As Dust Dances by Samantha Young

Author:Samantha Young [Young, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: As Dust Dances
Publisher: Samantha Young
Published: 2018-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

I held up the phone to her, suddenly no longer distracted from the suspicious bruising on her forearm. “The ex?”

Her expression tightened and I saw the flash of something I really did not like in her dark eyes. “Ignore it. I’ll talk to him later.”

The phone rang off in my hand anyway.

Then it rang again.

I stared at her as she stared at the phone, growing paler by the second. Eventually Darren stopped calling. But then it started ringing immediately again.

“If you two have split up, why is he calling you so persistently?”

She swallowed hard. “Oh, he left some of his stuff at my place. We need to arrange for him to collect it.”

Autumn O’Dea needed a lesson in how to lie.

Her phone buzzed and a message from Darren popped up.

If you don’t pick up . . .

Damn! I was only getting the preview. Was that a threatening message?

“Give me the phone.”

“What does his text say?”

Autumn frowned. “Nosy much?”

Okay, something was wrong. My gut told me so.

Reading my expression, she looked past me and into the kitchen. “Is that the time? Wow. I . . . uh . . . I told Killian I’d come into the office to give him an opinion on . . . on something.” She got up and put her mug on the island before scrambling to get her boots back on.

She didn’t look at me the entire time.

“Autumn . . .”

“You’ll call if you need me?” She kissed my cheek, not meeting my eyes, and was out of the apartment within seconds.

Shit.

I gazed across the room at my cell.

There was nothing on this earth that could compel me to call Killian.

Except fear for his little sister’s safety.

What if I was wrong though? I bit my lip. What if my gut was wrong that some guy she’d dumped for manhandling her didn’t know how to back off? Killian had proven he was willing to get his hands dirty to protect someone, and I was sure whatever he dealt out on Autumn’s behalf would be a hundred times worse.

If I didn’t make him aware that there was possibly something to be worried about, and then this guy did turn out to be dangerous, I’d never forgive myself.

And honestly, I knew I was right.

Autumn was acting jumpy, the bruising, the persistent calling, the possibly threatening text . . .

Screw it. I crossed the room and grabbed my cell. My hands shook a little as I pressed speed dial and held the cell up to my ear.

It rang.

He was ignoring me?

I didn’t know why that surprised or hurt me, but it freaking did. Scrolling through my contacts, I dialed his office.

“Good morning, Skyscraper Records, Mr. O’Dea’s office, how may I help?” Eve answered on the second ring.

“Eve, it’s Skylar. I need to speak to O’Dea.”

“Oh, hi, Skylar,” her voice got a little high-pitched with excitement. “It’s great to hear from you.”

“Uh, thanks, you too.”

There was an awkward silence.

“So . . . Is O’Dea there?”

“Oh. Right. Oh . . . well .

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