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Chapter 128: Under attack

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EMMA

“Emma.”

Rhys’s voice cut through the ringing in my ears a second time, louder, closer to panic than I had ever heard him.

I opened my mouth. My throat was dry. Nothing came out at first.

“Emma!”

I forced myself onto my knees. Glass from the ruined window glittered across the floor. Smoke was already drifting in from somewhere deeper in the house.

“I’m here!”

The words came out hoarse, almost lost under the noise. Footsteps hammered down the hallway. I stared at the blown-out frame of the
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    EMMA We were still standing there when the headlights cut through the trees.The car stopped a short distance from the wreckage. One of the men got out and waited. Rhys’s hand found the small of my back.“Time to go.”I let him guide me to the back seat. Cade slid in on my other side. Theo took the front. The doors closed and the car pulled away from what was left of the safe house. I kept my face turned toward the window until the smoke and the last of the flames disappeared behind us. No one spoke much. The only sounds were the tires on the road and the low murmur of the radio.Somewhere past the second hour my eyes started to close on their own. I tried to keep them open. I didn’t want to sleep and wake up somewhere I didn’t recognise. But the steady movement of the car and the solid weight of Rhys’s thigh against mine pulled me under anyway.I woke to the feeling of being lifted.My eyes opened on Rhys’s face above me. We were outside. Cool air. Trees. He had one arm under my kne

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