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Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 12
Neither of us said much for the rest of the drive.Cassian pulled into the bunker's access road just as the sky started going gray at the edges, that flat, colorless hour before sunrise where everything feels unfinished. He killed the engine and just sat there for a second, hands still on the wheel, staring straight ahead like the windshield had answers written on it somewhere."We need to talk about priorities," he said finally."I know what you're going to say.""Then say it back to me, so I know we're actually on the same page."I let out a breath. "You want me to stop chasing the woman and focus on the bunker. Supplies. Water. Getting this place actually livable in six days instead of running around downtown at midnight listening at doors.""That's exactly what I want," he said. "And I want it because it's the right call, not because I'm trying to control you.""I know that.""Do you?" He turned to look at me properly for the first time since the alley. "Because from where I'm sit
Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 11
I didn't answer. I didn't breathe.I took the last few stairs two at a time, boots barely touching concrete, praying the door at the bottom hadn't locked automatically behind me on the way in.It hadn't.I hit the side door at a dead run and burst out into the alley just as I heard the stairwell door bang open above me, Emeric's voice echoing down through the concrete, sharper now, closer to panic than I'd ever heard it."Hey! Stop!"I didn't stop.I sprinted across the street, not toward my car, that would've given him a direct line straight to me, but around the block instead, ducking behind a row of dumpsters outside a closed bakery, heart slamming so hard against my ribs it actually hurt.Footsteps. Fast, uneven, somebody moving without really knowing which direction to move in.I pressed myself flat against the brick, hand over my own mouth like that could somehow make me smaller, quieter, less real."You see anyone?" Marisol's voice, from somewhere near the building's front entr
Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 10
I stayed in the car for four minutes.I know because I watched every second crawl across the dashboard clock.Marisol and the woman had disappeared through the apartment building's front door, and I was still sitting there with both hands wrapped around the steering wheel.None of it made sense.The woman from the hotel.With Marisol.Going into Emeric's apartment.I let out a breath.“What the hell?”My phone buzzed.Cassian.Well? You still out there?I typed back.The woman from the hotel is here. She just walked in with Marisol.His reply took a few seconds.You're sure?Yes.Don't go inside.I stared at that message.Then another came through.Delphine.I sighed.I said I wasn't going inside.That wasn't exactly true.I was already looking at the building's side entrance.I'd been there once before. Emeric had brought me to the apartment a little over a year ago and told me it belonged to one of his business partners.He'd said he used it when work kept him downtown too late to d
Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 9
“There’s an address on the invoice.”Cassian was crouched beside the cement mixer, turning the crumpled receipt between his fingers.The crew had already left. He’d gotten the receipt from one of the workers by giving him twenty dollars and telling him it was for insurance.“Riverside Holdings,” he said. “You know it?”I shook my head.“Should I?”“Probably not.” He stood and brushed the dust from his knees. “I’m going to check it.”“You think it’s fake?”“I think whoever paid for this didn’t want their name attached to it.”He folded the receipt and put it in his jacket.Then he looked at me.“You okay?”I almost laughed.“No.”His eyebrows lifted.“At least you’re honest.”“I don't have time to not be okay.”That got the smallest twitch from the corner of his mouth.My phone buzzed.I looked down.Emeric.Dress fitting at two. Mom's orders, not mine. Don't be late.My stomach tightened.Cassian noticed.“What?”“Wedding dress fitting.”His expression changed immediately.“You have t
Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 8
Cassian was pacing the bunker's main room when I got back, boots echoing off concrete, and the second he saw me his whole body went rigid with something that wasn't relief."Where the hell were you.""I left a note.""You left a note." He crossed the room fast, closing the distance between us in a handful of angry strides. "Back by noon, check the hotel on Ninth if I'm not. That's not a plan, Delphine. That's a goddamn eulogy waiting to happen.""I didn't want you following me.""That wasn't your call to make.""It was exactly my call to make," I snapped back. "It was my life on that pier, my name on that message—""Pier?" His voice dropped low and sharp. "You told me a hotel."I stopped. Shit."I lied about the location," I admitted. "In case somebody read the note before you did."For a second he didn't say anything, just stood there with his jaw working, and when he finally spoke it came out quieter, which somehow landed harder."I would've gone with you," he said. "You didn't even
Doomsday Wedding: He Took My Sister,I returned with A system 7
I barely slept.I lay there most of the night with my phone face-up on the pillow beside me, rereading the same two messages until the words stopped meaning anything.I know you found the folder.Meet me tomorrow. Alone. Don't bring the man from the bunker.They knew about Cassian. Somehow, they'd known I'd bring him into this before I even had. That thought sat in my chest all night like something with weight to it."Fuck," I said out loud, to nobody, and got up to make coffee I didn't actually want.I didn't tell him where I was going. I almost did, three separate times, his name already pulled up on my phone. But the message had been clear, and something told me clear wasn't a threat this time. It was a warning. So instead I left him a note stuck to the bunker's inside door, vague enough to mean nothing to anyone else, specific enough that if I didn't come back, he'd know exactly where to start looking.Back by noon. If I'm not, check the hotel on Ninth.I didn't explain it. I told
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