CHAPTER 25
I watch Rooster run off into the woods with my shirt, feeling numb yet exquisitely vulnerable—terrified but without the usual heart-thumping dry-mouthed reaction. It’s disorienting.
Cue sits on the front steps, loading a long-range rifle, the scope poking from the top. Definitely military, right? Where had he been hiding that weapon? But even those questions inside my head are not enough to drag an emotional reaction from my depths. My nerves are shattered.
Mack and Ryder drag Yuri from the SUV and onto the porch—the guy’s hot with anger, spitting and cursing, but it won’t be long before he’s out of the picture. I sit just out of arm’s reach. “Too bad your only job was to bring me back. What are you going to do now?”
Yuri’s nostrils flare. He glares. I want to smile, but I m
