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“Right!”
I give her a playful grin. “Are you ready to run?”
She kicks off her high heels before nodding.
I place Roman on his feet, and once he gains momentum, Rosalie and I go after him.
Every now and then, I check on Vincent while we follow Roman on his mission to explore every stone in the park.
This is nice.
Chapter 26
Alek
I’ve been in LA for three months, and it already feels like home. I love working with Viktor, and getting to stay busy helps keep the demons at bay.
But at night, they stream back in.
Driving away from the docks where a shipment of weapons came in, I stop at a red light.
“I don’t trust Brayden Kelly as far as I can throw the man,” Viktor mutters from the passenger seat.
We had a couple of meetings with the arms dealer over the past two months.
“Yeah, there’s something off about him,” I say as I watch the cars pass in front of us.
“My gut tells me he won’t deliver.”
“Your gut is probably right.”
When the light turns green, I drive down the street. I glance to the right, and my eyes lock on a woman who’s holding a toddler's hand.
The air wooshes from my lungs, and instantly my heart thunders in my chest.
Everleigh.
She disappears into a Starbucks.
“Alek!” Viktor snaps just in time to stop me from driving into the car in front of us. “Iisus Khristos.”
“Sorry.”
Sweat beads on my forehead as I focus on the road. Just because I am insane, it doesn’t mean I want Viktor to know that I’m now hallucinating.
Christ, am I going to start seeing her everywhere?
Is her ghost haunting me?
I feel Viktor side-eyeing me and apologize again. “I’m sorry. It won’t happen again.”
“It looks like you’ve seen a ghost,” he mutters.
I did.
“It’s nothing.”
The rest of the drive is quiet, and when I park the G-Wagon by Victor’s mansion, Rosalie comes out of the house.
