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The houses in the area sat on large lots, which meant there wasn’t a lot of traffic, either of the foot or car variety So that would work injacket I earing It was unseasonably war, so the jacket wasn’t necessary to protect against the weather

But it was very necessary to hide the gun at my back

As I rounded the corner of the street Caleb was on, I expected that I’d either have to knock on the door of the house he was at or find a spot and wait for him to come out, but that wasn’t the case

At all

No, in fact, Caleb was standing right out in the open, completely impossible to miss

Because not only was he standing on the ay leading up to the house, he had a gun in his hand that was pointed at aless than a dozen feet from him

What the hell?

“Please,” theto shield his chest

Caleb didn’t speak or move He had the hood of his jacket up over his head, but I kneas his I sao rush around the opposite corner, her phone at her ear She kept looking over her shoulder as she ran I had no doubt who she was on the phone with

Which meant I had a et Caleb out of there before the cops arrived

My adrenaline was firing throughin me not to call his name

“Please!” the man whispered fiercely When Caleb didn’t respond to hiun on him, the man shouted, “I can’t help you!”

I was close enough to see that Caleb’s ar I couldn’t see his face, but I didn’t need to because everything I couldn’t see, I heard in his voice as he softly said, “You promised”