chapter 13

LIA

Before my panic can fully consume me, he adds. "I will be back soon."

Only then do I come down from the mountain height of fear. I thought he meant he was leaving me here all by myself.

I nod my head. "If I ask you where you are going, will you tell me?"

He replies curtly. "You don't need to know," and I repress a sigh. What was I expecting?

A loud, jarring sound that has me clutching my chest infuses itself into the air.

My eyes move towards the origin of the sound before Grumpy sweeps a flip phone on the wooden table just by the door. No wonder the ringing tone is so loud.

He barks a single, "Yeah." A bit of silence then a curt. "On my way." Then he snaps the phone shut.

Without a glance in my direction, he tosses a sentence over his shoulder. "There is a gun in the table's drawer. You know the rules, Heiress. Don't open the door until you confirm it's me."

Then he is gone leaving me in a deafening silence.

"Be safe." I let out in a whisper but he is already out of the ro