Glass breaking.
Then chaos.
Chapter Twenty-One
Liam was pissed. At everyone.
He was angry at Cooper Han because the boy had waited so long to tell anyone about the code. It was only when someone he loved was threatened that he even dared come out to say a word. Though, Liam knew it counted that the teen had tried to correct his hesitance and had done so in the face of potential danger. So he couldn’t hold on to that anger too long.
Which worked out, because next he became angry at Price.
Once he had finished his conversation with Cooper, he had noticed his calls weren’t coming through or going out. That happened occasionally near the hospital and across a few other spots in town. Panic had risen through him in an instant, then anger came in swiftly on its heels once he finally spoke with Price, who explained what was going on with Blake.
Mr. Grant had changed his appointment time with Blake, and she had simply gone along with the flow.
Solo.
So then the anger at Price for letting her go had gone and attached to the stubborn woman who hadn’t waited for him.
She hadn’t even called him, only left a text saying where she was going. Nothing else.
At that point Liam had already been in the truck and heading over to the steel mill as fast as the wind.
Then he had gotten a call from Theo.
Normally, he would have sent the call to voicemail if he thought he was heading into danger and needed to focus, but the timing of the call was too coincidental.
Liam had answered on the second ring.
He didn’t have time to say hello. Theo was rattling off information fast.
“Sheriff Bennet is at the steel mill talking to Elijah Grant, Mr. Grant’s son, in his office. I think she was supposed to meet Mr. Grant instead, but something changed. Then she toldmeto callmydad and let him know that I had walked her in. Which I think she meant to call you and tell you.”
Liam’s anger had switched one more time.
Right onto Elijah Grant. The same man Cooper had just said had installed the code that everyone kept dying for.
“Find a way to let her know that Elijah is dangerous and then you both get out of there,” Liam said, not bothering with the backstory. “I’m a minute or so away from the mill.”
Bless him, Theo didn’t ask any questions. He said okay and then started moving fast on his side of the phone.
All at once, that noise stopped.
His whisper was the loudest Liam had ever heard.
“The man who you said attacked y’all at the Bennet house but got away. Was he tall and bald?”
Adrenaline skyrocketed from the tips of Liam’s toes all the way up to the ends of his hair.
“Yes.”
“Then I think he’s walking down the hallway and—and he has a gun!” The sound on Theo’s end of the call wasn’t still after that. He was all out yelling. “Second floor to the right. End of the hallway and—”
A loudclattervibrated through the phone and across the silence of the cab of the truck. Liam looked at his phone to see the call was still going. He heard what sounded like running in the background.
Theo had dropped his phone.
Liam cussed and pressed the gas pedal to the floorboard.
