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I ignore him. “What have you been up to here? Hmm?”
He leans in, pulling the key Farrow gave me out of my pocket.
“Hunter…”
“Go home,” he whispers. “Killer.”
My heart flutters in my chest.Killer.People called me that when I was a kid because I was always racing. Skates, bicycles, dirt bikes, then my car, my motorcycle…
I never found it cute. I found it condescending to give a girl a pet name for doing what racers do. They go fast. It was like it was all so cute. Me trying to drive.
But he says it differently. It sounded like an endearment because it was proof that he remembered.
I lean in. “You can’t make me leave.”
Amusement dances behind his eyes, and he takes out his phone, hitting the screen with his thumb a few times.
He holds it to his ear, and I hear it ring as he stares at me.
“Hunter,” the voice on the other end says.
Kade.
I go still, hearing his twin’s voice.
“Why don’t you come and get her?” Hunter asks him. “She doesn’t belong here.”
What?
“Zero-one Knock Hill,” he tells his brother.
I start to shake my head but stop. I’m not ready to go home.
And despite the hardness in my heart, my eyes well with tears as I whisper, “You don’t get to decide where I belong. Neither of you.”
My chin trembles, and I lock my jaw to still it.
I roll my wrists inside the rope.
“I’ve got a better idea,” Kade replies. “How about we fight for her? Whoever wins gets to take her.”
Hunter plants his hand over my head, against the beam, boring down into me with his eyes. “Just like when we were ten?” he says to Kade. “You’re still so sure of yourself.”
“Yeah.” Kade’s tone is final. “I know I’m better. Just like when we were ten.”
I’m able to slip my thumb inside the binding. I pull, working it farther and farther off my hand.
“And if I win, you’re fine with her staying here?” Hunter asks him. “With me?”
“You won’t win.”
Kade doesn’t want me home. If he did, he would’ve called.
If he did, he would’ve just come.
Hunter knows that. He wants to make sure I do too.
“Let’s meet,” he says. “Have it out. I’m fucking dying to see you, little brother.”
