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was the baby stroller. His mind didn’t even bend around the implications of that.
    “The hell are you two going? Should I come?” Dutch called after them, receiving a firm “Fuck no!” from both Thatch and Tex.
    They were speeding down the stairs almost in unison, both holding onto their lightly packed bags filled with essentials.
    This can’t be a coincidence that we’re here, Thatch thought feverishly. What the hell’s going on?
    He was dialing Connor’s number on his cell by the time they got in the matte gray SUV, Tex taking the wheel. They had no way of knowing if they could even find Madeline in town, or if they could get close enough to it with the commotion, but Thatch knew for a fact that he couldn’t let her slip away again. The way Tex was gunning it, breaking every traffic law known to the fine state of Illinois, suggested that Thatch wasn’t the only one with those exact feelings.
    For now, Thatch only knew that they needed to find her and keep her safe. Anything else was bound to be figured out when he could get rid of that painful stab in his gut telling him that things were way more screwed up than they should have been.
    We’re coming for you, Madeline. Hold on, baby.
 

CHAPTER NINE
    Madeline
     
    “Adley, are you okay? I know that stuff was scary, but calm down, girl! We’ll be fine,” Fiona said, throwing glances at Madeline.
    “Just get us home as fast as you can, Fiona, please,” Madeline replied, twisting herself in her seat to check on her boys as well as peek out the back window.
    Any minute now, she was expecting to see some hulking black SUV, or a damn attack helicopter appear behind the horizon, zooming in with only one mission—to kill her and her kids. It sounded ridiculous when she tried to put it into words, it really did, and so she didn’t attempt it again. But something in her heart told her that she had to get out of Chicago as fast as possible.
    There were cameras there. What if I got caught on one of them? What if they already know where I am? I can’t let anything happen to Raze and Rhodes… I have to protect them.
    She was chewing on her lower lip, gnashing her teeth into the soft flesh so hard she was sure she’d draw blood soon. Her hands felt clammy and she had goose bumps covering her skin. In a lot of ways, she was more terrified now than she had ever been on the train. There, everything was happening in the moment, all the possible outcomes laid out for her neatly in one row. Life or death, no other choices. Now? Now she didn’t know what to expect.
    “Adley, honestly. You can’t let a few psychos ruin your day. I heard no one even got hurt! I know it was stressful getting out of town, but you’re fine! The kids are fine! Everything’s okay,” Fiona said, trying to calm her down.
    Madeline tossed a look at Fiona and nodded mutely, trying her damndest to force herself to be calm.
    You can’t panic. Whatever you do, don’t panic, she told herself, taking deep breaths and slumping against the soft passenger seat.
    “I’m sorry. I guess after becoming a mother, I take all of those threats so much more seriously,” she admitted.
    There was more than a little truth to it, but obviously it wasn’t simply that she feared unstable people for plain, rational reasons. Though she’d felt safe, even normal for a while now, there was still that nagging feeling at the back of her head that someone could be watching her, or at least waiting for her to show up somewhere.
    Honestly, she wanted to say that she couldn’t remember the faces of the men she had seen on the train, but she could. They were etched in her memories. As long as they weren’t brought in by the law, she knew she could never truly feel safe.
    The drive back to the suburbs wasn’t too long, though it felt like it took forever. The road seemed twice as long. When they pulled up in front of Madeline’s little house, she was out of the car before it even properly stopped. Working with frantic