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Struggling.
“Fuck, what’s happened?” I mused aloud as I broke from Caleb and met Kill halfway, giving him my shoulder and helping him along. “Kill? What was that? Who was in that car?”
“My mom.”
“Your… what?”
“It’s a long fucking story.” His eyes went wild, panic taking him over as he told me in a rush, “She said my father took Aurora for Carson. They raided Hexwood House. She’s… she’s in danger.”
“Asher got her out,” Caleb told him.
“We’re headed to them now, tracking him.”
I saw a little relief set in for him. But it wouldn’t tamper down any more until he laid eyes on her. Until she was in his arms, safe and sound, right where he needed her. Hell, right where we all needed her, needed each other.
He groaned as I helped him along, trying to pick up speed, Caleb at my other side, eyeing my phone screen.
“Sorry, J. She had me drugged. I wouldn’t go with her… not without Aurora, not without my brothers either.”
“It’s all right, I’ve got you, Pretty.”
“A hundred feet out,” Caleb murmured to himself, reading my screen.
The words had just left his mouth when a thunderous explosion pulled us up short, the sound reverberating through the deathly quiet backstreets.
“It’s coming from Asher’s location!” Caleb cried, bolting forward, leaving us in his wake.
“Shit, shit,” Kill uttered.
When we made it to the corner and turned down the dead-end street, I choked.
No. No. No.
There, at the far end, was a car torn apart and being ravaged all the further by merciless flames.
“Ash,” Killian choked as he took in the same thing that I was.
The make and model.
The flashy rims.
The license plate.
Asher’s car.
“Fuck me, no. This can’t… it can’t be real. It’s one of his smokescreens,” I choked. “It has to be.”
“Over here!”
I left Kill against the wall as I rushed over to Caleb calling out to us.
When I got there, he was crouched down and lifting something off the floor.
My blood ran cold when I saw that it was Asher’s bracelet.
“He wasn’t in the car,” Caleb said, gesturing to the scuff marks and the trail of blood leading away from the bracelet.
“He was dragged away.”
