Chapter 61:
The bar's still cheering.
Kael's not.
He's got his phone back in his pocket and his eyes on the door and he's already moving.
"Jax. Dutch. With me." He stops at my chair. "Elara. You stay here."
"Kael—"
"Stay here. Miss Ada's got a shotgun behind the counter and Dutch's boy is outside." He's already at the door. "I'll call you in twenty minutes."
"Kael."
He stops.
"Twenty minutes," he says. "I promise."
And then he's gone.
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Twenty minutes is the longest twenty minutes of my life.
I sit at the bar with a cup of coffee and I watch the door.
Miss Ada's behind the counter with her shotgun. Betty's next to me with her phone in her hand. Cal's by the window with his hands in his pockets.
At fifteen minutes, my phone rings.
"Kael."
"They picked up Margaret Sterling
