I dropped everything, and Cross and I rushed back to find her at a house party drunk off her ass. The pills she supposedly took were in her purse. I didn’t talk to her for a month. Ignored all her calls and texts until I was ready to speak to her. Then, like always, I crawled back into bed with her because she pretended to understand me and care about me. She proved otherwise when she drugged my ass.
We leave my car in the parking garage of South Mason Towers and take the elevator up to the penthouse.
I knock on her door. “Lucy, open up,” I call out.
Nothing.
“Lucy,” I shout, pounding on it. “Open the fuck up.” I turn to face April. “She’s not going to answer. Let’s go.”
“No.” She grips my arm before I can head back to the elevator. “We came here to check on her, Grave. I’m not leavinguntil I make sure she’s okay.” She crosses her arms over her chest. “Knock on it again.”
Sighing, I pull out my key to her place. I don’t miss the snort that April gives me. This is what she wants and I’m tired of waiting. I want to spend my evening with April, so I’m going to move it along.
“Lucy,” I shout, entering with April right behind me.
The place looks trashed. Glasses knocked over on the floor. Pictures hanging crooked on the walls. She’s obviously had one of her parties, and the maids haven’t cleaned up yet.
I storm back to the bedroom and try to turn the door knob, but it’s locked. “Open this door, Lucy!”
She doesn’t respond.
I take a step back, then ram my shoulder into it, knocking it open.
April gasps. “Oh my God.”
Lucy is lying on her bed in nothing but a pair of underwear. She’s on her stomach, her arms and head hanging off the edge. “Lucy.” I run to the bed and flip her over, feeling her neck.
“Oh my God. Oh my God.” April’s voice grows frantic.
“She’s got a pulse,” I say, removing my cell from my pocket and tossing it to April. It falls to her feet. “Go to my contacts and call Dr. Lane.” He’s a doctor Titan uses for his Queens—the secret call girl service we run at Kingdom. He’ll get here the fastest. “Now,” I bark when she just stands there.
She jumps and picks up the phone as I lift Lucy into my arms, carrying her into the master bathroom.
“Come on, Lucy.” I bring her over to the toilet and shove my finger down her throat, trying to get whatever she swallowed out of her system.
I can hear April crying behind me while she relays our location to Dr. Lane.
“Lucy,” I shout. Her head falls back, and I shove her matted hair away from her slick face to see she’s really pale. I can hear the death rattle coming from her chest. “You’re not doing this,” I growl. “Not fucking like this!”
APRIL
I stand withmy back plastered to Lucy’s bedroom wall with a clear view into her bathroom. Both French doors are wide open. Grave sits on the bathroom floor with her in his lap. Just like that night I found him; she threw up on him. He shoved his fingers down her throat to make it happen. Never thought I’d be so happy to see someone vomit.
But she’s awake. I can hear her softly crying. She trembles in his arms.
“Grave,” a man calls out from the front door.
“In here.” My voice shakes.
An older man enters the bedroom, dressed in a button-down shirt and black slacks. He carries a suitcase in his right hand, but he’s not alone. A man wearing a Kingdom T-shirt and jeans is right behind him. I remember him from the night the Mason brothers sent men to Roses, looking for Ethan. It’s Grave’s brother, Bones. His angry blue eyes look me up and down before he dismisses me and makes his way into the bathroom.
“She’s coherent.” Grave talks to the doctor. “But she’s ingested too much.”
“What was it?” he asks Grave.
“I don’t know,” he growls.
My eyes dart around the room, and I spot the bottle on her nightstand. I pick it up and run into the bathroom. “Whatever was in here,” I rush out, holding it out to anyone who will take it. I recognize it from the video she sent Grave.
