“Is this a call to tell me you are in a police cell and you need me to come bail you out?” Linda asked in her usual calm tone as soon as she answered the call.
Kade turned away from the window with the mocking clear blue sky view and stared at Aleah’s sleeping form on the bed for a beat before he answered. “No,” he gritted out through his teeth.
He was not in a police cell. He was in Aleah’s room at the beach house. But Kade knew this call could well have been made behind bars if his rational brain cells hadn’t kicked in when they did. But he didn’t need to worry his grandmother about that.
Kade closed his eyes for a second as the memory flashed in his head. Watching Aleah stumble out of the pool and be sick while he was still too far to hold her had been torture. Adrenaline had pumped
