Nora thought it was the cops.

It wasn’t. It was Samuel.

Did it matter? Not in the slightest. Someone had come to save her, and that was enough to chip away at the suffocating fear that had been clawing at her all night.

Because, newsflash: she wasn’t some fearless superhero. Sure, she’d kept up the snarky banter with the guy holding her hostage, acting like it was no big deal. But her heart had been lodged in her throat the entire time. One ...