CHAPTER 33
LUKE WOKE WITH the same headache that had dogged him for the past week. The fear of Black finding out about him and Emmy was still very real although he’d won a brief reprieve. Because when he’d risked going downstairs the day after Akari had her baby, Emmy had disappeared again, and this time, she’d taken Black with her.
Nate had been sitting at the kitchen counter when he found out. Black sent a text message saying Need some time to talk, back in a few days.
That was it.
Nate had read the message aloud, calmly set down his mug of coffee, then flung his phone across the table and put his head in his hands.
“Black’s taken a leaf out of Emmy’s book. She’s corrupted him.”
“They could probably do with a bit of space,” Carmen said, the voice of reason. “They’ve both been throu
