Gina
“Zander’s down.”
Two words.
That was all it took to make the room disappear around me.
I heard Michael shouting orders through the phone. I heard Lilo barking because I had jumped up so fast that I startled her. I heard one of the security guards outside my room asking if I was okay, but none of it mattered.
“Michael, talk to me.”
Nothing.
“Is he shot?”
More shouting.
Then Michael finally came back. “I don’t know yet.”
My stomach dropped.
“What do you mean you don’t know?”
“My team is entering the building. Stay where you are.”
“Stop telling me to stay where I am!”
The security guard appeared in the doorway.
“Miss Lombardi—”
“No.”
I grabbed my shoes.
“Ma’am, I have strict instructions—”
“My boyfriend may have been shot.”
“We don’t know that.”
“Exactly!”
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