Total pages in book: 32
Estimated words: 30161 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 151(@200wpm)___ 121(@250wpm)___ 101(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 30161 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 151(@200wpm)___ 121(@250wpm)___ 101(@300wpm)
15
Ben
“Bunny, please tell me you know who I am,” I ask when her eyes finally open. I cup her soft cheek in my hand. I carried her back to the office after she went and fainted on me. I’d barely caught her before she hit the damn ground.
“You’re my Benny.” She smiles for a moment, then it drops away as she tries to sit up and see where she is and what the hell happened. I can see it all coming back to her in a rush this time. Her face pales at the memory.
“Pink?” she whimpers, tears filling her eyes.
Fuck me. My girl is too sweet and tender to go through this shit. I never should have let her out of my sight for even a second. I’d meant to give her a few minutes’ head start. She and Pink had been hopping up to the bakery a lot lately, but I’d gotten distracted on the phone with Knox for a few extra minutes.
“I’m here!” Pink pops up so Bunny can see that she’s okay. “Even got the goods.” She holds up the teal bakery box. Bunny’s mouth opens and closes. She wants to cry, but Pink cracking a joke when she shouldn’t be actually gets her tears to stop.
“Everyone is fine,” I reassure her. Not everyone, but anyone that matters.
“Hart.” I glance over my shoulder to see two uniformed police officers and Detective Juno come to the doorway of my office. I’d brought Bunny straight in here, thinking a more enclosed familiar space would help her when she woke up. She’s taken many naps on the sofa here while I’ve been at my desk.
“My gun is on my brother's desk. I need a minute.” I dismiss them, needing to make sure my girl is okay. The rest of the shit can wait until later.
“I’ll show you,” Kane says, motioning for everyone to get the hell out of my office. “We've got surveillance footage too. We keep camera footage on the front and back of this whole area.” He shuts the door to my office to give us a moment.
“I heard gunfire. Didn’t I?” She sits up a bit more. I tighten my hold on her, making it clear she’s not going anywhere that’s not my lap.
“Yeah, you heard gunfire. It was mine.” Her eyes widen. “That fucker is dead. No one else was hurt.” She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath.
“I thought I recognized him when I was in the bakery, but I couldn’t place him. I’d forgotten my wallet so I’d come back to get it. I was on my way back to meet Pink when he called my name.” Tears form in her eyes again. I wish I could bring that asshole back to life just so I could kill him all over again. “It’s then I finally put together who he was. I thought running into him was a coincidence at first, but then he started getting mad. Saying crazy things.”
“He’s the one who had you taken,” I tell her. “It’s over now.”
“I just don’t understand.” She chews on her bottom lip. I lean down and brush my mouth against hers to get her to stop before she hurts herself. I need to kiss her too. She melts into me. Some of the tension leaves her body.
“You don’t understand how someone might have become obsessed with you?” I run my finger down her jaw.
That’s what he was. I’ve had Knox digging into everyone around her, one by one checking people off the list. I knew it was someone who knew her. The law firm slowed us down. They had tighter security for all their computer systems. Too bad for them, I didn’t care if this had been handled illegally. There is nothing I wouldn’t do to protect her.
I wasn't trying to find this person and toss them into jail. My world isn’t black and white like Kane’s. Not everything works that way. Hell, it’s why the government hired Knox and me half the time. They wanted information or something handled, and they didn’t want to know how it was done.
One by one, we’d plucked people off the list. Until we’d gotten to David. He was one of the partners' sons. From the outside, he was picture perfect. But no one is that perfect. The man had been stalking her from the very start. My Bunny didn’t give him the time of day. That really pissed him off.
He’d slept with a handful of the other women who worked in her same position. He just couldn’t have her. Which made her more appealing to him. Bunny might be shy and quiet, but she reads people. I don’t think she even knows she does it, but she has a very good sense of who to stay away from and who is safe. I bet growing up in the foster system taught her that from a very young age.