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ONE
London
“Tell her…” Colt croaked in my ear, his voice lifeless and strange. “Tell her I lo—”
Then the line went dead.
The.
Line.
Went.
Dead.
“Colt?” My pulse boomed as I called.
But there was no answer from my son.
Just an emptiness from the phone that hit me like a bullet. Right in the middle of my goddamn chest.
“Colt?” I repeated, then slowly pulled the phone away.
The screen was blank. No call. No Colt.
“Where the fuck is he?” Carven barked, stepping closer. His eyes were wild and his skin gray. Colt was the only one who made Carven look like that. The only one who’d—break him.
I killed her…I killed Ophelia.
I shook my head as Colt’s words returned. “Fuck…FUCK!” The hallway inside the house swayed. “We have to go.” My voice was not my own, sounding distant. “We have to go right FUCKING NOW!”
Fear punched through me as I took a step, then another. Then pushed into a run, before I picked up pace, slamming my hand against the end of the hallway to catapult me toward the rear of the house.
Footsteps pounded in unison. They were a step behind, racing as I dug into my pocket and punched my way through the door.
I killed Ophelia.
The words slammed into me as I stabbed the button and unlocked the Audi. Agony ripped through my shoulder. I didn’t have time to think about the bullet still lodged in it. A remnant from the shoot out in front of the restaurant. I ignored the pain and everything else as I yanked open the door and climbed in.
Bang.
Bang.
“Talk to us!” Vivienne yanked her seatbelt down.
“He killed her.” I stabbed the button and started the engine. “He fucking killed her!”
My mind raced as I shoved the car into gear and punched the accelerator, spinning the wheels before they caught traction. I slammed forward against the wheel as we reversed back down the drive behind the house and hit the street with a brutal jolt.
I ground my teeth, swallowing the agony, using that cold, cutting pain to hold on instead.
“He…killed her?” Carven murmured, glancing my way.
Fuck…
His blue eyes looked almost black under the streetlights as I shifted gears and drove the accelerator all the way to the floor, working the gears as we took a corner and raced toward the city.
I couldn’t answer. Because all I could hear was those hollow fucking words in my head.
