Page 77 of One Quick Obsession

“Good. Now you can tell Scarlett to tell Luna to stop yelling at me.”

“I have nothing to do with it. It’s their twin thing.”

“I guess,” Flynn said dryly. “Come on, let me go walk you to Scarlett’s place because I parked down the street.”

I frowned. “Why?”

“With the storm last night, some of the rain washed out part of the edge of the street. I’m surprised you didn’t see it on your way here.”

“It wasn’t like that before. What do you mean part of the street?”

“There’s a bunch of branches, and a downed tree.” Flynn paused and tilted his head. “That’s weird, right?”

The hair on the back of my neck stood on end, and I nodded. “Let’s go down to Scarlett together. You can show me the street on the way there.”

“Let’s do that.”

Alarmed, I grabbed my keys and phone and headed down the path to Scarlett’s house. Hopefully she’d see me on the security soon and come out to us. But when she didn’t, I kept frowning.

Then my legs nearly went out from under me as ice slid up my spine, a steely resolve taking over as I tried not to panic. Only clear thinking would get us out of this even as I knew there would be no clarity in this moment. “Call the cops.”

“What?”

“The door is open, Flynn. And that window is broken. Fuck.”

“Do you think it’s her dad? Or hell, Michelle’s brother?”

Bile coated my tongue as Flynn pulled out his phone. I immediately went down the deck stairs and tried to see if there were any tracks.

“It’s got to be Ronin. He’s the only one left. I knew he was being too fucking quiet.”

“Hudson.”

The ice in my twin’s tone nearly broke me, and I finally followed his gaze to the smoke slithering through the tops of the trees.

“Fuck. That’s the Ackerson place.”

“I’m already on the phone with the cops. Then I’ll call Sheriff Macon. Fuck.”

“I’m going.”

“I’m right behind you. Can’t be a coincidence.”

I shook my head, even though he couldn’t see me, as we ran through the trees, and I had to pray that I wasn’t too late.

It wasn’t that far down the path. Branches slammed into us, little twigs slicing into our skin, but we kept moving, and I was damn glad that I had worn my boots. Flynn wore nicer shoes than me, since we had been at dinner, but he didn’t slow down, and I would forever be grateful for that.

As we broke through the side of the property, I cursed under my breath. The entire original structure, at least what was left of it, was on fire.

“Holy fuck. If we don’t take care of this, it’s going to take a shit ton of forest too,” Flynn whispered, and I pulled out my phone. “I need to tell the authorities that they’re going to need to send everybody.”

A scream echoed through the clearing, and ice froze my blood.

Scarlett. That was Scarlett.

And then I was moving, phone in hand, as I ran towards the burning building.

Flynn was right on my tail, but before I could do anything, a body shot out of the side of the building and slammed into me.