Ring! Ring! Rin—

“Yes?” Julian snapped without looking at his phone. It was nearly ten in the morning and he had already found Sia working in her home office, so he’d left her to work in peace while he went through his daily routine.

“Whoa! What crawled up your ass and died?”

“Abhay,” Julian greeted his best friend with a laugh. “When did you get back?”

“Been ages man!” Abhay joked. “I came back this morning and saw you were gone. Christian seemed worried though. Heard you got shot yesterday.”

“Yeah.” Julian sighed. He’d managed to send in his report last night via email, directly to his brother, before he’d...