CHAPTER 31

LENA POV.My father’s office had never felt so small.Hugo sat behind his desk with his hands folded, Ace paced the length of the window like something caged, and Amara had taken the chair beside mine, close enough that her knee touched my leg. She hadn’t let go of my hand since we came inside. I wasn’t sure which of us was holding the other up.“Walk me through it again.” Ace said, for the third time. “From the guest house…” he started and waited for me to continue. “We left a little after ten.” I said. “I noticed the sedan when we stopped at the lights in the busy part of town, three cars back. It had been parked down the street from the guest house when we came out. Grey, nothing special. I didn’t think anything of it until it stayed behind us through two turns.” I explain.“And you couldn’t see the driver?” my father asked. “The windscreen was catching the sun. A man, I think, but I couldn’t swear to it.” I frowned at the carpet. “It was the scent. It came through the vents when w

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SLOANE POV.I didn’t take the pill that night.The bottle sat on the dashboard where I’d left it, its little white label facing me, and I stared at it for a long time before I turned the key. The pills made everything quiet, but I’d spent the last hour behind that petrol station trying to work out what I had seen on that road, and quiet was the last thing I needed. I needed to think.Steroids. That was the only answer that made sense, because the alternative was something I didn’t want to look at. Big men, fast men, a pack of them guarding a gate in the middle of nowhere. Whatever the Miltons were running out there, it was more than a rich family’s private estate. That didn’t frighten me as much as it should have. It made me angrier. They had built a wall around Amara and I couldn’t find a way through it.My phone buzzed against the seat.Where are you? I need a drink and someone who isn’t a Turner.Emily. I almost smiled. She had been texting me on and off for days, ever since I’d bu

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AMARA POV.I woke to the sound of rain. For a moment I didn’t know where I was, only that the bed was warm and something heavy was draped across my waist. Then it all came back: the sedan in the mirror, Lena’s white knuckles, Lilly’s name hanging in the quiet of the office. Ace’s arm was around me, and I realised I had fallen asleep holding his wrist and he had never moved it.It was dark outside. I must have slept through the whole afternoon and evening. “Don’t,” Ace murmured behind me, his voice rough with sleep. “You’re thinking too loudly.” He said and I blinked.“I’m not thinking at all.” I denied. “You are.” His thumb moved against my stomach through my shirt, a small, absent stroke. “I can feel it.” He said. I turned over to face him, and the breath caught in my throat. He looked younger asleep-rumpled, his black hair a mess, the sharpness gone from his jaw. His eyes were their ordinary silvery blue, and they were watching me with an expression I didn’t know what to do with.“Y

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