Chapter 152. Stay with Me, Teyana

Jeremy’s POV

My pulse punched against my throat. Knox knew where Teyana was. Hope swam through me. I couldn’t have been more grateful that I once hired Knox for her. The questions rushed out of my lips—“Where are you? Where is she? I’m coming right away…”

Zayne asked questions beside me but I could only listen to Knox.

“The Old Ridge Junction. But listen…” he said quickly. I heard wind in the background, like he’d been running. “I was tailing your girlfriend earlier today. Just keeping a distant check—old habits, and mainly because the car that came to pick her up had no plate number. But then I got a call… from the hospital.” His voice cracked. “My mum passed this afternoon.”

My chest tightened. “Knox… I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine,” he said, inhaling sharply. “She’d been sick for the last two years, it wasn’t unexpected. My point in telling you this is… during that call, I lost visual of the car Miss Teyana was in. By the time I refocused on the road,