Chapter 14 · Smile for the Cameras, Wife

The coordinate moved again.

Nora stared at the red dot crawling across the city map on Caden's tablet. It had started beneath her mother's old house. Now it was three blocks away, heading straight toward them.

"Tell me that's a glitch," she said.

Caden pressed one burned hand against his ribs. Blood had soaked through the white shirt under his jacket, but he still looked irritatingly calm. "It's tracking you."

"You knew it could do that?"

His jaw tightened.

That was answer enough.

Nora snatched the tablet from him. The map shook in her grip, though she blamed the adrenaline. The red dot pulsed in time with the ache under her skin. Every beat sent heat through her arms and down into her fingers.

Her ring was gone. Caden had taken it off her after the vision, after her mother's face had appeared inside the fire and said the one thing Nora couldn't stop hearing.

Don't let him put you to sleep again.

She looked at him. "What did you put in that ring?"

"A seal."

"Try again."

"A restraint."

The answer hit harder than it should have.

Caden leaned against the table.