Page 51 of Bound by Adoration

As you know, they are very powerful in Atlanta which was my complete disadvantage.

I am done hiding. Done running. So death was the only option.

Before signing off, I want to relay information that I’ve witnessed while in the custody of Miles Hamilton and his sons.

Thomas Stanton. Current missing person. Miles shot him in the head and fed him to the piranhas.

Cole Anderson. Miles and Kylo beat, tortured, and murdered him. He was dragged out of the room, never to be seen again.

…

I stopped reading and frantically started smacking Liam on the arm. His eyes opened. “Get the fuck up and help me find Nyx. Now!”

“What’s goin’ on?” he asked, groaning.

“No time.” I hauled ass out of the bed, grabbed my jeans off the floor, and put them on while walking out the door.

“Did something happen?” Liam asked, pulling on his pants and following me as I tore through the door and down the hall.

“She wants to kill herself. We have to find her now.”

“What?” Liam asked as we both took off in a run down the hallway.

My heart thumped hard as we moved into the wide expanse of the living room and kitchen. “Nyx!” I called out, not seeing her anywhere. “Split up!”

Liam took off to the kitchen. I turned my ass around and started opening up doors.

The first, the wood crashed against the wall. I frantically searched the empty room, even opening the closet to make sure she wasn’t there. “Nyx, god dammit!”

I moved to the second room, doing the same thing and found nothing once again.

Repeating it three more times, I went to the hallway bathroom. Once again, nothing.

My pulse raced as a fear as I’d never felt wrapped around my heart.

“Find her?” Liam asked, running down the hall and meeting me.

“Nothing.”

“Did you check the bathroom in our bedroom?” he asked. Not answering, I turned around and rushed back into the bedroom, slamming the door into the wall.

“What the hell!” Nyx screamed from the tub where she was soaking.

Relief. Hell, I didn’t think that was even close to how I felt to see her breathing. Sliding up to the side of the tub, I reached in and grabbed her, pulling her naked body out. “Did you ingest anything?”

“What are you talking about?” she asked as Liam came to her other side, his hands on her as well, no doubt feeling the same as I did.

“Did you take anything? Drink. Pills. Anything?”

Her eyes widened as the realization hit her. Quietly she replied, “No. I didn’t ingest anything.”

I pulled her tight to me as Liam wrapped his arms around the both of us. We sat like that for long moments just being there with her breathing.

After the adrenaline slowed a touch, Liam and I pulled back. “Want to tell me what the fuck is goin’ on here?” Liam asked the both of us.

“You’re up,” I told her, looking down into her beautiful blue sometimes purple eyes. She closed them briefly and turned to Liam.

“I had a moment yesterday,” she started, and I wanted to shake the shit out of her. A moment. Are you fucking kidding me? This was more than a fucking moment!

---