Tell me where he is. I need to know who has my baby.
Selfish woman, you don’t care about any of us.
Bile burned my throat. Couldn’t Maddox see how this hurt? Couldn’t he see that I was a heartbeat away from coming undone again? He’d been so good at noticing before. Now, anger clouded his mind. He wasn’t the man I knew.
Voice cracking under the pressure of all the ghosts around me, I said, “Go. If you reveal yourself at the station, understand the Pack will have to put you down.”
I didn’t stay to hear what Maddox had to say in response. I ran from him, from the ghosts, from this mess. My footsteps were shaky, and I nearly fell, but I somehow managed to keep my head up the whole time.
Maddox
I sighed.
I knew that I should follow her, but I looked down at the paper in my hand. The killer hid among my coworkers. The idea that this killer was one of my friends started a cold fire in my chest. The fire burned bright and spread to every part of my being until I was nothing but cold rage.
Tightening my fist again, I looked up. Addie was gone.
That was fine. I didn’t need her in order to hunt this man down. If I went ahead and caught him, then she would be safe once and for all.
Lifting the paper to my nose, I breathed deep one last time. With the killer’s scent committed to memory, I went to work.