Page 207 of Obsession

“Warrants don’t work on you, but they do on her…”

Harris stepped toward him, but I grabbed his hand.

“If you believe that, you’re even dumber than I thought, Walker. You’ll never touch her.”

Shane just smiled and pulled out a walkie-talkie.

“You want to see it? I have a team nearby, ready to pick her up. You’re alone, you don’t even have a gun on you.”

Harris gritted his teeth, every muscle in his body tensing, a vein pumping at his temple.

“You made a mess last night, four accidents, one of which involved a burning car and a hospitalized driver. Katherine would have been in deep shit if that man had died. We have already picked up about ten vandals that we caught on camera last night. You didn’t know about them, did you? You’re a lot harder to catch because my superiors want you for something else, so they won’t even bother arresting you for those street races, but they can arrest her,” he jerked his head in my direction, “they’ll have so much fun accusing her of a lot of things, and considering she was in your car, it’s possible she’ll even get a few years in prison.”

I turned to stone.

The situation had gotten out of hand far too quickly, and I felt my stomach turn.

Harris didn’t allow himself to be manipulated.

“Katherine wasn’t behind the wheel for a second. She had nothing to do with this, you can’t arrest her.”

Shane smiled in frustration.

“Legally, I can’t, but considering the disaster you left behind, she’ll be interviewed as a witness, and from then on I won’t have to explain what’s going to happen. They’ll question her and bombard her with really uncomfortable questions, put her on the spot for hours, for as long as it takes, until they get something out of her.”

Harris looked at me with blazing eyes, guilt written all over his face like an open wound. He had brought me there, he knew that, and he was filled with rage and pain.

“What the fuck do you want?” he finally growled, glaring at Shane.

I could feel him giving in, and I didn’t like it.

“A statement. A real one this time, about Gunn.”

“That’s not going to happen.”

Shane exhaled through his nose. Harris’s answer had been very brutal.

“Are you sure you want this, Stone?”

“Fuck you! You’re asking that under the guise of protecting Katherine? You’re not so stupid that you don’t know what will happen after, are you?”

I didn’t understand what Harris was talking about, but Shane seemed to, because he looked at me.

That’s when I figured it out.

Gunn.

I finally had a name. His boss, the man for whom he did whatever the fuck he did. If he betrayed him to protect me, he would take revenge on me.

Horror spread through me and I felt the need to sit down. Somehow Adam had gotten to me and was apparently trying to get me away from them.

“Fine! Then information about the convoy that attacked Belltown last month.”

“I have no idea who it was.”

Shane’s jaw clenched.

“This is the last chance I’m going to give you, Stone. Don’t think I’m going to beg. Either you tell me everything you know about the attack, or I’ll call my team to pick up Katherine. You have five seconds to decide.”

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