Adrian.
Twenty minutes felt like a lifetime.
I rushed out of the hotel like my leg was on fire, speeding down to my car.
My life hung in the balance, and… let me check my watch… eighteen minutes is all it's going to take to ruin everything I have built, everything I have done to put my reputation back together.
It was in my thoughts to call their bluff.
I rarely reacted to threats. It was a form of manipulation that I enjoyed using, but coming from people, it didn't matter that much.
But he had backed it up enough for me to know that whoever it was did not mess around.
I was stuck with the stress of keeping up with the time. I was familiar with people like the one who had just called to threaten me. If there was anything, they kept to time.
I was recognized as soon as
