Chapter 70

Leon’s first reaction was disbelief.

“How are you calling from Randy’s phone?”

The man on the other end didn’t bother with pleasantries. His tone was clipped, cold, carrying an unspoken command beneath every word.

“Don’t waste time on an irrelevant man. I’m sending you an address. Come alone. And Leon—don’t let Aric follow you.”

The call cut off with a sharp snap—no explanation, no chance for questions, no room for refusal.

On any other day, Leon would’ve hurled the phone across the room and ignored every last one of them.

But he wasn’t the kind of person who would risk someone else’s safety just to spite them.

And despite Jasper’s usual manners, if he was calling like this… something was wrong.

Leon couldn’t gamble on the possibility that someone might be in real danger.

He stood there for a few seconds, silent, his gaze drifting back to the bed.

Aric was still fast asleep, chest rising and falling in a steady rhythm, lashes casting a small, soft shadow across his cheek in the warm a