It crosses my mind that I could use it as a weapon, but I don’t think I could attack them.Not if they aren’t really threatening me.I could defend myself, but I couldn’t be like whatever girl scarred Peter.Not yet, at least.Which means I need to keep this hidden so he doesn’t know what I have.
At least I’m less defenseless now, but not much closer to escape.But I’ll get there.
Chapter7
Risk Averse
Dante
It feels like I just passed out when banging on a door wakes me.My first instinct is to reach out and draw Sara against me, but my hand only finds cold sheets.
“Wake up or I’m going after him myself.”Drew’s voice gets me to sit up in my bed.
I scrub my hand down my face and sit on the edge of the bed for a moment.The dream I was having about Sara was so real.I honestly thought she’d be in my arms when I woke.The dream wasn’t even sexual.We were just lying in bed in each other’s arms, talking, laughing.
My chest aches at the reminder she’s not here.
The pounding starts again, and I realize Drew isn’t pounding on my door.Fuck.I go out into the hallway and grab Drew’s fist before he can bang on Wyatt’s door again.
He raises an eyebrow at me, but I release him and gesture to the door.
“Allow me.”
He nods.
I use the extra key and open Wyatt’s door.
“We haveSerendipity’s location,” Drew says, walking into Wyatt’s room and grabbing the covers to pull them off the bed.Wyatt isn’t there, just pillows.
I step into the room as Drew barges into the bathroom.He shakes his head as he comes out.No Wyatt.What the fuck?Did he go off on his own?
“Are you ready to go?”Wyatt walks in behind me and offers Drew a to-go coffee cup.
“Where were you?”Drew narrows his eyes but takes the coffee.
“Couldn’t sleep.Took a walk.Got the notification, so grabbed coffee so we’d be ready to go.”Wyatt shrugs but his whole demeanor is tense.
“What notification did you get?”I ask, pushing my hair out of my face.I haven’t even looked to see what time it is, but I’m sure my alarm will go off soon.
Drew takes the cup and walks out into the living room.“They’re docking at a port first thing in the morning.They radioed ahead to confirm a time.I have a private jet lined up to take us there.We should arrive right around when they finish going through customs.”
Tom.
They found him.A fresh surge of anger flows through me.His actions have put Sara through all this… for what?Wyatt told me last night he thinks it’s for Natasha.That Tom wanted her, but Daddy didn’t approve.
If this was all for a fling, it’ll take more than an hour in the boxing ring to settle this between us.
If Wyatt and Drew find Tom, then we’ll have the bargaining power to get Sara back.Our plan to rescue Sara isn’t simple and could be dangerous.Not just for Finn and me, but for Sara as well.Any of us could get hurt.
Do we need to risk her to save her if the guys bring back Tom?
Fuck.
“Should we go through with our plan to get Sara back or just wait to trade, I assume, his daughter for her?We don’t know what kind of people he’ll have guarding her or how they’ll be armed.It’s risky.She could get hurt.But if we’re going to have what Peter wants, then maybe a trade makes sense.”
“We’re going after Sara.”Finn comes up behind us.He’s already dressed in black and ready to go.“We can’t trust Peter to honor his deal.We can’t just give him Tom in exchange for Sara because we don’t know what he’ll do with him.Sara won’t let us.”
I press my lips together.He’s right, but Tom got himself into this mess, not Sara.
