Page 55 of Guarding the Singer

No, put an end to the danger.

The last thing he wanted to do was walk away from her.

"William?"

He heard footfalls pounding down the hallway.

"It's clear!" He turned around, taking a quickinventory of the room and shaking his head. "It's clear! I'm coming out."

He turned around and walked out of the room, his sidearm tucked away again. He took a quick look at everyone standing around and smiled, holding his hands up. "Sorry, folks! There was a mouse."

"A mouse?" One of the teamsters looked at Selene and saw how scared she looked.

She was standing next to Mandy, holding onto the sleeve of her cardigan.

Selene let out a long pent-up breath. "Oh my goodness... remind me not to watch Princess Bride before a filming day, right?"

William smiled at her. She was thinking quickly. "R.O.U.S.?"

She shrugged and took a step away from the wall, smiling back at the assembled group. "Sorry." She let go of Mandy's cardigan and held out her hands in front of her about a foot apart. "I swear, it had a tail this long."

"That's it?"

Selene turned a smile to the teamster who'd spoken to her earlier. She moved her hands a few more inches apart. "What about this long?"

William could see the tension draining out of everyone. Some of the crew were already walking away, chuckling to themselves.

One of the women in the hall, with bold white letters spelled out across the chest of her black t-shirtsaying, 'GOT DUCK TAPE?' waved a hand in the air. "Honey, that's just a normal New York rat. I've seen one drag a full pizza box down a flight of stairs. I'm surprised you haven't seen one until now!"

"I guess I just needed to get into the New York flow." She lowered her head and then tipped her chin up to smile at the DUCK TAPE T-shirt lady. "Thanks, Alanda!"

The woman and her awesome t-shirt walked away. "No problem, Selene. See you on set."

Cooper came down the hallway with another man at his elbow.

That cleared out the rest of the staff.

Cooper moved right to Selene and hugged her close. He lowered his head and almost whispered to her. "Are you okay?"

She looked at Cooper with a smile. "Yes. I'm... I'm going to be." She gestured to the woman standing next to her. "You should thank Mandy for that. I don't know what happened inside, but she came out before we could go in. She looked like she'd seen a ghost. She saved me from walking into..."

William held out his hand to the man he didn't know. "I'm William Winchester."

The man with the nearly silver hair shook his hand and nodded. "Mitchel Longstreet. I'm the director of the film. Did I see you come out of there?"

William nodded. "I went in to make sure that there wasn't someone in the bathroom."

He saw Mitchel's brows lift and recognized hope when he saw it.

And then disappointment.

"Do I want to go in there?"

William looked down at the carpeted hallway. "Not in those shoes. There is glass on the floor. A lot of it." He turned to Selene, and she walked into his arms. "I'm glad you decided to wear the boots today. If you'd come to set with those soft slip ons you had out at the door, you might have hurt yourself."

William looked past Selene's ear, and he could see that Cooper and Mitchel both understood what he was saying.

Whoever had done this might have been trying to hurt her, not just damage the dressing room or Selene's things.

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