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Unknown Number: Correct. Wish I knew, I don’t. It’s down to your team there, Savage.
Jonah: We’ll get it.
Unknown Number: See you soon then.
A smile spread over my face as I stowed my phone away, hope blossoming.
It was almost time.
I hated sitting on my hands and that was all I’d been doing for the last few days, all I’d been able to fucking well do, while the man I loved more than fucking life itself was being tortured to within an inch of his life, where he was being broken into pieces by those sadistic motherfuckers.
“Good news then,” Caleb commented, reading my expression.
I nodded. “Scourge got our message. He’s on his way. Tomorrow night.”
“Good. I’m almost there.”
A roar came from outside, making the both of us tense.
“The same can’t be said for Killian, apparently,” he said.
“Revenant’s still stonewalling him.”
“That could actually be looked at as a good thing.”
“How? Because he hates us and blames us for killing his daughter?”
“No, because if she was really dead, he wouldn’t hold back. He certainly wouldn’t be able to ignore the provocation of the messages that Killian’s been sending him. You’d feel that blame blazing down like hellfire upon you, first through the messages, then likely in person.”
He made a good point.
A very good point.
Revenant wouldn’t hold back. Even he wouldn’t be able to exercise rational thought if his little girl had really died in that explosion a few days ago.
“He has her then,” I mused aloud.
“I don’t know about that, but we can definitely infer that she’s still alive, based off his reaction—or lack thereof.”
Relief like I hadn’t felt for days rolled over me.
I’d been burying both what had happened to her and Asher being taken, just to get through this, to march on and do what needed to be done.
But as this hit, I couldn’t stop emotion from clogging my throat.
Caleb grasped my hand, giving it a squeeze, drawing my gaze to his, and making our eyes lock in the process. “Glad I’m here now?”
The weird and intense-as-fuck moment between us was interrupted and blown to hell by Killian storming in through the back door.
“This motherfucker!” he yelled. “This takes ghosting to a whole other level! Jesus fuck!”
I pulled from Caleb and went to him. “Caleb checked and the number Asher had for Revenant is still active, those messages are going through.”
“I know! That’s what makes it all the more fucked-up and infuriating!”
“No, Kill,” I said, laying my hand on his shoulder. His gaze snapped to mine at the gesture and he read my expression, and it was enough to pull him up short, so I could explain, “If he believed Aurora had actually died, he’d make it known like a beast, he wouldn’t be able to resist responding in the worst fucking ways. And, more than even that, if he didn’t already know where she was and that she was safe, he’d been all over us demanding any shred of intel we had so he could use everything possible to track her down.”
“He… yeah. He would. Then she’s… she’s really—”
