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I snapped my gaze to his as fear punched through me. “Don’t say that.” I clenched my jaw. “Don’t you dare say that.”If you knew…if you only fucking knew…
We tore through the house, turning at the kitchen to take us to the massive six-bay garage. Silver and black gleamed when Nick flicked on the lights. I instantly narrowed in on the empty space, and so did Nick.
“Shit,” he muttered.
Shit…shit…shit…
“What if they took him?” I whispered, staring at that empty space. “What if they…”
Nick grabbed his phone, pressed a button, and held it to his ear. “Yeah, this is Nick. The car that left this morning, where was it going?” The guards…that’s who he was calling. It had to be. “Yeah, Ben sent him…and he didn’t say where? He didn’t tell you anything?”
Nick’s voice grew colder and darker the longer he spoke. T paced the garage between the black Maserati and the sleek silver Audi.
“Yeah. Thanks,” Nick replied, and ended the call. “The guard said Ben sent him somewhere.”
“Ben?” I whispered looking from Nick to T. “Why would he send Caleb? I didn’t think he knew him that well?”
Tobias stopped pacing, staring at the floor. “Neither did I.”
“So, we call Ben,” Nick decided. “And we ask him what the hell is going on.”
Something slithered along my spine at the words.
Something that didn’t feel right.
A gnawing…an aching.
A remnant of thoughts from moments ago.
What did Ben want with Caleb?
Nick had grabbed his phone, his finger hovering over the button, when the garage door jerked, then slowly rose. I flinched at the movement, watching the silver Mercedes ease toward us.
“I’ll fucking kill him,” Tobias muttered under his breath as Caleb pulled in and switched off the engine.
Nick was the first to move, striding across the space as Caleb got out. He grabbed his brother by the shirt and shoved him back against the car.“Where the fuck were you?”
But Caleb didn’t answer.
He was back to that cold, stony stare, the one I knew so well. One glance my way and my stomach dropped like a stone.
“Answer us, C,” Tobias warned, his hands in fists at his sides. “Answer us right fucking now.”
“I came back, didn’t I?” Caleb answered.
At first, I didn’t understand what he meant…until it hit me. He came back, and if he came back, then he went…
“You went there? To thatfucking place?”Nick snarled, shoving Caleb back.
Only, he was pressed against the car, leaving Nick to be the one to create the distance. He took a step backwards. “Did you make a deal, is that it? Did you make a fucking deal?”
Pain cut through Caleb’s stare. “No, and I never went to The Order.”
“Then if you didn’t go to the compound,” Nick countered. “Where did you go?”
Caleb glanced my way once more, and that sinking feeling carried me down as he answered. “I went to find Killion.”
Tobias stiffened. Nick went still. “Why?” He took a small step toward his brother. “Why go there…and why fucking go there on your own?”
