What if he followed me? What if now he’s making his move, when no one knows where I am—
BANG.
The door bursts open. Splinters fly. I scream and swing the broom, but strong hands catch it like it’s nothing. A yank, and it’s gone. I run toward the bathroom, another scream tearing out of me, but fingers tangle in my hair, and I’m slammed against a solid chest.
A soft sting blooms at my neck, and a hand covers my mouth.
“You thought you could run from me, trouble?”
Flynn.
Everything goes dark.
Chapter Fifteen
Flynn
Two hours before
“Where is she?” I ask Kaden as I hang up with Declan. I told him everything—the fire, the messages, the chance that it was her stalker, not an accident and not the Consortium.
He was worried, furious. Told me to keep her safe until he and Viviana could get here. I agreed, for now. But I need to be near her. She’s not leaving my sight again.
“Bathroom,” Kaden answers. It takes me a second to notice her phone on the table, but not her bag.
“That little menace.”
I stride to the bathroom and twist the handle. Locked. My jaw tightens. One hard kick and the door cracks open. The woman behind the counter rushes toward me, but Kaden stops her with a quiet threat.
The window’s open. Rain pours in, pooling on the tiles.
Fuck.
I turn on him, heat crawling up my neck. He knew she’d bolt, and he let her.
“Kaden, whatthe hell?”
He grins. “I know you love to hunt.”
He’s not wrong, but the thought of her out there withhimmakes my pulse slip out of rhythm.
I pull my phone from my pocket and open the tracker app. A single red dot glows on the screen.
“She left her phone—” Kaden starts, confused.
“The camera and the computer both have trackers,” I cut in.
He lets out a dark laugh. “She took the camera with her.”
“She did,” I answer, already moving toward the SUV.
Declan picks up on the second ring.
“I need your permission,” I say. Kaden glances over, quiet.
“You never need my permission, brother.” Declan’s voice is low, and I hear Viviana in the background asking what’s happening.
“I do for what I’m about to do.”
