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Luna
“Idon’t know. That’s all he said.” My driver pulled onto Lakeshore Drive, the city skyline appearing taller.
My driver’s eyes tightened when looking in the rearview mirror, but I thought nothing of it.
“Listen, ninety percent of the reason I hate this guy is because he’s not good enough for you,” Sean said.
“And the other ten percent?”
“What’s not to hate about a billionaire who drives a car the rest of us only dream of?”
I smiled.
I felt like a traitor answering Sean’s phone call when I had suspected he might be the Vigilante. Especially since the more I thought about it, the less likely it seemed.
In fact, now that I was no longer panicking about it, I didn’t think anyone in my life was the Vigilante. What the hell was I thinking, sending that email to the mayor, telling him I suspected the Vigilante was someone I knew? I could’ve just triggered an investigation that would put an innocent person behind bars, someone that I cared about.
I, of all people, should have known better after what happened with my dad. I’d been reckless, putting the people I cared about in danger of becoming another innocent person charged with a crime they didn’t commit. When I met with Mayor Kepler later today, I needed to backpedal.
Fast.
And hope to the Lord it would work. Because out of all the people that they might home in on, my dad’s friend and old cellmate, Rodney, was most at risk of being targeted by an investigation. He was a convicted felon with a grudge, who had been released from prison shortly before the attacks started.
The chances of him being wrongfully suspected were high.
And I was ashamed of myself for putting him, or anyone else, in that position.
“So, as much as it pains me to say this,” Sean said, bringing me back to the conversation at hand, “is it possible you’re freaking out because of your trust issues?”
“You didn’t see the look on his face. I think whatever he’s about to tell me is going to be something very bad.”
“You’re scared he’s going to let you down,” Sean surmised.
“I’m scared of getting my heart broken.”
I heard Sean’s drawn-out sigh.
“Do you have any idea what it could be?” he asked.
My stomach clenched. The truth was, I did have a gut feeling. But I couldn’t say it out loud: that Hunter had his private investigator looking into my dad’s case and might have come back with something damning. Something that might even prove my father’s guilt.
It was unfathomable that my father might actually be guilty.
My whole world as I knew it would be rewritten. Hunter knew I’d never be able to cope with it, and he probably knew it had the power to bring down our relationship before it even started. That was why he wasn’t going to rush the conversation.
But that couldn’t be it. It’d be too painful.
I glanced at the three bodyguards in my sedan—the driver, the one in the passenger seat, and one back here with me. I turned away from them all and covered my hand over my mouth as I whispered into the phone.
“Maybe he’s fathered a dozen secret babies.”
Sean chuckled.
“Luna, this guy has been in the spotlight since he was a kid. News organizations, bloggers…everybody under the sun has researched this guy—even private investigators trying to help reporters unearth a scandalous story to help sell papers. And in the process, any hidden skeletons have been dug up and are probably already in online articles.”
That’s right.I sat up straighter.
“You researched H…” I cleared my throat. “When you were looking into the…” Lockwood case. “So, you read about him. What were some of the things that came out?”
