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I switched my phone out of airplane mode while I waited in line at a Starbucks and was instantly bombarded with missed calls and texts.
There were a couple of calls from Joriel, a bunch of texts from my family, and it looked like Kylie had been calling every fifteen minutes for the past two hours.
There was nothing from Nate. Not a single call or text.
My heart twisted in my chest. He had to know I was gone by now. Was he mad at me for leaving, or was he trying to give me space like I’d told him I wanted?
I was staring at the phone. I wanted to call him, but I was also terrified of what he’d say. What if he didn’t pick up?
The phone started ringing in my hand. Kylie again.
“Are you okay?” I answered.
“AmIokay? You’re the one who disappeared. Where the hell are you?”
I closed my eyes, trying to keep my emotions at bay. She sounded okay and not like she’d been hurt or captured by demons. “Where are you right now?” I asked, stepping out of the Starbucks line. Coffee could wait.
“Sierra, what is going on? Samuel said you hopped on a plane.”
“It’s complicated.”
“I think I can follow, just make sure you use small words,” she said dryly.
I winced. “Sorry. Please just tell me where you are right now?”
“I’m home. And I’m not forgiving you until you explain and tell me whereyouare.”
“He threatened you,” I whispered.
“Who did?”
“I’m not sure exactly who or what he is, but he said he’d take you if I didn’t leave.” I heard her Jeep roar to life in the background. “Are you driving?” Kylie normally didn’t talk on the phone while driving.
“No, Sam’s driving.”
My eyebrows flew up my forehead. “Sam?” She was on a nickname basis with the scarier of Nate’s angel brothers? And why was he driving her car?
“Look, you don’t get to judge my choices right now. I’m not the one who flew to God knows where without leaving so much as a note.”
She had a point.
“I was trying to protect you,” I said.
“That’s what the three angels we live with are for.”
“They weren’t with you.” It sounded like a weak argument even to me, but it had felt like a valid point at the time I got on the plane.
“So you just did what you were told? God, Sierra. Where are you now?”
“Arlington County,” I whispered, wrapping my free arm around myself. I suddenly felt very alone and small in the middle of an unfamiliar airport in a state I’d never been to.
“Come home,” she said. “Get on a plane and get back here. Nate’s going crazy.”
My chest tightened. “He should just let me go,” I whispered. “I’m not good for him. He needs to be with someone of his own kind, someone he doesn’t have to risk his life to be with.”
“But he wantsyou.”
“That’s the problem.”
