I’m not leaving Afghanistan till I make Caleb Fawn fall in love with me.

Shouldn’t be too onerous, proper?

Chapter 15

Boxcar

Now

“Caleb?”

I knock softly on her door. The journey again was excruciatingly lengthy, principally due to the time I spent in my head planning out what I used to be going to say to her. I’ve all of it discovered. Just a few variations of phrases Fox advised me plus a lot extra of my very own private issues that I’d solely ever say out loud to her and nobody else.

I simply need to see her face and it’ll all come out.

“Caleb?”

I attain for the doorknob and twist it, feeling a sudden bolt of shock because the factor pushes open. Certain, Caleb is the one one who lives on this constructing, however I doubt she’d depart her door unlocked, particularly with the road entry on the backside of the steps. I step inside and go searching as one other stab of guilt plunges deep.

The room is strictly as I left it. The bedsheets are nonetheless flung about. The pillows are ruffled. My nostril fills with the very scent of her, sufficient to make me halt in my sneakers and take discover. Similar to it at all times did because the second I met her.

“Caleb?”

I examine the lavatory, however she isn’t there both. She might have gone out. If not, there’s just one different place she could be and that’s downstairs in her store. I smile, remembering that there’s just one factor that by no means did not calm down her. If I have been a betting man, that’s precisely the place she’d go after what simply occurred between us.

I head for the again of her loft to the staircase main right down to her store.

“Shit…” I mutter, trying round. “Shit.”

Damaged glass. Toppled merchandise. Bullet casings.

No matter occurred right here, it wasn’t good.

And worse, it’s my fault.

“Caleb!”

I lookup, scanning the corners for a safety digital camera. There’s one in every nook and two extra that cowl the money register and the entrance entrance.

I rush to the administration workplace within the again, biting my cheek within the hopes that they aren’t simply dummy cameras to discourage theft. Caleb’s simply cussed sufficient to not put money into a system and given the state of her financial institution accounts, she most likely justified the non-expense of not having one.

The previous workplace has two desks, one with essentially the most historic CRT monitor sitting on prime. The monitor blinks as I flick it on, virtually puttering out utterly. It will definitely kicks on, together with the VHS participant related to it with a tape inside labeled Sunday.

I shake my head, promising to put in one thing a hell of loads higher than this when that is throughout.

I rewind the tape and there she is.

Lilah Hart.

Each ounce of air dispels from my lungs. My coronary heart expands a number of sizes, able to explode with anger.

From what I can see, Lilah managed to interrupt in by way of the alleyway exit behind the constructing simply minutes after I walked out.

Goddammit.

I ought to have stayed.

Why didn’t I keep?

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