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Lexie
“Don’tyou dare get in that car, Lincoln Hollingsworth.”
Beau held on to her brother with an iron grip. He was too powerful, easily sliding into the back of the dark car.
“They can’t arrest you without probable cause,” Teague said.
Somehow Lincoln managed to pull the door closed even with his hands behind his back.
“Lincoln!” Beau yanked on the door handle over and over. It was locked.
The agent slipped around them and into the driver’s seat.
He has no swagger.
I started. How had Lincoln’s vocabulary invaded my brain?
Gently, I tugged on Eric’s elbow.
“Don’t move the van,” he said. “Then that guy can’t take him away.”
My nose tingled.
Not now, Lexie.
My brother was the light of my life. He made this world brighter, more fun, and he never let me get down for too long. Some people thought he didn’t understand the way things worked.
I’d learned if everyone saw through the lens he did, we’d all be better off.
“Then I could go to jail for obstruction,” I said quietly.
“He’s right,” Teague said. “Please don’t move it. At least not until I can get someone down here to help us.”
For every bit of jerk Lincoln was, Teague was a straight-up decent guy. I didn’t want to get involved in their problems, but I’d stepped right in the middle of them.
Beau grabbed my hand. “Please, Lexie.”
We’d been friends since I’d been pretending to get my degree at NYU. I hadn’t been able to say no to her back then. Almost twenty years later and I still couldn’t.
The hum of the car window lowering interrupted the sounds of the city. “Move.”
I pretended to dig in the pockets of my dress. “I can’t find my keys,” I called.
Beau’s luminous eyes lit. Thank you, she mouthed.
“You have thirty seconds, or I’m hauling you in too,” the agent said.
My nerves spiked. I couldn’t be arrested. Eric was okay on his own for limited amounts of time, but I never left him.
Why was I inserting us into a situation we needed no part of?
“I must’ve dropped them on the street. Help me look.”
The agent didn’t move, but everyone else searched like it was an Easter egg hunt and the eggs were filled with gold.
Beau crouched down as if she were looking under the front end of the blocked SUV. I joined her.
“Give them to me,” she whispered.
