Chapter 292

Logan gestured to Matt with a sharp jerk of his head. The cowboy nodded, then slipped out the back door. Laila’s mind whirled. Amid the mental chaos, she tried to devise a plan, discarding possibilities and nailing down more viable options while following Trees’s still-moving blue dot. A plot began to take shape.

Minutes later, Matt entered again and stepped aside. Valeria appeared, holding a sleepy Jorge. Kane stood right behind them, on alert, gun in hand.

“Were you followed?” Hunter barked to Kane.

The man with the mustache shook his head. “Hardly anyone on the streets at this hour.”

Hunter and his brothers visibly relaxed as they locked the door.

Valeria ignored them, searching her surroundings. When Laila met her gaze, her sister gave her an imitation of a smile. To fool everyone else? It wasn’t fooling her.

They met in the middle of the room, hugging as if they hadn’t seen each other in weeks, rather than yesterday. Still, with everything th