“WhenIgot the news there’d been another attempt on you, it was a miracleIkept him contained beforeIheard your voice over comm.”
“Who’s telling her family?”
“They live down inSkullBay.Setwent down to talk to them.”
Not an easy task.
PoorSet.
I nodded again becauseIdidn’t know what to say.
“I’ve talked withMammonandTomahs.They’removing their females to thePalace.Moniqueis being moved too.”
Tomahs wasGayle’sdad.Hermom, by the way, was namedElayne.
My body went solid at this news. “What?Why?”
“Whoever is behind this is targeting you.”
That was in no doubt.
“Yes.”
“And you’ll be at thePalaceuntil we get to the bottom of this, and thePalaceis impenetrable.”
I didn’t like where this was going.
“So, if whoever this is means to hurt me, or hurt you by hurting me, andI’mnot available, they might cast a wider net by hurting someone close to me,”Ideduced.
He pulled in a sharp breath through his noise, but he didn’t confirm, becauseIdidn’t need him to confirm.
Yep.
I didn’t like this at all.
“Do you think this isArnaud’ssuper farged-up way of saying, ‘You’remessing with me having the femaleIwant, soI’mgoing to take out your female’?”
“Darling— he started, then stopped.
“What?”
“Fuck,” he said under his breath, turning his gaze from mine.
I pressed into his chest with my hand.
“What?”Idemanded sharply.
“Fuck,” he repeated.ButbeforeIcould ask again, he shared, “Fannonsaw the shooter.”
“And?”
“He says he could swear he wasn’t aiming at you.”
“So, this was some random shooting on the street?Thathasn’t happened since weapons were banned over a hundred years ago,”Isaid.
“No, he says he thinks the shooter was aiming atAntheme.Geleenadidn’t have an open angle, but from what she saw, she shared it looked the same asFannonclaims.”
I blinked. “Whywould someone be aiming atAntheme?”
