Total pages in book: 110
Estimated words: 111359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 111359 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 557(@200wpm)___ 445(@250wpm)___ 371(@300wpm)
But she managed the strength to stay on her feet. Turning, she sobbed hysterically as she ran her hands over him. “Are you hurt? Did he shoot you? Where is the blood?”
“Baby, baby, I’m fine.” He grasped hold of her hands. “I told you. He didn’t hit me.”
“I heard g-gunshots.” How had he missed shooting Raid?
“That would be me.”
She glanced over to see Saxon standing over the prone body of Ellis. “S-saxon? What? How?”
Saxon gave her an assessing look. “You’re all right, Hannah.”
She wasn’t sure that she was. Raid wrapped an arm around her and she leaned into him.
“It’s okay, baby. It’s over. He’s not going to hurt you.”
“I was worried about you!”
“Or me,” he soothed. “How did you know we needed help?” Raid directed this question to Saxon.
“My security guy caught sight of this asshole hanging around the parking lot. He called to tell me and that’s when you stepped outside and he pulled a gun on you both. I quickly grabbed my gun, then I came out and snuck around behind him, then signaled to Raid.”
“What? You knew he was there?” she asked Raid. She hadn’t seen him at all.
There was the sound of sirens in the distance. Saxon or his security guy must have called the cops.
“Yep.” Raid squeezed her with his arm. “Baby, stop shaking. You’re all right.”
All right? She wasn’t all right. She was upset and, she was kind of mad!
“Why didn’t you tell me? I was freaking out thinking he’d shot you!” She turned to him and pummelled her fists against his chest.
“Baby, calm down.”
“Don’t tell me to calm down! He could have killed you. Oh my God. I can’t believe this! Steven, whose real name is Jared, had a twin brother who has been watching and waiting for his moment to kill me! And Simone, that bitch, told him where I was staying!”
She almost missed the way the air around her grew heavier. Glancing up, she saw the fury on Raid’s face. Then she looked at Saxon as Jake pulled up with one of his deputies.
Saxon looked like pure ice. Holy. Heck.
“Yes, she did,” Raid said. “It’s time Simone learned what happens when you betray someone in Haven.”
Shit. It was going to suck to be Simone. But she didn’t have it in her to care.
All the fight left her as she leaned into Raid’s chest, sobbing. He wrapped his arms around her.
“You know I don’t like you crying.”
“I’m going to cry and don’t try to stop me,” she told him.
He sighed long and loud. “I’ll allow it this once.”
Damn right, he would.
Raid carried her into the bunkhouse. She was so exhausted she didn’t even think about protesting.
This had been one hell of a night. From going to the club, to getting a good girl spanking and having one heck of an orgasm, to being confronted by an armed man and thinking he’d shot Raid, then spending hours explaining everything to the cops.
Eli and Kellan had flown in the moment that Jake had called them. And once they’d arrived, she and Raid had gone through it all again.
Now it was hours past dawn and neither of them had slept.
“Come on, precious girl. Let’s get you into bed.”
“I’m so tired,” she moaned. “But I don’t know if I can sleep. My brain keeps going over everything. What will Jake do about Simone?” What she did was kind of a breach of privacy, but not really, since pretty much everyone in town knew she was staying the ranch.
The only thing was, no one else would have told Ellis anything.
“Jake is going to talk to Doc about getting rid of her.”
“It might not be that easy.” She couldn’t imagine going back to work with Simone there.
“Jake’s also going to spread the word about what she did. The whole town will get behind, making her time here in Haven very difficult. And I have a few ideas on how to make the rest of her life far less fun, too.”
“Raid,” she said warningly as he set her down on her feet by the side of the bed.
He placed his hands on her cheeks. “You’re not going to talk me out of this, Hannah. She messed with you. She had no idea who that asshole was, but she told him where you were staying.”
“Maybe it was innocent . . . he could have told her anything.”
“So she should have called you to tell you that he was asking about you. She had access to your number. Or she could have told Doc or Jenna. Did she ever call and tell you that someone was asking about you?”
She swallowed heavily. “No.”
“No, because she likely sensed something bad was going to happen. Or she just didn’t care. Either way, that is not someone we want working in Haven. Or someone I want around you. Understand me?”