Page 153 of Nothing to Fear

“Everything has changed!”

The door burst open and Roxie came running in. “Come! Come with me!” Grabbing Savanna, the woman attempted to reverse course.

She resisted. “What are you—”

“They got him! You’ve got to come! Come! Come!”

Got him? Oh, God, they—Roxie’s urgency fueled hers.

They got him? The guy? Her… Oh, God!

Running down the corridor, the elevator opened automatically to swallow them both. Roxie stabbed at the button then tossed the hair from her face.

“How did the elevator know we—”

“It knows when I’m coming.”

Wow. “How—”

“I don’t ask questions, I just get the perks,” Roxie said, smoothing both of them as they descended. “Are you okay? How’s your heart rate?”

Yeah, wow, her chest was rising and falling fast. Because of this news or her conversation with Darroch?

“Where are we going? How did they get him?”

“Trying to get in here!” Roxie scoffed in affront. “Can you believe it? Asshole. Not a chance in hell.”

She shivered. “He was here?”

“Is here! It’s happening right now!”

“Happening right—”

The moment the elevator doors opened, Roxie grabbed her again, dashing out to weave them around a half dozen obstructing people into a long, windowless corridor. Suddenly, they stopped. Roxie turned right into the wall. Except it wasn’t the wall, a secret door gave way and they were in a room. A small room with what had to be one-way glass.

“Do you see him?”

“Do I…?”

As the whiplash subsided, she peeked through the people beyond and out to the street. A dozen police vehicles crowded around the chaotic scene. A guy, dragged down the sidewalk, fighting, objecting.

“It’s amazing,” Roxie said, clearly buzzed. “Want to know who he is? He’s—”

“I know who he is,” she said, chilled.

Roxie’s adrenaline faded fast, and then she was stroking her arm. “You know him?”

“Yeah, he’s the guy from Breckenridge. The guy who came in and—”

When her voice broke, Roxie gathered her into a hug. “Oh, honey.”

For a minute, it was nice to relax into the comfort.

Quickly, she cast it off. “Sorry, I—”

“No, don’t be sorry. This is a huge thing. You need all the support you can get right now.”

And somehow that took her back to Roxie’s comment about forgiveness being a choice.

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