SLOANE
I thought I was going to die.
That was the honest truth of it. When they dragged me out of that car I thought that was it, that was the moment everything ended, and the only thing running through my mind the entire time was Cade. It was not the men holding my arms, not the road rushing past the window of the car they shoved me into or the fear sitting so heavy in my chest I could barely pull a breath through it. Just Cade. Just his face. Just please let Kade have him, please let him be okay, please, please, please.
And then the car stopped like it had hit a wall and the sounds outside were not sounds I had words for and then it was quiet.
Now I was standing on an empty road in the grey morning with my white blouse torn at the shoulder and my whole body shaking so hard my teeth w
