“Get in!”
I did not question miracles when they arrived with leather seats.
Sophia and I threw ourselves into the back. Nina hit the gas before the doors had fully closed.
For three blocks, no one spoke.
Then Nina glanced in the rearview mirror and saw Sophia.
“Oh, absolutely not.”
“She’s with me,” I said.
“I hate that sentence.”
“So do I.”
Nina’s phone was mounted on the dashboard, a call already active.
A male voice came through the speaker. “Nina, tell me you did not just flee a residence after a gunshot.”
Nina glanced at me. “Madison, meet my brother, Gabriel Reyes.”
The name struck me with unexpected force.
Gabriel Reyes.
I knew him.
Not personally. Professionally. He was the federal prosecutor who had brought down a hospital billing fraud network two years earlier.
His voice sharpened. “Madison Carter is with you?”
“Yes,” Nina said.
“And Sophia Bennett?”
Sophia shut her eyes.
“Yes,” Nina said.
Gabriel exhaled. “Wonderful. I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that for five seconds. Then you are going to tell me everything.”
My phone vibrated.
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