LEO
One second Emily was gasping my name into the phone, the next….nothing. Just the wet slap of tires on rain-slick pavement and the low hum of my engine as I floored it through the city.
I drove like the devil was behind me instead of the other way around.
Jax’s voice crackled through the speaker on my dash. “I’m two blocks behind you. Scene’s already lit up on the hotel cams, somebody followed her into the alley. You want me to call the cops or handle it quietly?”
“Quietly,” I snarled. “I’m not losing her to a f*****g ambulance and a dozen reporters.”
I slammed the car into park before it fully stopped, and flung the door open. Rain hit my face like needles and my shoes splashed through puddles that smelled of piss and garbage.
There she was.
Collapsed behind a dumpster like a br
