Chapter 81

Kai arrived back in the city three days later. Eric sent a couple of the bodyguards to pick him up from the airport, while he and a couple of others stayed behind with us.

When they arrived, Kaiden and I were standing at the front lobby of the building, peaking through the drawn blinders and watching the black car park along the street. I held Kaiden’s arm firmly in my grasp so that he didn’t run out the way I knew he wanted to. The way both of us wanted to, frankly. My entire body vibrated with the need to run—though I was not sure in which direction. I was anxious and terrified all at once.

Kaiden gasped when he saw his father emerge from the reasonably sized car. Two guards flanked him on either side.

“It’s Dad!” he jumped, trying to free himself from my grasp. “I want to go to him.”

“He’s coming right in, sweetheart,” I tried to soothe him, running my hand down his hair as we watched a