Page 77 of A Midnight Romance
The tail lights shine into the windshield of my car as she backs out. Flipping the ignition, I pull out of my spot near the stairs. Following close behind, we both drive out of the back parking lot and onto the city street.
My phone rings through the speakers. “You’re behind me, aren’t you?” she says the moment I answer her.
“Are you surprised?”
“I should be, but I’m not.” She chuckles softly. “Did you wait outside the entire time?”
“Of course I did,” I tease her, continuing to tail her as we both merge onto the highway.
“I have some information to tell you when we get home.”
Home.
The word falls from her lips and hits my ears like a ton of bricks, causing me to imagine things I don’t normally.
I let myself indulge in the possibility of having an average life and someone to share it with. But she’s not driven by the same things I am, and the more I live in a world where I let my thoughts entertain ideas of a future with her, I’m worried that as soon as the darkness from herrevenge dissipates, I’ll have to go back to watching her from afar. Because the only difference between me and the monsters I kill, is that I take their lives instead of innocents.
“Tell me.”
“You have zero self-control.”
“Only with you.”
“You’re incorrigible,” she says, and I can hear the smile in her voice before her tone turns serious. “Stevie saw on the news, the accountant’s wife reported him missing.”
“I know. Which means the police will start looking into his associates.”
She says something but my attention halts when a small BMW swerves into my lane, pulling between Lux and me.
What the fuck?
“I think there’s someone following you, stay on the line.”
“What?”
“Don’t panic. I’m right here and I won’t let anything happen to you.”
I drive into the left lane, hoping to get a glimpse while keeping my eyes on Lux’s Porsche. I maintain a safe distance since this highway is usually desolate except for residents that live up the hill or hikers.
I jerk my car past the white line as if to hit the BMW, but it veers away before back into the lane behind Lux.
Who the hell is this?
As we get closer to the manor, I call Sebastian.
He barely answers when I rush out, “We’re close to the manor, but a white BMW has been tailing Lux since we pulled out of her sister’s neighborhood.”
“Do you think it’s Andrew or one of his guys?”
“I have no fucking idea. Can you meet us at the bottom of the hill?”
“On my way,” he says. “I’ll tell Wayne in the security tower, too.”
I hang up just as I see the car follow Lux onto my property. I speed up and swerve in front of the foreign car, effectively cutting them off from Lux as we all turn off the highway to approach the security gate leading to our property.
With my gun drawn, I jump out of my car and rush to the driver’s side. “Get the fuck out of the car!”
“River?” I hear Lux’s trembling voice behind me.
