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“Come with me. I’ll drive.”
He turns and starts walking away, his dog close at his heels.
“It’s really okay.”
“Come along,” he says, not unkindly.
I have to run to catch up with him. Conor pads along at his side. He doesn’t look like a killer dog anymore. He looks sweet, almost.
Nothing weirder has ever happened to me in my entire life.
As we’re walking—as he’s walking, and I’m half-jogging—I stick out my hand to him.
“Lilith Hayes.” I have to say something, or I’m going to freak out. “Everyone calls me Lily.”
He takes my hand and shakes it. A strange, subtle pressure zings up my arm and almost pops my ears. “Hades.”
I let out a completely unhinged laugh and drop his hand. “Is that a code name or something? An alias?”
“No.”
“Oh. Sorry.”
Hades laughs, mostly to himself. It sounds bewildered. “What did you say your fiancé’s name was?”
“I didn’t say. And it’s Jameson.”
“Jameson…Hill?”
My heart again, then restarts. “Yes?”
He says something that sounds likewhy is it always him?then takes his phone out and taps at the screen.
It rings loud and clear. He must have it on speaker.
“What do you want, motherfucker? I have a baby. I’m not coming over to lose a card game just so you can feel better about yourself.”
Wait.
That’s—
“Mason,” Hades says. “I’d love to kick your ass at cards, but there’s a more pressing situation.”
11
JAMESON
Everything hurts.
I’m not a doctor—not enough time between being a criminal mastermind and getting my JD, ha fucking ha—but I’m fairly certain that one of those motherfuckers just missed breaking a rib and another one just missed driving the steel toe of his boot into a kidney.
Couple of close calls.
They didn’t miss my face, though, so at least that’s something.
The lights in the small-town jail are like hellfire. I don’t think I’ve been booked here before, but I can’t tell. My head throbs at one temple and stabs at the other. I have a split lip and—no. My jaw isn’t broken, butfuck.
My main concern is getting back to Lily. That’s top of the list.
