Page 11 of The Woman with the Warning

He was tall and fit in a well-tailored gray suit with black hair that had a hint of gray streaking through at the temples, amazing bone structure, and warm brown eyes framed in thick, enviable lashes.

Handsome.

Almost obnoxiously so.

“Angel, what—“ he started as his gaze moved from me to the cuff around my wrist.

“It’s an ambush,” I rushed out, watching his gaze flick back to me.

“What?”

“It’s an ambush. Warren is going to double-cross and kill you,” I told him, watching him tense. “What are you doing?” I gasped as he drew closer, making me look toward where Warren had disappeared to, wondering if he was watching.

“I have to get you out of here,” he said as I saw his comrades start to walk toward the direction where Warren had disappeared.

“No. You can’t. I can’t. Get out of here. They’re going to kill you,” I said, pointing toward his friends.

The man looked back at me, conflicted.

“Go!” I demanded, voice cracking.

Couldn’t he see?

This was his chance?

To get away?

To get everything I wished I could.

Why was he still standing there?

It was a gunshot that had him finally turning and running, leaving me to sit there, heartbeat slamming against my ribcage, watching as this man ran toward danger instead of away from it.

I tried not to feel guilt as the gunshots rang out.

I’d done everything I could do.

At personal risk to myself and my son.

Some awful part of me hoped that Warren wouldn’t come back, that his men wouldn’t. That I could get free, run to my son, and get us out of this mess.

But just as the hope was growing, I watched as Denny half-carried Warren back to the car, both their eyes panicked.

The guards… didn’t make it back.

Lord knows I didn’t mourn for their loss, but I did shoulder some of the guilt for it by warning the handsome stranger.

“God damn fucking slick Aurelio Grassi,” Denny ground out as he got behind the wheel, turned over the car, and peeled out of the lot of the docks.

Aurelio Grassi.

That was his name.

I hoped he was alive.

He seemed like a decent man.

I’d all but forgotten that such a thing existed.

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