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“Babe, just swing the vase and run for the stairs. You can do this.”

“I need you.”

“As much as it pains me to say this, hun, there is nothing I can do. You’re on your own.”

I gulped. “Ok,” I muttered. I was on my own. Me and this vase.

“You ready?”

“Yep.”

The door handle stopped wiggling. I took a deep breath and then gripped the vase tighter. The very next second, the door broke open, and I swung the vase at his head and then ran for my life.

Chapter 36

Abby

If I knew then what I knew now, I would have hit him harder. If it wasn’t bad enough, I had twisted my ankle rushing down the stairs. Now I was sitting here with a dressing gown on and ice on my ankle, and I was still not ready to talk.

“Miss Harrison, if you could just assist us in our questions, then we could leave quicker.”

“Sorry Officer, I didn’t catch your name.” My words were bitter. “All I got was you invading my house in the middle of the night, bashing down one of my doors and not announcing who you are.”

“It’s Senior Sergeant Jeffery, and as I was saying, we just want to know the whereabouts of Kade Wilson.” He was professional and calm about it while I wanted to strangle him.

“Well, if you let me answer my phone, you can have the pleasure of talking to him.”

“Fine, hand her the phone,” he ordered, and another officer handed it to me.

It hadn’t stopped ringing since I hung up by accident when I was falling down the stairs.

I answered it on the second ring. “Kade, I’m fine. It was the police, and they want to talk to you?”

“They broke into our house. They busted down a door. They made you fall. And now the fuck they want to talk to me?”

“How did you know I fell?”

“Heard it. Abby, you ok?”

“Twisted ankle.”

“Fine, put them on.”

I handed the phone out to Senior Sergeant Jeffery. “Really would hate to be you right now,” I smirked with satisfaction because Reaper wasn’t in the mood for holding back.

***

It was early morning before the police left, and they left with the shits because they didn’t believe Reaper was on his way to Kelly. Why would he hide from them in the first place? It’s not like they had anything on him that we knew of.

I slept on the couch because I couldn’t limp upstairs. This morning, my ankle was much better and could take the weight, so I was still limping but able to move. I was making coffee when my phone rang.

“Morning, Kade.”

He huffed. “Some morning I’ve had. No fucking sleep and on the road at six. Just filling up with fuel now. How’s the foot?”

“Fine, I’m limping away.”

“Fucking bastards.”

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