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“Are you crazy? You can’t—”
“I am,” I stated firmly—crazy and going to Chicago. “I’ll be in Canada before the sun comes up.”
“You’re talking crazy, Draven.”
“I’m doing what needs to be done.”
“So you’re just going to leave?”
“Yeah.”
“Without saying goodbye?”
“This is goodbye.”
“You couldn’t be man enough to tell me to my face?”
“I’m not a man, Calla.”
“You may think that you have no heart, but you’re wrong. It doesn’t need to beat for me to know that you think with it.”
“My heart has nothing to do with this,” I lied. It might not beat in my chest, but it had everything to do with me leaving.
“Bullshit, Draven. Bull fucking shit.”
Then, she hung up.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
How dare he.
How fucking dare he!
I was fuming when I hung up my office phone. Draven may think that the only way to solve our problem was to sacrifice himself, but that was bullshit. There was no way that I was going to let him go back to the monster that killed his girlfriend in front of him and made him kill his own family.
I wasn’t going to just let him go. There had to be another way.
“He told you?” Athan asked as he instantly appeared and then leaned against the doorjamb of my office door.
“You know?”
“Of course I know. I’m not letting him go alone.”
I rounded my desk and went straight for him, pushing at his chest. He didn’t budge. “And you didn’t stop him?”
“How was I supposed to do that?”
“I don’t know!” I huffed. “How does he think this is a good idea?”
“I don’t know.” Athan shrugged. “My plan is to talk to him more while we drive. It will take us at least four nights to get there, and I’m hoping to change his mind.”
“This is ridiculous.” I snatched my purse off of my desk. “You two are fucking ridiculous.”
“Where are you going?” he asked as he followed me down the hall.
“To stop him,” I roared.
“How are you going to do that?”
