Page 211 of Only Fools Rush
They would find me. I was sure of it. It was just a matter of time. I could survive until then.
My eyes struggled to adjust to the darkness, but they caught on a figure sitting across from me in the cell. The mass shifted.
Someone was here.
I blinked again, shuffling backward. Away. Warning bells rang in my head. The figure shifted again.
Sandy blond hair and titanium eyes took me in with a mixture of sadness and pity.
My breath caught in my throat. My eyes went wide.
“No,”I breathed. Not him. Not here.
Max.
“Hello, Leona.”
EPILOGUE
MAX
No. No, no, no.
How the fuck did this happen?
They were supposed to keep hersafe.
I struggled against the binds keeping my hands pinned behind my back while Leona sucked in panicked breaths. My head throbbed, and my vision swam, but I stared at her as the only point of focus, keeping everything level.
After all that I did to keep them out of the city, how did they get her, too?
And what the fuck was I supposed to do now?
To be continued…
