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Heavy steps came from the veranda outside.“Nick!”Caleb called. “What’s going on?”
“They found us.” Nick tore his gaze from me to Tobias. “They fucking found us…get whatever you can…andget in the car.”
We all stood there stunned for a second…until we moved.
Our panic was a tornado. I snatched what I could, calling out. “Rebel!Rebel!”
We were out in a blur of terror, piling into the car and slamming the doors closed.
Dust and rocks kicked up behind us, swallowing the sight of the cabin as we skidded around the corner of the driveway and hit the road. I turned around, tearing my gaze from the place that’d been a haven for us for the last few days, and looked at the road ahead.
“And he didn’t say who it was after us?” Tobias snapped, sucking in hard breaths as he lifted his gun and checked the chamber.
“No,” Nick snarled, his focus fixed on getting us away as fast as possible.
Tobias tugged his shirt down, that’d been thrown on in a hurry. His jeans were still unbuttoned, his boots barely hanging on.
The remainder of our clothes had been shoved in a bag and tossed into the back, along with the mess of pills I’d grabbed as we raced out of the cabin. I sucked in hard breaths, willing away the bright sparks of panic behind my eyes. Rebel whined and pushed against me as Nick expertly handled the car, turning hard and gunning the engine.
“Did he say if it was The Order?” Caleb asked.
“It has to be,” Tobias snapped beside me. “Who else could it be?”
My hands still shook, clutching the bottle of antibiotics I’d grabbed as I ran. I tried to process everything. Nick had gone to call Benjamin Rossi…expecting the Mafia boss to be on his way to meet us…
But it looked like that had all changed.Because now we were running.
“Those fuckers,” Tobias snarled softly, then turned his gaze to mine. “I’ll kill them all before I let them anywhere near you.”
I tried to stop the panic, but I was tipped off my axis…one step out of balance and I couldn’t get myself together. All I saw was…him.Tobias.
“And he said this warehouse is protected?” Caleb asked in front of me.
Rebel climbed down to the floor to curl around my feet.
Nick watched the rear-view mirror as the white lines on the road blurred beside us. “He said it’s as protected as we’re gonna get.”
“Somehow that doesn’t sound very convincing,” Caleb muttered, turning around to look at me. “You okay, princess?”
“No, she’s not okay,” T snapped, rage sparking in his eyes.
“I didn’t get everything I wanted.” The words were out before I knew it.
“What?” Tobias asked.
I turned to him. “The dressings for your thigh, I left them all on the counter.”
He scowled, then shook his head. “We’re told The fucking Order is after us and you’re worried about my damn leg?”
I just nodded. “Yes.”
Caleb turned to face the road ahead. “We’ll get you more, baby,” he assured me. “Whatever you need.”
Whatever I need…
I looked at Nick, then Tobias, whose stare was deadly. I wanted us to be safe, was that too much to ask for? It seemed it was. It seemed like the universe conspired against us. It wanted us fighting. It wanted us running. It wanted us desperate to survive.
Nick pushed the sedan harder, his focus divided between the road ahead of us and the rear-view mirror. I glanced over my shoulder to the long stretch of road behind us, and tried to breathe…as we headed back to the one place we didn’t want to be…back home.
