Dylan by Jo Raven

Author:Jo Raven [Raven, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Goodreads: 23596082
Published: 2015-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Dylan

Damn, why won’t Tessa tell me where she is? Let me go to her and make sure she’s okay? I feel like my skull is about to burst from the worry. I dig my thumbs into my eyes, as if that can make the headache go away.

I try calling her back, but no reply. Shit. I’m gonna kill that fucker for hurting her again. For scaring her.

“Dylan?” Teo is standing at the kitchen door, clutching Gino, his teddy.

“Go to bed, little man,” I bite out and struggle for control because I want to punch something and now is not the time. “I’m coming to tuck you in.”

As soon as he’s out of the room, I kick the table leg and bend over, bracing my hands on the scarred surface, trying to calm down. She doesn’t want me there with her. This sucks.

No. I’m not gonna lose Tessa. Not gonna happen.

Isn’t it too late to worry about that? a snide voice in my head whispers, and I let out a long breath.

I need to see her. To hell with it.

So I arrange for Charlie to keep an eye on the boys until I’m back. I tuck Teo in and promise to read him his favorite book another time, make sure Miles knows what to do if anything happens, that he has my number and won’t open the door to stranglers, all the while feeling like I’m slogging through quicksand.

Fuck, I can’t afford this now, this bone-deep exhaustion that’s hounding me. It feels like forever until I organize everything and call a cab to take me to Tessa.

Sitting in the back seat, I allow myself to lean back and close my eyes for one brief minute. I keep hearing her frightened voice telling me she found her creepy ex-boyfriend waiting for her at her apartment, and I wanna wring the motherfucker’s neck.

Fuck, fuck. If I’d known…

My anger rouses me, and I look out the cab window as we arrive at Audrey and Asher’s place. I pay and step outside. The cold bores into my bones, making my joins ache and creak. I ring the bell and shift from foot to foot, clenching my frozen hands inside my pockets. Feels like snow.

Feels like darkness and despair.

I shake my head to dispel the morose thoughts and ring again. Shit, it’s cold.

“Who is it?” Asher’s voice comes through the intercom.

“It’s me, Dylan. Can I come up?” He says nothing, so I say through chattering teeth, “I’m here to see Tessa.”

“We’re about to leave for the police station,” he says evenly, and I close my eyes, because that probably means I should leave. Damn. But then he says, “Come on up.”

He buzzes me in, and I enter the building, shivering so hard I think my joints will shake loose.

Of course there’s no elevator, and I start up the stairs. It takes me forever to reach the third floor. I’m actually seeing black stars floating around me by the time I knock on the door and a scowling Ash opens it.

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