Page 146 of Live for Me

The glow was visible in the night sky before the house was ever in sight.

“Utah,” Memphis whispered when she noticed it too. Whatever she intended to say originally disappeared when she looked back down at her phone. “Jersey said the field behind the main barn. They’re watching the barn.”

I killed the lights and turned the truck straight into the field to my left.

How in the actual fuck I was supposed to just find a parked car out here in another cornfield without driving straight into it, or straight over the other two people out here who I needed to find, was beyond my level of comprehension.

“To the left a little,” Memphis said, without ever looking up from her phone.

“What? Is this you being a witch again?”

“I track his phone, smartass. Do as I say.”

“Memphis, I swear —.”

“Slow down,” she interrupted. She reached over to grab my arm and squeezed the shit out of it. “Stop. Here.”

I put the truck in park and just looked at her, because I still didn’t see that car anywhere. She looked at me just in time to see me jump when someone knocked on my window.

CHAPTER SIXTY-SIX

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Iwas annoyed that he was as quick as he was. Otherwise, I would’ve cracked New Jersey with the truck door when I swung it open to get out.

“Only two of them walking around by the barn. From what I could see, three more around the outside of the house. Two others out by Kyle’s,” he whispered. I went to the back door of the truck while he spoke so I could start gathering my own shit to get ready.

“Utah,” Triss whispered. She nodded toward the front bumper of my truck when I looked at her. Memphis was standing in front of the truck, staring up at the glow from the fire in the distance.

I was as fast as possible about getting my gear hooked to my belt so I could meet Memphis at the front of the truck. I stepped right into her line of sight so she could see only me.

“I started an arson war,” she choked out. “Why did we ever leave him alone? Why did we ever think we could include other?—”

I covered her mouth another fucking time and shook my head at her.

“We get Indy out, sugar. That’s what we’re going to focus on right now. The rest of it doesn’t matter. You can think about it all you want later. Butright now, all we need to do is get him out of there.”

Her eyes glistened with a million tears that wanted so badly to pour down her face. She swallowed hard instead and nodded back at me. I took my hand from her mouth to pull the gun from my waistband. I grabbed her hand and placed the grip in it. She was shaking her head by the time she’d looked back up at me. I wrapped a hand around the back of her neck and leaned down to put my forehead against hers.

“You will stay alive tonight, Memphis. I don’t care what that means for anyone else out here. You hear me?”

“Oh, neat. Fuck the rest of us then,” Triss grumbled.

“You hush,” Jersey snapped at her.

Memphis tried to turn her head to look at the other two, but I shifted my hold down to the back of her neck to keep her right where she was, looking up at me.

“Do you hear me, Syn?” I repeated.

“Yes, sir.”

“My good girl.”

“Alright, lover boy,” Jersey hissed impatiently.

“Oh, it’s okay to interrupt when they annoyyou?” Triss asked.

“It’s okay for me to do whatever the fuck I want,” he said.

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