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didn’t, and now I can’t reach him.” Todd looked at the theater and then back at her. “What’s going on, Lily? Where’s Evan?” He grabbed hold of the tops of her arms. “Tell me where he is, damn it—”
    “Back off, buddy.” Jonas made a downward movement with his arm, effectively breaking Todd’s hold on Lily, before stepping between the two of them. He towered over the younger man by a good seven or eight inches.
    Considering Evan found Gabriel attractive, Jonas couldn’t imagine anyone less like the eldest Knight brother than the man standing in front of him. Todd was slightly built, wearing a maroon sweater and faded denims, a couple of inches under six feet tall, with a boyishly handsome face, and blond hair that had a tendency to flop forward into his eyes.
    “Something’s happened to Evan, hasn’t it?” The younger man’s eyes blazed with emotion as he glared past Jonas at Lily. “This is all your fault,” he accused. “I warned Evan to stay away from you after he told me about the letters and roses you’d received. But he wouldn’t listen to me, said the two of you are friends—”
    “We are—”
    “He doesn’t need friends like you,” Todd snarled, moving forward.
    “I said back the fuck off,” Jonas growled.
    “Need any assistance here, sir?”
    Jonas turned to see that one of the policemen standing guard had approached them and was now standing a couple of feet away. They also had the attention of the crowd gathered outside the theater. Not surprising when Todd was making such a scene.
    “It’s okay, Officer,” Jonas assured him smoothly. “Perhaps you would like to inform Inspector Adams that Mr.—sorry, I don’t know your last name…?” He looked at Todd.
    “Shaw,” he snapped.
    “Mr. Shaw is a friend of Mr. Butler,” he explained pointedly.
    “Ah.” The policeman nodded. “If you would like to come this way, sir?” he spoke evenly to Todd. “My inspector can answer any questions you might have, and we can let these good people be on their way.”
    Lily flinched as Todd gave her a last malevolent glare before striding off with the policeman. “Oh God…” She began to tremble. “Would you please get me out of here, Jonas?”
    Jonas didn’t need asking twice, his arm moving about Lily’s waist, her face turned into his chest as she avoided meeting any of the curious glances of the avid crowd, as the two of them walked the short distance to his SUV.
    “Can we go to the hospital now to see Evan? Please.” She looked at Jonas imploringly once they were inside the vehicle.
    “The police said he’s under guard, and only close family is being allowed in. I’ll be surprised if they even let Shaw into his room.” He grimaced.
    “But—”
    “Lily, you won’t be allowed to see him, and you aren’t going to do anyone any good sitting outside in the waiting room.” And if Todd Shaw did turn up there too, which he was definitely going to do, Jonas didn’t want Lily upset—more upset, by being on the receiving end of any more of his accusations. She was beating herself up enough already without help from anyone else. “I know one of the police officers on the case. He’s promised to give me a call if—when, Evan wakes up.”
    Lily was very quiet during the drive back to her apartment. Not that Jonas could blame her. The interview with the police had been grueling, to say the least, and Lily really hadn’t needed that encounter outside the theater with Evan Butler’s boyfriend afterwards.
    “I’ll clear away in the kitchen from earlier, while you pack a suitcase,” Jonas told her once they were in her apartment. They hadn’t tidied but left immediately for the theater after receiving the call from Lily’s director.
    She looked at him uncertainly. “I’d really rather stay here than go to a hotel.”
    Jonas couldn’t allow that. The security in the building wasn’t bad, courtesy of Gabriel would be his guess, and there were also surveillance