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“Red really livens up the place, don’t you think?”
And then I walked away towards the elevator.
TWENTY-EIGHT
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“Rylee, come back here.”
Where in the hell was she going? I caught her before she was barely out of my arm’s length.
“Service elevator, Rylee. We aren’t the kind of people that walk out the front door unnoticed.”
She blinked but followed. I rested my hand on her lower back as I looked over my shoulder and nodded at Zeid. While Zeid gathered anything with Rylee’s name on it, X was sweeping the area again, making sure there was nothing missed.
My heart hadn’t stopped pounding until this exact moment, the moment I was able to touch her. All the skills I had. All the time invested to keep her safe over the years and my own possessiveness had almost been the reason I lost her. I’d fix that shit tomorrow.
“Is he?” Rylee said.
I pulled her in closer. She was probably in shock. This wasn’t far from how she’d been the days after her father had perished in what the cops said was a fire caused by a faulty gas line and left it at that. No one wanted to solve a murder for known gang associates.
“Yeah, he’s dead. Zeid checked because you’d be amazed what people can survive.”
She touched the back of her head. She wasn’t throwing up or gagging. That was a plus.
“His brain?”
I pulled her to my side and kept her moving.
“Was he really using it?”
She slowly shook her head, her long, straight hair tickling over my hand on her back. I think I liked her like this. She still had on makeup, but fuck, she looked serious in all black.
“No. I don’t think he was,” she said. Her tone was flat, and I couldn’t stop the laughter.
“Blossom, was that sarcasm and the guy isn’t even cold yet?”
Her lips pressed into a little flat line before she turned and looked me straight in the eyes.
“Is that wrong?”
I shook my head. X and Zeid caught up on either side of us.
“She good?”
I didn’t have to answer.
“I think she’ll be fine,” Rylee said.
X hit the button to go down. No one was talking about the elephant in the room. The dead guy had just pissed me off, but there was some shit that we’d heard and had to figure out.
“I… I didn’t know,” she said. I pulled her closer and kissed the top of her head.
“We can talk about it later. Let’s just get home.”
She might have given me a glimpse of the Rylee that was possibly okay, but she was still struggling to process everything and put two and two together.
“Yeah, home. Sure.”
