Chapter 21: CONNOR

What the fuck? I only felt that tingle in my body when Dani was close, and she was at work on the other side of town. I got my shit and was about to call her to make sure she was okay.

I couldn't think of any other reason for my sensing her this strong when she wasn't here. A quick scan of the room didn't turn up anything, but it was as I was leaving that I heard her voice. She sounded...upset?

I walked around the huge potted plant that blocked a part of the room from view, and my heart stopped. She was sitting at a table with some stuffed shirt who seemed to be playing tug of war with her hand.

My first instinct was to fuck everybody's shit up. I couldn't see through the red haze that covered my eyes as I set my body in a fighter stance. But it was her next words that pulled me back from the brink just a little.

"Quit it, Robert. I thought you said you needed to talk."