J.P - I don’t think I can
Huntrix - I mean it. I need to see you and I can’t wait.
J.P - It’s too risky
Huntrix - I’m on my way.
My eyes widen at his reply, if he comes here now he’ll see Vlad and the others and I don’t know how the fuck they will take that.
“What’s wrong, Prosecutor?” Vlad asks.
I blurt it out before I can think better of it. “Hunter’s on his way over.” For a solid second it’s silent. Then they all begin shouting and pacing the living room, making my home feel so fucking small with their hulking frames taking up most of the space. When they all suddenly stop pacing, then turn to look at me with dark looks in their eyes, I swallow audibly and press further into the sofa.
“Here’s how this is going to play out,” Dimitri grits out in a cold tone.
“Do as we say and we’ll reward that fucking cunt.” Vlad’s sinister promise has me instantly sitting up straight and hanging onto their every word.
“Fuck this up and you won’t make it to the trial. You and I both know my threats aren’t empty, you have the proof in those folders.” Vegah’s threat is like a bucket of ice water being tossed over my head.
I’m utterly fucked in the head. I shouldn’t be hot and ready for them, yet here I am, practically frothing at the mouth like a dirty little whore.
My nerves are frayed. I’m on edge. Vegah hid their car in my garage so Hunter wouldn’t spot it when he pulled up. The threeof them are currently hiding out in my bedroom. Hunter doesn’t even get a chance to knock on the door before I yank it open and quickly usher him inside the house.
He stares down at me with a confused look. “Chill out, J. I wasn’t followed.” He mistakes my worry over him being here. I don’t care if he was followed, I'm more worried that I’m about to witness a murder in my own house if he answers any of the questions they have told me to ask wrong.
Hunter looks nothing like his brother. He has more of a boyish charm about him. I know Hunter is a loose unit and doesn’t conform to rules, the typical youngest of the family sort. Spoiled and given whatever he wanted. The fact he is going against the person who has served him everything he has ever wanted on agold platterastounds me. It did shock me when I first met him that someone who appears as selfish as he does actually cares about his brother and uncle, and doesn’t want them to go down for something his dad did.
“Where were you?” he asks.
“Huh?”
“Where did you have to go for your emergency?” I wave him off.
“Don’t worry about that. What was so urgent you had to come here?”
“What’s up with you? You’ve never minded me dropping by before now. You seem… off.”
I inhale and force myself to relax, if I spook him then I lose everything I have worked for, and risk having to deal with the grown ass men hiding in my room, losing their shit.
“Sorry, it’s just the case that is wearing me down.”
He reaches out and places a hand on my shoulder and smiles. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I get the feeling of their eyes on me. “We got this.”
“Yeah,” I breathe out, then step out of his hold and take a seat on the sofa. He claims a seat on the recliner.
“We might have a problem.”
“What is it?”
“My uncle, Dimitri and my brother have vanished.”
My brows bunch. “What do you mean vanished?”
He shrugs and runs a hand through his hair. “No idea. I asked Dad where they were. He swears he has no idea, but I just have this feeling that he knows and won’t tell me. I asked Courtney if he had heard from them, but he said he hadn’t. Probably doesn’t help that he had to get a new phone, thanks to dad smashing his old one in a fit of rage.” Vegah mentioned earlier that he had tried to contact Courtney when they thought I escaped theDollhousebut he got no response.
“Is he worried about them being gone because of the case?”
He shakes his head. “Nah, he says it will look like they tried to run. I have to find them, J.”
