Chapter 123

Nora POV

David’s eyes are already on me before I even hang up the call and lower the phone. He doesn’t ask who it was. He doesn’t have to. The way my shoulders stiffened told him everything.

“No,” he says before I can even open my mouth.

I slide the phone back into my pocket and meet his gaze. “I didn’t say anything yet.”

“You didn’t have to. Your face did.” He shifts against the pillows, wincing as the movement pulls at the incision line beneath the thin hospital gown. “You’re not going.”

“You know I have to.”

“No. You don’t.” His voice stays low, but final. “Vincent Calder is the last person on earth you should be meeting in an abandoned warehouse at midnight. Especially not alone.”

I drag the chair closer until my kne