Chapter 119. Hook, Line, & Sinker

“Rosie?” Edward called out, his nervous and hesitant voice echoing through the loudspeaker. “Are you there?”

Hayden, Jared, and Beck exchanged apprehensive looks. Edward was beginning to sound fed up, the fragile stability of his relief already starting to fray.

“You don’t want to tell me where you are?” His voice took a darker, suspicious edge. “Or does he still have you under his spell?”

 Myla winced at how fast his tone had gone from loving and concerned to suspicious. The late Rosie had really tried to control a man whose emotions were like a keg of gunpowder.

“No,” Myla quickly responded. “It's just that I… I can’t,” she whispered, injecting fear into her voice.

Edward drew in a breath, his mood immediately shifting back into concern once more. “What? Why?”

Myla knew the only way she could get him to see things from her side and listen to whatever she said to him was to keep his mind on high alert. To keep his savior complex runnin