Chapter 268

James isn’t happy, but he also doesn’t have a better idea.

So I finally convince him later that evening to drive me to the

luxury hotel where I know Ryker has been staying.

We don’t say much to each other during the long drive.

I can tell James wants to convince me not to do this, while I

want to ask about Jessica.

However, I know that puts James in an awkward position, she

his sister, after all. It wouldn’t be fair to expect him to not respect her privacy or whatever.

So we sit there in strained silence with the weight of all the things we’re not saying hanging between us.

Instead of using the valet service at the front of the hotel, James insists on parking the car himself nearby, which leaves us about half a block away to walk.

As we’re approaching the hotel, a woman steps out through the revolving doors and gets into the back of a black town–car waiting for her.

I stop dead in my tracks as I realize it’s Karolina.

is she doing here?

that she’s just stepped out of the same hotel where Ryker

and restaurant, so I

the fact that Ryker is staying

telling me

here, and I wonder

Aaron and the Council

I’m now a

to get to the bottom of all this,

determination, I march into the hotel

suite where

it makes me wonder about the kind of life he lives where he can’t even stay at a hotel without bodyguards

of the

speaks into a wire

nod and let us in, since apparently Ryker

spectacular view over the city and out toward the snow–capped mountains in

is standing by the bar to one side of

says with a smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “Can I get either of

murmurs a polite refusal, and takes up a stance near the inside of the door.

you’re drinking,” I tell

cross the room.

before

drink over to hand to me.

I have to admit, I’m surprised to see

in my chest I get whenever anyone mentions

expression sobering. “I’m sorry,

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