Guarding Autumn (Crimson Point Security Series Book 3) by Kaylea Cross

Author:Kaylea Cross [Cross, Kaylea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kaylea Cross Inc.
Published: 2025-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The stream of people exiting the hotel stalled around the front entrance, prevented from going any farther by the tightly packed crowd gathered outside. There were too many people between Autumn and the entrance for her to see it clearly and the wind had just changed direction, blowing the worst of the smoke straight at them.

She squinted and covered her mouth and nose with her forearm to try and block it out, struggling to wedge her way through everyone milling around the entrance in confusion. Sirens blared. People were shouting, but she couldn’t tell if it was the protesters in the street or due to the fire.

She shot an anxious glance up at the far end of the building. Black smoke drifted into the clear summer air, tongues of orange and yellow flames licking out from around the corner.

Heart hammering against her ribs, she looked back at the entrance and kept fighting her way closer. Did Jonas have Carly? Had they made it out, or were they still trapped inside? She didn’t know how extensive the fire was at this point, but it was already terrifying and would spread quickly if the fire crews didn’t get here fast.

The phone in her hand hadn’t buzzed, but she checked it for the dozenth time anyway. Still nothing from Jonas or Gavin.

The growing crowd pressed in tighter and tighter around her until she could hardly move, the sense of claustrophobia adding to the panic churning inside her. There was no sign of Jonas or Carly, and she now realized that trying to fight her way to the entrance through this mess was pointless.

She pivoted and pushed back through the crowd the way she’d come. The sirens stopped suddenly, signaling that the fire crew was finally on scene.

She felt like a fish trying to battle its way upstream as she slowly made her way toward the far edge of the swelling crowd until she had enough room to move. The fear kept building, the frantic need to find Carly a constant scream in her head.

Skirting the perimeter, she headed for the far side of the crowd, scanning the entire time for any sign of her daughter. And when she got close enough to see the scene unfolding on the street, her stomach clenched.

It looked like a war zone. The responding fire trucks were stuck down the street, unable to get any closer to the hotel because of the chaos. A wall of angry protesters rushed past the burning hotel carrying what looked like Molotov cocktails, heading in the direction of the conference center.

“Autumn!”

She whipped around. Through the shifting sea of bodies, she spotted Jonas’s head for an instant before the frightened crowd swallowed him back up.

“Jonas!” She raised her arm, waved it frantically as she began shoving her way toward him. A flash of red-gold hair appeared off to the right. Her heart leapt, then sank when she realized it wasn’t Carly.

Jonas reappeared. He must have spotted her because he raised his arm and started in her direction.

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