After dragging Sofia into the alley, he quickly took her gun and radio so she couldn't do anything, then shoved her inside a vacant house. The place was crawling with rats and reeked of rot with a smell worse than a clogged toilet filling the place.
"Ryder… what are you trying to do here?" Ava asked, voice trembling filled with confusion. She sounded worried he might be thinking of killing her right there and then, but the look on his face didn't match that. It was a we need to talk expression, not a I'm about to kill you one.
"Chill, babe," Ryder said, lowering his gun. He lit a cigarette and gave a thin exhale as he continued. "I'm not trying to harm you. At least… not for now," he ended his words with a smile.
Hearing that only confused Ava even more, she couldn't figure out what he wanted from her, as he was supposed to be running away, not take her to some empty house for a quick chat.
