Jake pulled off Highway 60 and once he came upon Mulberry, he turned and faced north. Now it was only a matter of time before he arrived in Lakeland. His stomach knotted up. It had been over a year since he left. After the killings, he didn’t want to stay in the same town where Noah had been bludgeoned, where Anton had been shot and killed, and where he took a bullet as the intended victim. All because of Ivan Petrov. He knew Xavier was right. That Kyle’s killer was after him. In the dark sunglasses and in Jake’s suit, Kyle could easily have been mistaken for him. He looked at the cell. Xavier hadn’t called him back after he called earlier and left a message.
The bumper-to-bumper traffic on Florida Avenue slowed Jake’s progress to get to Elena’s new house. She had texted him their address
