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“Your father was killed before coming to Vegas was ever even a thought for me,” he said, holding my wrists to keep me still. “And I didnotcome here to do you any harm. Okay?”
“How the fuck would I know?” I asked, both of us glancing to the other side table as his phone rang.
Alicia.
“I need to get this,” he told me. “And then… we can talk.”
“Or we can talknow,” I countered and he pushed out a breath, clearly overwhelmed.
“Tati, please, you know she wouldn’t be calling me at this time if it wasn’t something pressing.”
Fuck.
Fuck!
“Take it,” I told him, snatching away. “And then you have some shit to answer for. You’re gonna tell meeverything.”
He ran his tongue over his lips, pushing out a sigh. “Okay.”
I shouldn’t have agreed.
That was so fucking stupid.
But I just…fuck… I needed a second to breathe.
He stepped out of the room, the phone already up to his ear as he moved down the hall in just his boxers, and I… could justscream.
What the hell was evenhappening?
I picked up the album again, my eyes going straight to the spiky vine of thorns circling my father’s arm. It had been there all along, hidden in the scales of that snake.
I shook my head, questioning everything I knew as I tried to make sense of it all.
And thenmyphone rang.
Alicia.
Dread swept through me as I dove for my phone, snatching it off the charger.
“Hello?”
“Where is Nyx?” Alicia asked immediately, sounding worried.
“He… was on the phone with you, I thought,” I answered, standing from the bed. I grabbed my gun from where he’d left it, balancing the phone against my ear as I moved into the hall to follow him.
“Yes, he was. He stepped out to your porch, he said, but then he heard something. The call dropped and I tried to call back, but he’s not answering.”
“What the fuck,” I muttered.
Not to her, just… into the ether.
I spent the next few minutes searching every inch of my house, walking outside to see where he could have possibly gotten off to.
His clothes were still in my living room and I found his phone smashed in my driveway.
Other than that… nothing.
“Tati, I need you to talk to me,” Alicia said. “What do you see?”
I shook my head like she could see me, staring into the dark from my empty front porch. “Nothing. He’s gone.”
The end... for now.
