Page 48 of Crush (Deadly Hearts 1)

“Home,” she says straight away. “I’ll give David a call. He can meet us there.”

I nod and hand her my phone and tune out her muttered voice as I focus on the task at hand. I can’t let my worry for her cloud any aspect of this mission. I need to get us to her home without suspicion or giving anyone any reason to question who we are and where we are going. Speeding, or dangerous driving is out. Slow and steady, watching out for anyone following us.

“Ruby,” Ramsey rasps when she hangs up the phone and places it in between us. “You shouldn’t have come.”

She turns to look at him. “Of course I was coming,” she scoffs. “What do you take me for?”

“No, you don’t understand. This wasn’t about me. It was about you. Jake wanted to know every move you made. He wanted to know who you’d bring in… Now he knows.”

I glance at Ruby before I look back at the road.

It’s not the end of the world. Going in herself will serve in her favor here. But Layton and I will have been clocked as back up, not to mention the half a dozen other men that had the building surrounded in case things went very wrong. I pause in my thoughts and reconsider my original stance. This is bad. Really bad. He knows she goes in headfirst and now he is going to draw her out.

“Give your dad a ring,” I murmur as we pull up into her driveway.

“What for?” she asks carefully. “And which one?”

“Rex,” I reply. “Just do it.”

She nods and picks up my phone again, holding it out for me to unlock, at the same time as she punches in the code to open the huge electric gates.

I drive forward and spot the huge black car already parked up at the same time as she does.

“Dad?” she asks, opening the door before I’ve come to a stop. “What the hell are you doing here?”

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