Coming Home by Emrys Apollo

Author:Emrys Apollo [Apollo, Emrys]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

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He's anxious in the elevator but he's alone the whole time, nods at the security guard on his way out. He thinks about calling Tania, getting a car to drive him over, but he doesn't want to put anyone else in danger. He steps outside, starts crossing the street and heading towards the company building. Roy's been gone for about twenty minutes. Lucas tries to imagine what he's doing right now - he has to be there already, he still can't be driving -

There's a car wheeling around the corner and Lucas catches sight of it, the white SUV he's seen before outside Callister's home and he's about to run, about to take off because he can't deal with them now, he has to get to Roy and he throws a punch when he sees one, misses and stumbles forward. There's a cloth over his mouth and nose, chloroform maybe? He can’t be sure…

The last thing he thinks before he passes out

Roy, Roy…

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They’re kicking him for what feels like hours when suddenly, the door is opening, creaking open and his heart rages in his chest, threatens to give out if he lets Callister hurt him again, and he closes his eyes and tunes it all out, the door the footsteps the yelling his blood coursing and pumping in his veins and he imagines Roy, Roy's hands and smile, both of them in Louisiana, on the porch looking at the trees -

“Lucas.”

He flinches when two hands cup his face.

“Baby, open your eyes. Baby, it's me.”

Lucas thinks he could be hallucinating him, but he's never seen Roy look like this, and his hands feel the same, thumbs running across his cheekbones and making tracks in the blood.

“Lucas, I'm here,” Roy breathes. He looks around and Lucas follows his gaze - Callister's men are knocked out cold, and there's an abandoned pipe laying a few feet away. “Tania,” Roy calls, kneeling down to start undoing the ropes around Lucas’ ankles. “He's handcuffed - I need the key, help me find it.”

“I don't see anything - “ she calls back.

Lucas hears them both rustling around and his head pulses, feels like something is burrowing deep in his brain. He closes his eyes, tries to focus on Roy's hand on him. “Callister..” he whispers.

“Is he here?” Roy asks, kneeling down in front of him.

Lucas tries to shake his head, but he's not sure if he's actually doing it.

“Baby, is he here? Is he coming?” Roy rubs circles in his knee, doesn't seem to care about the puke there, the blood turning dark in the denim. “Tania! I need the key, we need to get him out of here.”

“Cops are coming, Roy, don't worry.”

She sounds so far away. He feels like he can hear Roy's heart beating, sees him disappear behind him and run shaking fingers over the handcuffs.

“Got it!” Tania yells.

Lucas sees her run up to Roy's side, and then they're uncuffing him and easing him out of the chair. It's like his head is

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