He hadn't recognized the number when his cell phone rang, but the instant Lohr said he had something Darus wanted, he knew exactly whose number it was. His stomach immediately tried to crawl into his shoes. And then, the got closer to his house, it tried to crawl from the depths of his bowels to the base of his throat, taking out his lungs and heart in the process. He'd started out with a brisk walk but quickly realized that turtle pace wasn't going to cut it and broke into a dead run. By the time he yanked open the gate leading to his courtyard, sweat had soaked through his shirt and dripped from his chin. The visual greeting him when he rounded the corner turned his overheated skin to ice. Lounging on the outdoor sofa, Lohr had Clare wrapped tightly in one arm, a gun gripped casually in his hand. She looked scared and pissed at the same time. Her blue eyes wide, her body rigid, her mouth pressed into a thin, angry line—it turned Darus' stomach, so recently trying to escape, into a quivering ball of nausea.
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