Ben woke to the sound of the cell phone, unsure for a moment where he was even though it was his second day at the safe house. Once he got oriented, he answered the call. It was Zach, telling him in no uncertain terms to meet him in his office on the third floor of the Vanguard building at nine sharp.
“Back to being bossy, again,” Ben muttered after Zach ended the call. He had hung up his new shirts and jeans the previous afternoon, and put the T-shirts and underwear in the dresser drawer. After using the bathroom, he got dressed.
“I’m a whole new man,” he said when he looked in the mirror. “Relatively speaking anyway.”
He ate breakfast and then used his phone to find out which bus would take him to his destination. He was about to leave when his phone rang. “I’m downstairs,” Zach said
