Total pages in book: 38
Estimated words: 34926 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 175(@200wpm)___ 140(@250wpm)___ 116(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34926 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 175(@200wpm)___ 140(@250wpm)___ 116(@300wpm)
“Chase.” He looked down at me, anguish in his eyes. “I’m fine. Go with your brothers. Do what you need to do.”
“I’m not leaving you, baby. You need me.”
“You told me what you did before you came to Bones.” That surprised him. I could see he had no idea where I was going with this. “You’re a hunter, Chase. Your brothers will pull you back before you do something you can’t live with. I need you to go find this guy more than I need you with me right now.” I didn’t. But I knew he needed to be engaged. I also knew that he was the best person to be looking for this guy because he would do anything to keep me safe. He was the one person in my life I knew without a doubt loved me. Looking back, I think he loved me from the first time we actually met. He’d done nothing but protect me and try to help me. Now, I needed to let him help me again even though all I wanted was for him to hold me close. I’d get that later.
“Baby --”
“I need you to do what you were trained to do, Chase. Go find that son of a bitch and make him hurt as much as Cain will let you.”
With a curt nod and a hard kiss, Chase hurried to his bike, started it up and followed his brothers in pursuit of my attacker. I hopped he never realized how much it terrified me to watch him go. I wasn’t scared for myself. I was fine, surrounded by the women of the club along with the few men who stayed behind, most likely to protect all their women. I was scared for what it would do to Chase’s soul. He told me he’d killed, had, in fact, been an assassin. In my book, hunting down someone who’d tried to kill someone you loved with a car, then drove off wasn’t a bad thing. It was justice. If he did kill the bastard, I’d convince him to see things my way.
Chapter Eight
Chase
This ended. Now. I had no idea what was going on, but I had an enemy to fight, and that’s what I was going to do.
The brakes. The fall. Now a near hit-and-run. One thing was an accident. Two a coincidence. This last was deliberate, and that had me rethinking the other two incidents.
No way Tool overlooked checking the brake fluid. Cotton kept insisting she knew she was hit before she fell. Could both of those incidents have been an attempt on her life? I didn’t know. But the guy in the fuckin’ Audi did.
It didn’t take me long to catch up to my brothers. I tried to pass them but Bohannon, the bastard, blocked me. Didn’t matter much because a short way down the road we found the Audi in the ditch and the Scout on its side with the rider zip-tying the hands of the Audi’s driver behind his back.
“I’ll have all of you little fucks thrown in prison and your paperwork lost! You’ll be so far into the system it’ll take your lawyer years to even find you!”
“One more word and you leave here unconscious,” the Scout rider promised. The man looked vaguely familiar when he looked over his shoulder at Bohannon. “Gonna need a cage to get him back to the compound.” He scanned our group until his gaze landed on me. “Your woman good?”
I nodded. “Who’er you?”
The guy shrugged. “Scout. I’m with Cain.” That got some chuckles but no other commentary.
“Cage is on the way,” Bohannon said. “You know this guy?” He looked at me.
“No. Coward tried to hit Cotton with his fuckin’ car. I have a feeling he’s been the one behind her recent accidents.”
“If that’s true,” Bohannon mused, “it means he had help getting inside the compound.”
“Actually, I’m not so sure about that.” Daniel had an alarmed look on his face.
“Explain,” Bohannon snapped.
The younger man shook his head once, looking like he knew he’d fucked up and couldn’t believe he’d been so stupid, but he did as ordered.
“I found a break in the fence a few days ago and fixed it. I didn’t find out until tonight about Cotton’s accident. I thought it was just some of the local kids wanting to ride their bikes along the wooded trails. It’s happened before, but not since we fenced the place in. I was going to mention it at the next meeting so everyone could be aware and keep an eye out to warn them off.” He looked at me, guilt weighing heavily on him. “I’m sorry, Chase. If I’d known about Cotton, I’d’ve gone to Cain immediately.”
I sighed. “Not your fault.”
“You did what you were supposed to do, given the information you had.” Bohannon clapped the young man on the shoulder.