Six Months Later
Gui
If this wasn’t an emergency, I would kill Leo.
I was leaving the building, getting into my car to go surprise Hilary in L.A., when Leo called, saying there was an emergency at Hannah’s ranch and I had to go right now. Damn, didn’t he know it was Valentine’s Day? My first one with an actual girlfriend? And that she had classes until late this evening and couldn’t come to Santa Barbara so I was going down there to see her?
I cursed some more as I sped down the road, hoping that the extra acceleration would help get me to the ranch fast, so I could help with whatever emergency it was, and then go to L.A. equally fast.
I turned my Jeep onto the ranch’s entry road and almost hit the brakes.
“What the …?”
Leo’s SUV wasn’t here, nor was Hannah’s car. But Hilary’s car w
