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“What do you mean?” She starts to pace. “How? Is he okay?”
My heart hammers in my chest, then she glances at me, stopping in her tracks. And I know.
I know something’s happened to him by the way her eyes cloud over.
“Oh my god.”
I jump up, the throw blanket falling to the floor as I get in her face. “What?” I say as she turns away. “Rayne, is it Dante?”
She ignores me. “Okay…alright…are you sure?” She listens then hangs up.
Her eyes are watering when she turns to me and her nose has gone pink.
“Don’t say it,” I whisper.
She comes towards me, still clutching her phone. “It’s Dante,” she says, her bottom lip quivering. “He’s been shot…”
“Oh my god, no!” I cry. “No, no, no!”
She holds me by the shoulders as I struggle against her. “He’s okay,” she says quickly as I try to assess her face, looking for clues that she’s lying. “He’s going to be okay.”
“Please,” I gasp. “Is he really…is he really going to be okay?”
She nods. “Angelo said he was shot in the shoulder, and he’s with the doctor. He wants us to wait here…”
“No!” I stammer. “I’m going to him, Rayne. You can’t stop me. I’m going!”
My stomach recoils, and all of my fears come rushing in again, making me feel light-headed.
“Breathe!” Rayne tells me, sitting me down on the couch. “It’s going to be okay. His wound isn’t life-threatening, he’s fine.”
“I need to go to him,” I plead, tugging on her hoodie. “Please, Rayne!”
She nods, her smile soft. “I’ll have Angelo get us a car.”
Every thought, every fear, every trauma I’ve ever had hits me all at once.
I can’t lose this man.
No matter how non-threatening his injuries are, it doesn't matter. Someone hurt him.
Someone shot him, and he could have been killed.
Breathe,I remind myself.You can get through this.
I need to be with him, to hold him in my arms once more.
I won’t rest until I know he’s safe.
It’s my turn now.
23
DANTE
“What the fuckare you doing here?” I ask Sage’s ex-boyfriend.
The man who fucked her up and who I thought Angelo and Fynn dealt with. But here he is, in the flesh, being held by Garrett and Darko.
