He shook his head again, slower, almost so that I could register it better. “No. No one will know anything that happened to Blake in that garage.”
Soft knocks pounded on my door.
My body automatically locked up. “Who the fuck is that?”
Caleb squeezed my upper arms. “It’s just Viper. Remember? He said he’d come up after he was done with things?”
I blinked. “He can’t possibly be done with things, though.”
“Just me, guys. You gonna let me in? I’m standing with some serious food out here.”
Viper’s voice pulled Caleb from bed. “You stay here, I’ll go let him in, okay?”
I swallowed hard. “Come back quickly?”
He winked. “Always.”
I heard my front door open and I held my breath. There was still a part of me that thought Blake might find a way out of things. That he wasn’t really dead. That he’d come right up behind Viper and charge his way into the condo and take me for himself like he had planned all along. The thought pushed tears to my eyes. Even as I heard Caleb and Viper talking, I still feared for my life.
When will I no longer be afraid?
“Yeah, clean-up crew’s here now,” Viper said. “They said it should only take them about ten minutes to get things squared away.”
“Good, good,” Caleb said. “You gonna hang around up here until they’re done?”
“If you guys don’t mind. I figured she might feel safer with two of us up here as well.”
Their conversation pulled me from bed, and I stood in the doorway watching them go back and forth.
“Didn’t anyone else hear that gunshot, though?” I asked.
The mountain man himself shook his head. “Not with a silencer like the one I pack. No one would’ve heard that shot had they not been down there with us.”
Caleb nodded. “And that parking garage was completely deserted.”
I drew in a deep breath. “You’re sure about that, too?”
“One hundred percent,” Viper said with a nod of his head.
“But what about the—”
“Cameras?” Caleb asked. “I took care of that the second I stepped off the elevator. I have a mobile jammer on my phone. A few keystrokes, and it can jam any cellphone and any camera system within a twenty-foot radius.”
“Huh,” I said as my hands slipped to my sides, “that actually makes me feel a bit better.”
“Anything else you need to ask?” Viper asked.
I cleared my throat as I gazed up into his face. “Blake’s really dead? I mean, there’s actually a body down there?”
“There’s actually a physical body down there. He’s gone, Rose, and he’s never coming back to get you,” Viper said.
And for some reason, hearing both of them say that to me was enough.
“Oh, God,” I whimpered.
My legs gave out from beneath me and Caleb lunged at my plummeting body. He caught me just before I hit the floor, and before I knew it Viper had wrapped us both up in a great, big blanket that I had tossed over the arm of my couch. I struggled to catch my breath as my forehead fell against Caleb’s. I breathed the air he afforded me, trying my best to bring myself out of the clouds as relief held me hostage.
“It’s okay, I’m right here. I’ve got you,” he whispered.
