Page 734 of Filthy Elites

Stumbling out the door, Kelsey made her way to Adrian’s Porsche that was parked around the front of the building. She screamed when she heard someone directly behind her.

Xander stood behind her with his hands in the pockets of his jeans, looking concerned. “Kelsey! Are you okay?”

Kelsey threw herself into Xander’s arms. “No! Xander, we need to get out of here. He can’t see you. He’ll kill him.”

“Whoa. What are you talking about?”

Cade leaned out the Jeep’s window. “Hurry up, Xan. We have things to do!”

“Please! We need to go. They’ll see us.”

“Kelsey, you’re bleeding!” Xander pointed to the smudges of red across her purple animal rescue golf shirt.

“It’s not mine. Xander! He’s going to die. I only have an hour.” Kelsey clicked the button to unlock the car and hopped in.

Xander rounded the front of the Porsche and yelled to Cade. “Follow us. I’ll call you from the car.”

Cade could see the difference in Xander’s expression, so he shifted to the driver’s seat and put the Jeep in drive, waiting to follow them.

Xander jumped into the passenger seat just as Kelsey took off. “Start talking. What happened? Why are you covered in blood and driving like mad?”

Kelsey started to cry and blurted out the whole story. “I only have about fifty minutes or they’re going to kill him.”

Xander frowned. “We need to call the police.”

“They said if I called the police, they would kill him because they had nothing to lose. If they see anyone, he’s dead.” Kelsey passed a car that was going slow and almost hit a car going the other way.”

“Slow down or you’ll end up killing us and we won’t be able to help Adrian.” Xander grabbed the door handle as the car swerved. “You’re too upset to drive. Why don’t you pull over so I can take over?”

“We don’t have time!” Kelsey pulled up Adrian’s phone app on the car’s computer display. “Call Dominic.”

Dominic answered on the first ring. “What happened, Colton?”

“Dominic?” Kelsey sobbed.

“Is this Kelsey?” Dominic’s concerned voice came through the car’s speakers.

“They shot Adrian. Greg and his brother shot him and they’re going to kill him if I don’t get them a sticky note with numbers on it.” Kelsey rattled off that information so quickly it was hard to understand.

“Where are you now? Are you safe?”

“I’m in Adrian’s car with Xander.”

“Xander?”

“Yeah, man. I’m Xander Ames. I work with Adrian and Kelsey at the shelter. I was coming back to get my hat I left there when she came running outside. She’s covered in blood. I thought it was hers at first.”

“You two go get whatever they’re asking for and I’m sending someone to help. He’ll be there in about an hour.”

“That’s not enough time! They’ll kill him!” Kelsey cried out. She was going to lose Adrian.

“It will be alright. I’ll take care of everything. Don’t go back into that building. Wait for my agent, Grant, to get there. I’ll call you back with an update.” Dominic hung up.

Kelsey glanced over at Xander. “We can’t wait. He doesn’t have that long.”

Xander nodded and pulled out his phone. “Cade, man, we need a serious distraction. Call all our boys and tell them to meet us at the playground a block up from the animal shelter in about forty minutes.”

“What the hell is going on?”

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