Chapter 57

• VEDA
• The ride into the city was unusually silent. I sat in the backseat of a blacked-out SUV, as far from Luca as I could get. One of the guys that took me from my sister's condo drove, his eyes constantly scanning the area around us and his gun lying on the seat beside him. It was the first thing I’d noticed when Luca had opened the door for me and I’d climbed into the vehicle.
• "Go ahead and try," he'd told me when I froze halfway into the car. "I dare you."