Chapter 405: On Edge

Walker's POV:

The shake of her head and the look in her eyes tell me not to speak, not to react, not to move at all. She increases the volume of her voice.

"How is she?"

John looks at me, I feel it more than see it as my eyes only see Kentley. I drop a hand to his shoulder, an order not to react.

He looks back down at the papers in front of him, although his ears are still undoubtedly trained on her voice.

"Are you going to tell me where you are?" she asks.

She's quiet, presumably he's talking and then she looks away from me. I'm almost across the room in a second in response.

"We've met? At the supermarket?" I'm frozen still as I watch her listen to him. "Sure."

Then she's dropping the phone from her ear. She's barking out orders at me.

"Call my dad. He needs to come here, now."

Whatever he's told her, it's caught her out and broken her usually composed appearance.

Then she's back on the phone.

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"D*MN IT," she says when whoever she's calling doesn't pick up.