Chapter 64
JACE MARINO
I kept my eyes on the road, but my hand stayed close to the screen mounted on the dash. The CCTV feed from the safe house flickered every few seconds. The boys were in the kitchen. Julian was trying to pretend he wasn't scared. His friends were trying to pretend they weren't about to spiral.
I wasn't supposed to be checking it every two minutes, but I couldn't stop. My chest kept tightening in a way I hated. I have never been the type to panic. But every time Julian wasn't where he was supposed to be, something inside me got stupid.
Mateo leaned back in the passenger seat and sighed. "You keep looking at that like he's going to disappear."
"He might," I said.
Mateo didn't argue. He knew what I meant. We weren't in normal territory anymore. Everything had shifted the moment Takeda landed in New York. And now we were driving straight into the kind of meeting that could rewrite the whole board.
