Total pages in book: 79
Estimated words: 77265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77265 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 386(@200wpm)___ 309(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Me: Want me to talk to them? Maybe you all can come stay for a bit. Koyn and Hadley don’t seem to mind extra guests.
As much as I want to move on with my life with Caius and Kaitlyn, we’re not finished. People are still out there hurting the innocent and only we have the means and knowledge to stop them. We even have a greasy, tattooed, insane army of motorcycle men helping us. It’s now or never, no matter how exhausted I am by it all.
I hear Eva calling my name and turn to see her jogging across the field from the clubhouse where she’s staying with us. The concern on her face has me sitting up straight, immediately worried. She’s out of breath when she reaches me.
“What’s wrong?” I demand. “Has Dad found you?”
She shakes her head. “No, I’m pretty sure whatever Koyn did to my phone means it’s untraceable.”
“Grandma, watch this!” Kaitlyn jumps into the pool nearest to us, splashing us both. I’m not mad about it because it cools me off.
“Great job, honey,” Eva says, giving her a pleased grin. “I’ll come swim in a bit as soon as I finish laundry.” She then turns her attention back to me. “It’s Vivienne. She texted me.”
Vivienne only stayed at Stormy and Copper’s for a few days before she vanished. Caius thinks it’s for the best. Understandably, he doesn’t want her near us.
“Let me see,” I mutter as I take her phone to read the text.
Vivienne: I talked her into meeting me. We’re going to a hotel near the airport. Tell the biker dudes they’re going to have to dispose of her body when I finish.
I respond back to her.
Eva: This is Romy. Which hotel? Are you still in Oklahoma?
Theo chooses this moment to exit Koyn’s house. When several of them went on a recon mission, including Caius, he was made to stay back. Halo is his shadow, never letting him far out of sight.
“You have to take me to the airport,” I bark out to Theo. “Hurry. She’s planning to kill Ava. If she does this and brings attention on us, we may never have our chance to end this. We have to go.”
I rise to my feet and am rewarded with a sharp pain in my back that radiates around my side. Not only am I hot, but I’ve been dealing with these intermittent aches as well. Grimacing, I rub at my stomach and try to ease the pain.
“Let me and Halo handle this, babe,” Theo says, eyebrows scrunching. “You’re about to burst. You need to be resting.”
Ignoring him, I tell Kaitlyn goodbye and make sure Eva’s good with watching her while I’m gone. Then I walk—or maybe it’s more like limp waddle—to the back door. Inside, the air conditioning is heavenly, but I can’t bask in it for long.
Halo stalks past me and heads for one of the SUVs parked out front. Theo, even though I’m still upset with him, makes sure to open my car door and help me into the passenger seat before taking the one behind me.
I text Caius to let him know what’s happening, but he doesn’t respond. They must be focused on what they’re doing. The pains in my side are relentless, but at least now the AC is blasting me in the face.
“Airport?” Halo asks as he peels out of the driveway.
“Yep. I’m trying to figure out which hotel.”
We’re quiet as we drive. Not sure what we’re going to be dealing with when we get there, but it does need to be dealt with.
Vivienne has always been a wild card. She’s sick and twisted, and clearly not mentally well after what all she did with me and Kaitlyn. That’s why we have to get to her. If she somehow reveals our intentions or even who she is to me, and Ava manages to escape unscathed, all our hard work will be for nothing. There will be no element of surprise.
People like Gideon, Huxley, and Orion aren’t stupid. They’re going to find it suspicious that not only did me and Kaitlyn escape the facility, but Caius and LuLu left around the same time. And even though Theo claims Orion doesn’t know anything, I’m not sure I believe that. It’s obvious we’ve managed to circumvent their mind warfare and found our way to each other.
However, they can’t be for sure. And they certainly don’t know we’ve been working with Vivienne and Theo or Koyn’s group, or that we were behind Seth’s and Solomon’s deaths.
I just don’t trust Vivienne. She’ll throw us under the bus just to get the satisfaction of seeing Ava bewildered. We can’t take those chances.
The drive from Sand Springs, where the compound is located, to the Tulsa International Airport is a quiet one, aside from Halo instructing Theo on where to find weapons stashed in the SUV.