Keep Me Safe

Chapter 64

After devouring their lunch they bought at the Korean street fair, Spencer was hungry for something else. Toby.

Toby lay flat on the bed, his shirt long since removed, with his wife straddling his hips. She was in the midst of throwing her shirt over her head when their was a sharp knock on the door. Spencer sighed and began to untangle herself from Toby when he stopped her.

"Maybe they'll go away," he whispered, before pulling her so she was flat on top of him, encasing her lips in his own.

Another knock.

Spencer groaned, pulled her shirt back on and trudged to the door. Upon opening it, she saw a young woman dressed in the hotel's receptionist's uniform.

"This was left at the front desk for you," she chirped, handing Spencer an envelope.

"Um, thanks," Spencer stammered, upset that she had been interrupted for this.

She sat down on the bed beside Toby and opened the envelope. She pulled out four plane tickets as well as a piece of paper with a short note typed on it.

"Let's finish this where it all started. Don't show? Your friends go down without the fight. -A" Spencer read aloud. She inspected the plane tickets: two from New York to Philadelphia, and two from Philadelphia to Milwaukee.

"At least A took care of our air fare," Toby joked. But when he looked into Spencer's eyes, he realized that she truly was worried. He took her face in his hands, touching his lips to her own.

"Toby," she started, her voice quavering. "I think this really is it. I don't think Ali is going to leave until she gets what she wants." And with that, the strongest woman Toby knew broke down.

He wrapped his arms around her shaking torso, mumbling "it's okay," into her hair. But he wasn't even so sure if that himself. Something told him that the final fight against A would leave the group short one person.

And if Ali was lucky, more than one .