Reckless Games (Vigilante Kings Book 2) by Eva Chance & Harlow King

Author:Eva Chance & Harlow King [Chance, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2022-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

SIXTEEN

Madelyn

By the time I’d lowered the phone from my ear, my mind was spinning with everything Holand had told me. I barely saw the room in front of me.

“Maddie,” Logan said urgently, grasping my upper arm. “What’s going on? What happened?”

My mouth opened and closed a few times before I managed to propel sound out of it. “That was your dad. My mom—she was in a car accident. Bad enough that they rushed her to the hospital. She’s having some kind of surgery right now. She’s alive, but they don’t know what condition she’ll be in when they stabilize her.”

The last words came out in a croak. Beckett grabbed my other hand and squeezed, his eyes full of concern. “I’m so sorry, Maddie. Does she live nearby? Can you go see her?”

All of the guys had gathered around me. Slade was nodding. “Even if you have to miss classes tomorrow, the professors will totally understand.”

Through the blur of shock and worry in my head, a memory flickered up. My gaze dropped to my phone again, my fingers clenching around it.

Next time it might be fatal. Could they have meant…?

“I think—someone warned me,” I said, my chest constricting even tighter. “Warned me that this isn’t as bad as it could get. As if they had something to do with the accident.”

Dexter’s forehead furrowed. “What do you mean?”

I fumbled with the phone. “I got a text right before the phone call. It didn’t make any sense on its own, and it was from a number I didn’t recognize. ‘Next time it might be fatal,’ they said. They must have meant the accident. The timing was way too close to be a coincidence.”

“What the hell?” The menacing note I’d only heard in Logan’s voice a few times before—when I’d been attacked—rippled through the question. He leaned over to peer down at the screen. “Give me the number, and I’ll track the maniac down. We’ll find out who meets a fatal end then.”

My gaze flicked toward Beckett, hoping he took Logan’s statement as rage-fueled hyperbole rather than a literal plan of action, and then darted to my phone again. My trembling fingers managed to open my Messages app.

The first contact at the top was Summer. Then a text I’d sent to my lab partner earlier this afternoon. Then one from Dexter giving me an update on the guys’ observations of the footage from the cameras we’d planted. Slade, Mom, another lab partner, a tutorial leader who liked to communicate through text… I scrolled back two weeks and then up to the top again.

“It’s gone,” I sputtered. “I swear it was there. I couldn’t have made it up out of thin air.”

Logan frowned and held out his hand for the phone. “There are ways to time texts so they’re temporary,” he said as he double-checked my messages. “Most people don’t know how to do that, though.”

Slade’s expression had darkened too. “You got it right before the phone call about your mom?”

As I nodded, Beckett rubbed my back in an obvious attempt at comfort.

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