#Chapter 149: Near Miss

Amber’s POV I insisted on going with Rafael to pick Alice up from the tutor’s, even knowing my presence could cause trouble. Alice was my daughter, and she might be scared. I had to be there to protect her. Rafael wasn’t going to let me go alone. So he and I and a pair of his enforcers loaded into one of his sedans and we took the car across town to the tutor’s. The tutor taught their lessons out of the first floor of their home. It was an older style home with large rooms and lattice work along the wrap-around porch. Typically it was a beautiful home in a quiet neighborhood. Today, we could barely get down the road for all the cars and news vans pulled alongside it. A massive crowd had formed out front of the building, and though some of the enforcers had arrived before us to try to set up a perimeter to push people back, the crowd was still pushing against them, trying to get closer. “This is going to be a dangerous rescue,” Rafael said. He looked at me. “Amber, you have