🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart but also his life.🗝️
You're on your own, far from home
The wind is blowing in the top of the pines
A gloomy sky where the sun never shines
Deep...
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Ryker was still trembling.
Again and again, the tiny needles pricked his skin and dug into his nerves. His limbs felt numb, even though he had only been in the water for a short time. His breathing was still heavy and intermittent. His chest felt tight as Riona helped him into the house.
'Liam is fine,' he whispered to himself again.
Although the wild pounding in his heart and the adrenaline in his veins were slow to subside, the thought was like a huge boulder falling off his back.
It had been close. More than close. But it had turned out well in the end. That was all that mattered. Only now did his gaze linger a moment longer on Evelyn.
Ray watched as she hurried to free the little one from his soaked clothes and showered him with affection and love.
He heard her speak softly to Liam, expressing her concern and relief. Since she spoke softly and the noise was still in his ears, he could only understand her words in fragments. But that wasn't important. What was important was how she behaved. And again, he felt doubts creeping over him. More and more frequently, like shadows that inevitably clung to the light.
Riona supported Ryker until they were back at the cottage and up to his room on the first floor. "Get changed quickly. This house is wet enough as it is," she said with the humor that Ri obviously rarely put aside. Then she hurried up the stairs to the attic to tell her grandmother what had happened.
Ryker himself disappeared into his room. Far from everyone's eyes, only now did he groan as he slumped against the wall, took the weight off his leg, and inhaled the air with a hiss. He slowly removed his right hand from his chest and looked at his trembling palm. It was shaking and trembling... but not from the cold.
"Come on... come on..."
Ray gripped his own wrist, hoping to control the uncontrollable trembling. But no, his body wasn't obeying him. And wouldn't for a few more minutes, he knew. Not until the tablet took effect. Too much adrenaline, the fear for another person, paired with the overstraining of his body - a devastating mixture for him.
