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My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 130
Killian DavenportThe warehouse comes into view as a low black shape against the tree line near the stream.No signage. One service door lit by a dying exterior bulb. A van idles near the side ramp with its engine off. The guard who knows the roads cuts our lights early and rolls the last stretch on momentum. Ronald’s voice is already low in the passenger seat, diverting the rest of the team into a wider net around the building. Ian stays in the car with the laptop. The rest of us move.The air outside smells of wet concrete and river mud. My pulse is too loud in my ears. I force it down into the same narrow channel I use for everything that cannot be allowed to shake. Fear does not help her. Precision might.We breach through a side access. The interior is a grid of stacked pallets and sheeted machinery, dark except for emergency strips along the floor. Two figures break from cover near the back corridor. One raises a weapon. The suppressed shot from Ronald’s man drops him scre
My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 129
Killian DavenportEight hours.That’s how long Elena’s been gone. It is almost nine. Dark has settled fully over the villa, the kind of dark that turns ornamental gardens into useless scenery. Somewhere behind the polite lighting of the lounge, Nora is being kept occupied by staff who still believe this is a missing-guest situation instead of what it is. I have not corrected them. Containment holds only as long as fewer people understand the shape of the problem.The kidnappers’ window for demands has arrived. Ronald is already en route with the discrete team he trusts, men who do not ask unnecessary questions and do not file reports that travel upward. The IP work narrowed the origin to this town. Possibly closer than the town. We search outward from the villa without announcing it.A heavy vehicle rolls through the front approach, followed by Ronald’s car. Doors open. Men in dark clothing file out. Ronald reaches me first. Ian, the tech guy, is a step behind with a laptop bag
My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 128
Elena Carson I do not know how long I have been here.The concrete does not offer clocks. The barred window is the only measure I have, and even that lies by degrees. The light is shifting, thinning, changing color without ever giving me a number I can trust. Earlier the rectangle of sky was hard and bright. Now it has softened into the lower gold of late day. Sunset, or close to it. Hours, then. Unless I slept without noticing and the light is lying about the date as well.Nora will have come back to the garden by now. She will have seen the bags. She will have called my name in that sharp, annoyed way she uses when she thinks I am playing a joke, and then the annoyance will have broken when I did not answer. She will have called Killian. The thought of his face receiving that information is almost worse than the room. He will not stay still. He will tear through every option available to him with the same cold precision he brings to everything that threatens what he consid
My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 127
Killian DavenportThe text sits on the screen like a blade laid flat.If you want to see her alive, you will meet our demands.Around me the garden continues its ordinary Sunday performance, shade, trimmed hedges, the distant sound of water from the pool. Nora is watching my face with the kind of focus that means she already knows the message is bad. The security men hover a few steps back, waiting for instruction they are not qualified to handle. I do not give them any.I type with both thumbs, precise and stripped of anything that could be read as panic. This isn’t the right time to panic.Me: Proof of life. Now. Or this conversation is over.The message sends. No threat. No pleading. No excess. If they want leverage, they will have to show me the leverage is real.Nora steps closer. “What did they say?”“They have her. Or they want me to believe they do.” I lock the screen before she can read over my shoulder. “You tell no one. Not Nolan. Not our father. Not even Sharon or anyo
My Best Friend’s Brother Is My Professor—And He Wants Me 126
Killian DavenportSunday sits differently when she is on her way back.The board decision is still scheduled for tomorrow. The possibility of a suspended license is still sitting in the back of my mind. None of it touches the sharper fact that Elena’s trip from the weekend ends today and the penthouse will stop feeling oversized the moment she walks through the door. I want our evening to be right. I also know her well enough to understand she may not want a spectacle after two days of brightness. So I prepare for both.The reservation downtown is confirmed for eight, private corner table, the place with the view she once mentioned in passing and then forgot she had mentioned. At the same time the living room has been transformed. A decorator handled most of it before noon: low lights, arrangements of white and deep red roses. Crystal. The good cutlery. Candles. A private chef is due in an hour. Elena is due in two. If she wants to stay in, the night is already built. If she want
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Elena CarsonPacking takes longer than it should because neither of us is in a hurry to close the weekend.Nora folds the same shirt twice and then gives up, stuffing it into her bag with the decisive energy of someone who has decided wrinkles are a future problem. The suite still smells faintly of the citrus cleaner from this morning and the leftover sweetness of the fruit we never finished. Sunlight cuts across the unmade bed in clean white bands. For two days this room has been a small, private country.“I really needed this,” Nora says, sitting on the edge of the mattress to force a zipper shut. “Not the party. Not even the suite. Just… us. Without the rest of the noise.”“I know. Me too.”She looks up, softer than usual. “We should do it more. Before life gets worse at inventing reasons not to.”“We will.”We do a final sweep, chargers, the extra towels Nora swore she wouldn’t steal and then stole anyway because she’s that petty, my diamond necklace which never left my
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Killian Davenport Of all the women in New York, why did it have to be Elena Carson who walked into my classroom?I lean against my desk, arms crossed, watching her stand awkwardly in the middle of the empty lecture hall. Messy bun, slightly wrinkled blouse, flushed cheeks. She looks like
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Elena Carson KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK. I jolt awake, heart pounding. Ow. My head is killing me. I rub my temples and slowly register that I’m on the floor of my room. Not my bed. My hair is stuck to my cheek and there’s a dull ache behind my eyes that makes even breathing feel like effort. Everyth
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Elena CarsonIt’s been three days since Professor Davenport asked me to drop his class and I told him no.Three days of successfully avoiding him. Or maybe he’s been avoiding me. Either way, I haven’t seen him since that awkward confrontation in his office. But I hear his name everywhere I turn o
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Elena Carson I don’t wait for him to say anything else before I walk out of his office. The door clicks shut behind me, and I keep walking, fast and angry. My heart is hammering so hard I can feel it in my throat. My cheeks are burning too and my hands won’t stop shaking. I just need to get the
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