I’m chasing the one thing I can’t lose.The one thing I’d burn the whole damned world down to protect.
I think of Dani’s note—Don’t worry about me.I will be fine.I meant it when I said I love you.She wrote it to reassure me, to anchor me.
Instead, it spurred me on.
The thought of her choosing to walk into a house to trade her body for a child’s safety makes something in my chest squeeze.
I try Robin again.It goes straight to voicemail this time.Her phone’s either dead or off.I leave nothing.No time.I queue up Falcon and stare at the contact a second.He’ll demand to come.
No.
Not yet.
Still no cops on the road.No one coming up behind me with a siren.Only a house and a woman who wroteI love youlike she was leaving a light on.
I ram my foot to the floor and keep going.
