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Grey stalked around the building to the Rover, a black cloud following him.
“Hey,” I called after him, not even bothering to try to keep up as I lit another cigarette, coughing on the acrid taste of cocaine dripping down the back of my throat. “You still have that shit on all our phones, right? The tracking shit?”
He stopped, spinning on his heel, his brows drawn in question. “Yeah, why?”
“Corvus isn’t going to the crossroads. He’s lying.”
“What?”
“Something’s up and we’re going to find out what.”
“This is a waste of time,”I grunted, shoving my phone into Rook’s hands as I settled into the driver’s seat. “We need to be trying to track this motherfucker.”
“We might not have to,” Rook answered, closing the passenger side door, his hand shaky as he swiped his way into my phone and I started the engine.
I frowned. “What do you mean?”
“Think about it. We know Ghost’s stalker wants us out of the picture. If I was him, I’d want to get each of us alone. And he has the perfect bait to make that happen.”
“Corvus wouldn’t be so stupid.”
Rook lifted a brow at me, challenging me to reconsider my response. “If this bastard threatened Ava Jade, you’re telling me you wouldn’t do whatever the fuck he said,includinglying to us or going off on your own?”
My chest burned. I’d already done exactly that.
“Exactly,” Rook sighed. “Now how the hell do I work this tracking app?”
I snatched the phone back, flicking to the app and keying in all the credentials to activate it before passing it back.
Rook zoomed into the map, finding the little blue dot that showed Corvus’ location. He grinned.
“He’s not going to the crossroads. He took a left on Compton.”
What? “What’s out that way?”
Rook shrugged, letting out a shuddering sigh. “Not much. A couple hotels. Restaurants.”
He looked rough, I realized. Way rougher than I’d seen him look in a long time. Losing AJ, not sleeping, and all this shit with the Kings seemed to be getting to him. It was about time something did, but I hated seeing him like this. I selfishly wished he’d go back to being his aloof self, without a care, with all of the confidence that no one stood a chance against us. That we would get her back. Easy as fucking cake.
This Rook was a harder pill to swallow, and his anxiety only fed my own.
“Hey, you good, Brother?”
Rook narrowed his black eyes on me quickly before flitting them away, letting them go dead. “Just drive, Grey. We need to catch up with Corv.”
Rook directed me through the streets of Thorn Valley as we slowly tailed Corvus across the city.
If this was a waste of time…
I inhaled deeply through my nose to settle the quake in my stomach. Unwound the taut muscle wrapping my arms like cords about to snap.
I had him.I had him,and I fucking lost him.
Anything that happened to AJ from here on out happened purely because of my inability to do the one fucking thing I did best.
“You’re going to break it off if you don’t let up,” Rook said, smoking a cigarette out the window, gesturing with the burning red tip toward my grip on the steering wheel.
I didn’t even bother trying to relax, gritting my teeth behind the wall of my lips, willing him to shut up so I could try to calm down.
