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“It won’t take long. I’ll meet you downstairs, okay?”

Cas kissed my forehead. “Call me when you’re done. I’ll come back up to get you.”

I rubbed my chest as I watched him go.

He was definitely going to punish me for this later.

CHAPTER 45

Lucy

We pulled up to the gate at the Valor estate as I dug around in my messenger bag for my ID. Cas rolled down the window of the black Explorer and gave the security guard a nod.

I handed Cas my ID and we went through the whole process I did the last time I was here, except Cas didn’t make any small talk. He didn’t thank the guard either when everything was handed back to him.

The gate opened and I felt jittery as I texted Frankie and Liam our progress.

After her appointment at the clinic, Melinda had gone straight back to the Valor estate.

We couldn’t follow her right to her house, but we could keep an eye on everything through the cameras they had inside the estate.

“I brought my good camera,” I told Cas as I pulled it out of my messenger bag. “Just in case.”

He turned down one of the roads lined with jacarandas and a ringing sound filled the car. Cas accepted the call and all I could hear was the sound of wind and a motorcycle revving in the background.

“I couldn’t read the text, but Dane left Aegis before we got there,” Liam practically yelled. “Where are you now?”

“We’re heading to your place at the Valor estate.” Cas glanced over at me, just as worried as I was. “Why?”

I was even more worried that I couldn’t feel anything through the bond other than the distance between us.

“Well, I’ll be seeing you soon then.”

Then I felt it.

A spike in his emotions – an awful mix of anger and fear that suddenly made it hard to breathe.

“Dane’s on his way to the Valor estate right now.”

Shit.

“Do you think it’s a coincidence?” Cas asked as he pulled into Liam’s driveway.

“At this point, I don’t think anything is a coincidence.” I pulled out my gun and made sure it was fully loaded. I slipped it back in the holster and dug around in my messenger bag for the spare magazines, tucking them in the pockets of my denim coat, hoping the sherpa lining would hide the outline of my gun.

I studied Liam’s house as I clipped a few more magazines to my belt next to my knife. It looked abandoned. Lifeless.

Has he ever lived here or did he live exclusively at his brownstone in Chinatown?

“Don’t do anything before I get there,” Liam warned.

Pulling out my knife, I tested the edge to make sure it was still sharp enough to slice through bone. “I’m not going to do anything, but I will get whatever pictures I can.”

“My house is on the other side of Gideon’s backyard,” Liam told me. “There’s no fence between our properties either. Just wait inside until you see something you might need to leave the house for.”

“Don’t worry, I’m not as reckless as you might think. Where’s Frankie?”

“She’s headed over to the Lopez compound. I asked her to work on getting a meeting with the Steele pack as quickly as possible.”

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