Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 73537 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 368(@200wpm)___ 294(@250wpm)___ 245(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73537 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 368(@200wpm)___ 294(@250wpm)___ 245(@300wpm)
I narrowed my eyes at Tex. Who was he to decide where I should and should not be? He wasn’t my momma or Jesus. He had no right to place any judgment on me.
Nina took a slice of the fresh bread and slid it across the counter. “Why don’t you stick some food in that mouth of yours and let the woman talk for herself?” she suggested to Tex.
He shrugged and walked over to snatch up the bread.
Nina turned her attention back to me. “Come on and have a seat. I’ll get you some of my honey butter and a slice of bread. You can tell me all about it. Micah doesn’t make it his mission to save females. I’m intrigued.”
No kidding. He hadn’t saved me. He’d ruined my day.
I pulled out the stool across from her and sat down. “I wouldn’t call it saving. They all seem to have their opinion on that, and I have mine,” I told her and added a smile so it didn’t sound like I was a bitch.
She chuckled. “You don’t say,” she replied, then winked at me before slicing a piece of bread, then placing it on a plate to slide over to me. “I’ll go get that butter,” she added, then headed toward the massive refrigerator.
“Hey, Tex. Come out back and look at this machine that Brick brought in this morning,” a man called from the door on the other side of the large living area.
Tex turned his gaze back to mine. “You’re good here with Nina, yeah?”
“She’s fine,” Nina replied as if that was a ridiculous question.
Tex smirked, then turned and headed to the open door. “She’s here with Micah,” Tex announced as he walked through the room. “Remember that and stay clear.”
The other men looked my way, then nodded in understanding as they went back to whatever they had been doing.
“Micah brought a woman here?” one of the half-naked women asked.
“Leave it, Tracy,” a man warned her.
When the door closed behind Tex, I was relieved he was gone. I didn’t want to deal with any of these men. They all seemed to think what Micah had said was right. They were wrong! All of them.
“Fucking hell, Nina! Why do you torture me like this?” a female asked, then groaned loudly.
I shifted on my stool to see who it was and realized someone new had entered the room through the red door.
A stunning brunette with nothing but a pair of sparkly panties that might have been meant to be shorts and a matching blue bra walked in stilettos toward the counter. Her gaze swung to mine, and she paused, scanning over my body before coming back to my face. “Who are you here with?”
The blunt question took me by surprise, and I opened my mouth to respond, but nothing came out. I wasn’t sure how to explain my situation to the woman staring at me.
“She’s a guest. Dolly is Pepper’s best friend,” Nina informed her. “Dolly, this is Amethyst. Ignore her rudeness. She is starving herself today to keep her stomach flat, and that makes her ornery.”
“Pepper is here?” Amethyst asked, sounding as if she was happy at the thought of seeing my best friend.
“No, she isn’t here. Dolly came with Micah.”
Amethyst’s head snapped back around quickly to look at me. This time, her eyes widened, and she was assessing me closer than before. I felt nervous under her sudden, intense interest.
“Micah?” she asked, her voice an octave higher.
“Not like that. Christ, Pepper would kill him,” Nina replied with a shake of her head. “He brought her here, and I was trying to find out why when you walked in and started hammering her with your nosy questions.”
Amethyst didn’t even glance back at Nina. She kept her eyes leveled on me. “Are you in some kind of trouble?” she asked me.
I started to say no, but stopped. Because that wasn’t the truth. I was gonna be in a pile of hot shit with my momma when she found out about this.
“Not exactly,” I replied carefully. “But I will be if Micah doesn’t let me leave soon.”
My momma could be calling my phone right now, and I wouldn’t know it.
“Let the girl eat her bread while it’s hot,” Nina urged.
I glanced down at the buttered bread in front of me. If I ate that, it would go straight to my hips, but if I was going to die soon and possibly end up in hell, then it might be worth it.
“I’m just curious as to what Micah was thinking, bringing her here. He doesn’t typically do the hero thing. And if he was saving her, then why’d he drop her off with you and bolt, leaving her with this bunch of horny bastards?” She waved a hand around the room.”
Nina lifted a shoulder. “He knows I won’t let anyone touch her. Besides, Tex warned them.”