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we came down here.”
    “ Ky told me she held Alex’s hand the whole time.”
    She smiled. “She did, although Alex was surprisingly calm, just like you.”
    He laughed softly.
    “ Everything was so surreal,” she continued. “We took the elevator down to the basement to get Nicholas, and he was asleep.”
    “ Asleep?”
    “ Yes. I was so irritated with him. If I was younger, I probably would’ve kicked his ass. If he’d been watching the damn security monitors, maybe this could’ve been avoided.”
    “ I’ll have to talk to him about his sleeping on the job. It doesn’t sit right with me either. Which staircase did you use from the attic?” he asked, in an abrupt change of subject.
    “ The hidden set behind the curtain. I know Chase told me not to use them yet because they weren’t finished, but we didn’t have any choice.”
    “ Were the kids scared?”
    She sighed, thinking of the frightened looks on their faces. “They were. And Sara was terrified, especially when I told her where we were going. Everything worked great, though. All the walls and doors worked. I have to give Chase another hug and thank him for giving me such good instructions.”
    Dro ran his fingers through her hair and down her back again. She lay back on his chest as he pulled a blanket around them.
    “ We got here and Chase came shortly after with CJ,” she said. “I was so worried, Dro. I hate to think what would have happened if that dream hadn’t woke me.”
    “ Me, too.” He kissed forehead, then her nose. “My life would have been over.”
    She swept her hand across his chest. “I can’t believe they came here. Someone from inside the Martinez organization has to be helping them. How else would they have known where we were?”
    He arched a brow. “Nicholas is already running a check on all the employees. I want to find out who it is and make them pay. I’m just glad you were able to get out of there before anyone got hurt. If anything ever happened to you, I wouldn’t be able to take it.” He ran the back of his fingers down her face. “I might as well die too because I can’t see myself living without you.”
    “ Dro, you know I feel the same way. But we don’t know what’s going on, or who they were even after. We’ve done a lot of dirt throughout our lives. It could conceivably be anybody. And I hate to say it, but—”
    He held a finger against her lips. “Then don’t say it.” Sitting up on the edge of the bed, he bowed his head. “Baby, we know who they’re after. We just don’t know why.”
    She leaned her head against his shoulder. “We have to be prepared for anything. Dro? Look at me.”
    “ So you can tell me to prepare for living without you? There’s no way in hell that’s going to happen. I’m not going to sit here and listen to you give me dying wishes, Alexa. My life doesn’t work without you, so we are going to have to take steps to prevent that from happening. And we’re going to start by recognizing who this is really about.”
    She tried to pull away from him, but he wrapped his hand around her wrist. “Dro, I—”
    “ Don’t. Don’t pull away from me now.”
    “ I can’t do this right now,” she whispered.
    As he turned to face her, she swore when he looked at her, he could see her every part of her soul.
    “ Yes you can,” he said. “You have to do whatever it takes to protect our family.”
    She tried to escape his gaze. “I promised myself and my children I would never—”
    “ You promised them you would protect them at all costs.”
    She shook her head, ready to argue.
    “ Alexa, you promised me,” he insisted in a lethal tone. “You promised me you would be here with me. You promised that we would live and die together. Live and die. Together. That means you can’t die unless I’m dying too.”
    “ Dro, that’s not fair. You know things aren’t the same as they were then. I’m not the same person.”
    “ Do you deny there is a problem