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Before he can say anything though, one of the men in the front calls attention to a car behind us. The man in the passenger seat looks back and nods his head.
“Hey boss,” he says. “I think we’re being followed.”
Hades’ head snaps around to look out the back window. His hawk-like gaze zeros in on the white SUV just behind us. He straightens and shakes his head.
“If they are intending to follow us, they are not being very subtle. Which means that we should be prepared for anything. Speed up, lose them if ye can.”
As soon as he says it, the security guard presses on the gas pedal and the entire vehicle lurches forward. I can feel the sheer velocity that we’re traveling at all the way down into my bones.
My heart thumps in my chest but honestly there are so many things going on that I can’t even pay attention to it right now. Putting my hands over my stomach protectively, I swallow. My input isn’t really asked for in this space. All that’s required of me is being as quiet as possible and staying somewhat calm.
Hades is really leading the charge here, trying to figure out if the white SUV is really following us.
The driver does a quick right turn, which has me clenching at the hand rest with evident terror. The white SUV makes the same last-minute decision that we did, squealing its tires as it follows us down the street.
Hades murmurs a curse under his breath. “Fuck. They are definitely following us.”
“What do you want me to do?” the driver asks.
“Evasive maneuvers. Do whatever ye have to do in order to lose them. The last thing that we want right now is a confrontation. Not while Penny is in the car.”
I whip my head around, staring at the white SUV that is right on our tail. The windshield is tinted, but I can still make out two figures behind the class.
I feel my heart speed up as I try to decide if I recognize them. I could be wrong obviously, but it looks to me like Constantine and my father, Ben.
“Hades,” I say, pointing at the car. “Could that be Constantine?”
He looks again and his gaze tightens. He nods tightly. “It could be. It looks like him, but I can’t be sure.”
I lick my lips nervously. I feel flushed, feverish almost.
“The other man could be my father.”
Hades starts, looking back. “Fuck,” he says. “Can we go faster?”
“I’ll try, sir.”
What on earth is my father doing here? I know that my mother and father liked Constantine even after I told them about some of the abuse allegations. That was honestly the beginning of the end of my relationship with my family. But to be here in Paris, in the company of the man that has already tried to kill me once?
That’s a whole new low for my father. What can he possibly hope to gain from being here right now?
I’m already carrying Hades’s child. The fact has obviously not escaped Constantine. From the threatening letter in my luggage, my parents knew it too.
So again, I have to ask myself: what could they hope the outcome would be?
I honestly can’t imagine, and the fact makes me sick.
Hades slides over in the car, sitting next to me. He puts his arm on my belly, shielding me as well as possible. I grip his hands and stare straight ahead, trying to figure out what the game plan could be.
I don’t see any possibility of a confrontation with Constantine and my dad that doesn’t end with one of them trying to drag me back to Louisiana. I look up at Hades, my thoughts snarling.
“It’s going to be okay,” he says. He looks at me, his eyes pinning me in place. “Ye know that, right? No matter what, we are going to be together.”
I nod slowly. “I want to say I’m not afraid but…” I trail off.
Hades nods. As he begins to speak again, the whole car suddenly lurches forward, rammed by the white vehicle right behind us. I let out a strangled gasp as I’m thrown forward, bracing myself on the seat in front of me.
Hades growls low in his throat. He feels dangerous just now, like he cannot be contained. His eyes flash with fury and I shiver, even knowing that that emotion is reserved for our enemies.
