Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81694 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 408(@200wpm)___ 327(@250wpm)___ 272(@300wpm)
He dropped his phone and looked at me. “Don’t kill because your woman cries next time. Unless her life is in danger.”
I clenched my teeth, and my hands balled into fists. I managed a nod.
Blaise stood up and got in my face. “You fucking lose your shit, and this is what happens!” he roared. “Your woman is in danger, and we’ve got to find her because you can’t control your goddamn temper when it comes to her. Don’t make me regret my decisions, Gage. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?”
I took a deep breath. He was right. I fucking hated that he was right.
“Yes, boss,” I replied.
He nodded and sat back down. “We’ll find her. When we do, then you get to fucking kill someone. Happy?”
No. I wouldn’t be happy until I had Shiloh in my arms, safe. Even then, I wasn’t sure there would be enough people to kill to calm the fury inside me.
“I’m putting fucking trackers under their goddamn skin. All three of them,” Blaise muttered as he glared out the window.
The plane was in the air, headed home, when Blaise’s phone rang.
“Yes.”
There was a pause.
“Motherfucker.”
Another pause.
“Let Levi know. We are about an hour out.”
He ended the call and dropped the phone, then looked at me.
“Where the fuck did you three find Destiny?” he asked, then glanced to Huck.
Once, we’d all fucked her. She’d been coming around for a while.
Huck pointed at me. “It’s fucking pretty boy over there. She is a dancer at a club in Orlando. She latched on to him, and we ended up tag-teaming her in a private room. Then, she was coming back to the house with either him or Levi. They shared her, fucked her, but it’s his fucking face she loved.”
I scowled at Huck. I didn’t need fucking reminding that I’d been an idiot. She was a hot piece of ass who spread her legs and got on her knees for me whenever I needed it.
“Her brother is a Viper. Goes by the name Acid,” Blaise informed me. “You’ve been bringing a bitch into the house who is connected to a fucking gang. Who did her background check?”
“Not sure we did,” Huck admitted.
Blaise looked livid. “Let’s fucking hope Acid doesn’t like to hurt pretty faces.”
My blood felt like it was boiling under my skin. My fists clenched and unclenched as I sat there, planning the payback. Fucking Destiny was gonna wish she’d never opened her mouth.
Blaise stood up. “Need to go tell the pilot we need to go to fucking Orlando now.”
I didn’t speak. I let all the fucking rage inside of me simmer and build. When it released, they’d all fucking die.
Thirty-Nine
Shiloh
As time wore on, my headache started to slowly ease. The two guys had left me in the room alone what felt like hours ago. I was thankful for the silence. To keep from falling apart, I had thought about the past few mornings and nights with Gage. The things he’d said to me. The way he’d looked at me. My throat felt tight at the thought of never seeing him again.
What if this morning had been the last time we would be together in this life?
Footsteps. More than one set. I braced myself for what was to come. I recognized the fat man’s voice as he explained they’d tried to feed me and I’d refused food. There was no response from whoever he was talking to.
When they were almost to the room, there was a pause.
“I’ll take it from here,” a deep voice with an accent I couldn’t quite place said.
I closed my eyes tightly. I could do this. I could face whatever happened. Opening my eyes, I waited, and one set of footsteps entered the room. I turned my head to the right to look at him. I wasn’t going to show weakness. Gage wouldn’t want me to. He’d want me to be brave.
The man was average height with long, dark dreadlocks pulled back in a ponytail. His eyes were a light brown while he had a mocha complexion. A gold lip ring and another piercing in his eyebrow. He wasn’t as dirty-looking as the men from earlier. However, the snake tattoo was on not one, but both of his arms and around his neck with the snake’s head coming up over his jawline and the pointed tongue reaching halfway up his cheek.
“Unexpected,” he said as he walked closer to me. “Shiloh Ellis?” he asked.
I nodded my head.
He bit his lip, and then his tongue darted out to flick the gold ring. “Do you know who I am?” he asked with a smirk.
I shook my head.
“You’re not a stripper, are you?”
I shook my head again.
“You’re wearing scrubs. A nurse?”
“Yes,” I replied.
“That explains the location I was told to have you picked up at.” He squinted his eyes and pursed his lips. “I believe I’ve not been given the entire story.” He looked at me and grinned, as if I understood what he was talking about. “You see, I was led to believe you were … different. I’m trying to decide if I care.”