“Landon.”
“I know, baby. I just don’t know what the solution is. Daniil agrees we might have to make a move but he isn’t sure how to do it safely.”
“If all of you are close by—you, Elliott, Chris—you really think they can still get me?”
“I don’t know,” he says quietly. “That’s what scares me.”
“I have an important job in New York. I have to go. I can’t risk my career.”
“But you can risk your life?”
“Yes.”
He sighs and strokes my back.
“You risk your life all the time,” I point out after a moment.
“I know.”
“But I can’t.”
“I didn’t say youcan’t, I just don’t want you to.”
Well, here we are at another impasse.
“I’m asking you to trust me,” he says after a long, uncomfortable silence. “Can you trust me to do what I do and keep you safe until we figure this out? Please?”
Ugh.
I hate this conversation, hate that we’re both so stubborn about something that’s so important, and hate being at odds.
I’m not okay with the status quo.
There are no leads, nothing to indicate they’re any closer to finding the men who kidnapped me, nothing.
That doesn’t bode well for me.
And the fact that I don’t answer his question is probably telling as well.
I just don’t know what it’s telling me.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Landon
Allora isn’t happy.
It’s been two weeks since our last conversation about using her as bait to draw out the kidnappers, and nothing has changed. Daniil thinks we should do it, but her father is on the fence and I’m dead set against it, so no decision has been made.
She hasn’t been cold exactly but I can see her starting to pull away. Not physically so much as emotionally. She doesn’t laugh as much, she’s bored, and every time she talks to one of her friends, she goes into the bedroom and shuts the door. Like she’s keeping me at something of a distance.
Maybe I’m being an overprotective ass, but what’s the alternative?
We’re at headquarters today to discuss the situation once again and she isn’t even in the room, opting to hang out with Luna in the lobby. She’s done arguing with me and everyone else and told me to just let her know what we decide.
I figure that’s not going to end well for me, but it’s my current reality.
“There you are.” Silver greets me when he comes in. “I have a surprise for you.”
