Knot me on ice, Captain(BL) Chapter 267: When the Sirens Reached Us

Miller

My eyes instinctively shifted toward Leo again before I could stop myself, and judging from the way Leo suddenly looked away afterward, he noticed it too.

The ergency line finally connected against my ear.

"Hello, what is your ergency?" the dispatcher asked calmly.

Before I could answer, Jace suddenly grabbed my wrist again with surprising strength despite how weak he looked.

"No," he said quickly, panic flooding his face again. "Do not call them."

I frowned imdiately.

"Jace—"

"You do not understand," he whispered desperately while tightening his grip around my wrist. "If the police get involved, they will go after him and you know Enigmas are not supposed to exist."

Leo’s expression darkened instantly behind his glasses before he slowly turned toward .

"He is right," he said quietly. "If law enforcent realizes an Enigma is involved, it imdiately becos a governntal matter instead of a dostic violence case. Enigmas are not supposed to exist."

That alone made my stomach tighten.

I slowly lowered the phone away from my ear, trying to think properly through the chaos building around us, but before I could even speak again, another violent bang suddenly echoed from sowhere downstairs.

This ti, nobody was screaming.

It was worse.

The sound tore violently through the building like tal slamming against tal, followed by another loud crash that sounded disturbingly close to the lobby entrance.

Like soone was forcing sothing open.

Jace flinched so hard on the couch that Leo had to press him back down again before he reopened the wound completely.

"Will he be able to get in?" Jace asked shakily, his voice barely above a whisper now.

I imdiately shook my head.

"He cannot get upstairs without access clearance," I answered quickly. "This elevator requires a private keycard which is why I need to know where the hell my security guards disappeared to."

Jace groaned softly before squeezing his eyes shut.

"I... I may have distracted them earlier," he admitted weakly.

Leo slowly looked up from the wound before removing one bloody glove and face-palming himself directly across the forehead.

"This entire disaster is because of you," he muttered sharply while trying very hard not to completely lose his temper. "What exactly was your long-term survival strategy here? Bleed dramatically in front of Miller’s penthouse until sobody adopted you?"

"I said I was sorry," Jace whispered.

Before Leo could answer again, raised voices suddenly echoed loudly from downstairs.

An argunt.

Then another crash followed imdiately afterward.

I moved instinctively toward the massive floor-to-ceiling windows before looking down toward the building entrance below.

And finally—

My security guards.

Three of them had rushed back toward the lobby entrance while several police vehicles suddenly pulled up aggressively outside the tower one after another.

Red and blue sirens imdiately flooded the streets below, the violent flashing lights reflecting sharply against the glass buildings surrounding the penthouse district. Even from this high up, I could hear the chaotic noise growing louder as officers poured out onto the pavent below.

"Oh," I muttered quietly while staring downward. "It looks like the security guards already called the police."

Jace imdiately went pale again.

"Your Enigma boyfriend does not really have anywhere left to run now," I added quietly while turning back toward him.

For a second, nobody inside the apartnt spoke.

Then suddenly, the private elevator alarm beeped, and all three of us imdiately looked toward the elevator doors at the sa ti.

Leo stood up first.

The elevator doors slowly slid open seconds later, revealing four ard officers standing inside alongside one of my security guards whose face looked bruised and exhausted.

"Mr Reid?" one of the officers asked quickly while stepping out first. "Are all of you alright?"

"Yes," I answered imdiately before pointing toward the couch. "But he is injured."

The mont the officers saw Jace lying there covered in blood, their entire posture changed instantly.

"Jesus Christ," another officer muttered.

Leo imdiately stepped aside enough for them to approach while removing his gloves.

"Deep lateral abdominal laceration," he explained professionally before anyone could ask questions. "Significant blood loss, possible muscle involvent, unstable vitals, and probable infection risk from delayed treatnt."

One officer imdiately spoke into his radio.

"We need dical upstairs now."

Everything after that happened unbelievably fast.

Within minutes, paradics rushed through the elevator carrying ergency equipnt while more officers flooded the building downstairs. The entire lobby had already beco chaos beneath the screaming sirens outside.

And sohow, things only got worse.

Because the second police activity increased outside the building, reporters started arriving too.

News vans.

Cara crews.

Photographers.

I stared through the window in disbelief as flashing caras suddenly exploded across the street below.

"The headlines tomorrow are going to be insane," Leo muttered dryly beside while watching the scene below. "Of course the dia arrived this quickly."

Then suddenly shouting erupted outside the building entrance again.

Several officers dragged a man violently across the pavent while he fought aggressively against them.

Even from this far above, I could still hear him screaming Jace’s na.

"I am sorry, Jace! I just could not control myself! Please!"

Jace saw it too, and imdiately panic flooded his face again.

"No," he whispered weakly. "No... no..."

The paradics tried calming him down while securing oxygen around his face, but suddenly his body jerked violently against the couch.

Then another spasm followed imdiately afterward.

"Leo—" I started in panic.

"Move back," Leo ordered sharply before grabbing Jace’s shoulders.

Jace’s entire body suddenly convulsed violently beneath his hands.

One of the paradics cursed loudly.

"Possible hypovolemic seizure activity," Leo snapped imdiately while checking his pupils. "His blood pressure is crashing faster now."

The apartnt exploded into movent afterward.

Paradics rushed to stabilize him while attaching monitors across his chest.

Another officer started forcing the reporters farther away from the building entrance downstairs.

anwhile, Jace’s boyfriend was finally shoved into the back of a police car while still screaming violently through the crowd outside.

The sirens beca deafening while the flashing lights reflected across my penthouse walls like sothing out of a nightmare.

And while standing there watching everyone move around frantically, all I could think about was the Enigma downstairs.

The fear in Jace’s eyes.

The way he reacted to him.

And then my thoughts slowly shifted toward Leo.

Would he lose control one day too?

Would he eventually beco just like him?