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I gasped- ignoring the dripping ice cream in my hand.
“What’s going on?” asked Ryder, quickly snatching up my phone.
“Hey!” I shouted as his eyes skimmed the text message.
“It’s him,” he said. At his words, Adrian and Cooper jumped off their chairs, flinging their ice creams into the trash and standing around me like a fortress protecting me from the enemy. Ryder handed my phone back to me and pulled his gun out instead. “We need to get her back to the car. Now.”
I looked around frantically, my heart beating fast as they herded me back to the limo. A guard covered every opening around me as they tightened the circle around me. Their muscular planes pressed against my body as we slowly walked while Ryder scoped out the area.
“He’s here if he knows she’s eating ice cream,” Ethan told Ryder.
“I don’t see the guy with the gray sweater,” said Ryder. “He knows what he’s doing, and I’m not happy about it.”
Once in the limo, I was relieved to be out of sight of the stalker. At least, in here, he couldn’t see me as clearly as when I’m out in public. I didn’t even care about how close Adrian was sitting to me. I looked at the text message again, and chills went up my spine.
He had been watching me eat ice cream.
I was starting to get annoyed and frustrated as I finished the rest of my ice cream. But I jumped when my phone started to ring. All the men sat on the edge of their seats in alarm.
“Oh, it’s just my nephew,” I said out loud, looking at the name on the screen and feeling silly. Manfred was my nephew- the son of Princess Lyra. “Hey, Manny.”
“Hey, what’s up?” he said in his usually bored drawling voice. To me, he was the jokester and never took life seriously. We were close in age, and he was even older than me, so we were more like best friends. We weren’t exactly blood-related, but my brother was his blood uncle.
“Nothing,” I said, trying to breathe evenly.
“You sound like something frightened you,” he said. “Anyways, I have something to tell you. You won’t believe it.”
“Okay, what is it?” I asked, rolling my eyes.
“My family finally agreed to host a haunted house event,” he said excitedly. “I want you to come, and you can bring Olivia too.”
“Ooh, that’s exciting,” I said, smiling but also partly relieved it wasn’t my stalker calling. “When do you want us there?”
“How about this Sunday?”
“Oh no, that’s Alana’s baby shower.”
“Monday night then,” he said.
“I have work.”
“Please.”
“Fine, I’ll try,” I said, sighing. “It better be worth it.”
“Oh, it will. This year’s scare event is going to be so fucking awesome. Can’t wait to see you.”
“Alright, bye, Manny.”
“Bye-bye.”
As I hung up, I noticed Ryder staring at me with a hard expression on his face.
“I don’t know how I feel about you going to that,” said Ryder.
“Hey, you can’t control what I can and cannot do,” I said.
“That’s true, but this is for security purposes,” he said. “Anything could happen.”
