Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
“He was trying to protect me.” If there was one thing she wanted this man to believe, it was that he’d been smart to take her. If he didn’t think she could help, he would get rid of her. He needed to believe she was the only person in the world who could get Wyatt to talk.
And then she would take as much pain as she had to until Sawyer found a way to save them.
Wayne turned his chair around and straddled it, staring at her like he was trying to figure her out.
She was too calm. She needed to let some of her fear show. She sniffled. “Can I see him?”
“What the hell do you see in Wyatt? Is it the schoolteacher thing? Men aren’t attracted to you and so the one who shows interest gets all your attention?”
Sure. Because men didn’t have schoolteacher fantasies. Yeah. She reached out for a napkin, dabbing at her eyes. “I love Wyatt. I fell in love with him, and Sawyer was part of the deal.”
The last thing she wanted was the dude to decide getting Sawyer was a good idea.
“You prefer my brother over Sawyer?” Wayne asked.
She loved them both equally. It was odd because she could no longer see one of them without the other. “Sawyer is handsome, but he’s not my type. Wyatt is sweet and cares about the people around him. Sawyer can be a selfish prick, but he’s good in bed. Wyatt and I are going to leave him. Wyatt thought he owed Sawyer, but I think we’ve more than repaid him. We were going to tell him once we found a place to live.”
Best to let him think Sawyer didn’t matter at all.
“You listening, big guy?” Wayne looked over his shoulder toward the side entrance. “You tore down that mountain like she means something to you and guess what? She was playing you to get to little brother.”
Sawyer was here. Two big men were on either side of him, his hands together in front of him bound by a zip tie they’d definitely gotten too tight. Her heart sank. What had happened? He’d heard her say shitty things, and it would ruin them. And she couldn’t take them back without making them even more vulnerable.
“Yeah, I heard.” There was a dull note to Sawyer’s tone that made her ache. “I should have known. I guess I didn’t think Wyatt would do that to me.”
Wayne pushed his chair back and stood. “You don’t know my brother the way you think you do. My brother is a traitor. He’s a liar. He cheats. He’s not the kind of man you risk everything for.”
But he was, and so was Sawyer.
“I don’t suppose you can let me go and we’ll call it all even?” Sawyer asked. “I have zero problems marching right back up to my cabin and putting them both out of my mind.”
“Sure. And you wouldn’t call anyone,” Wayne mused. “You should know I took out the phone lines and have a cell phone jammer working now. Your safe room isn’t going to help.”
“Well, I don’t see the rest of my employees here, so it must have done something,” Sawyer said with a smirk.
“Yeah, they’re locked in,” Wayne admitted, “but they can’t get a message out. I made sure of it. As for letting you go and brood over the fact that no one’s ever going to want you as part of their family, I’m going to have to pass. I will admit, I thought bringing you in might help. I wasn’t sure the lady here is going to be able to take as much pain as I’m going to need to inflict in order to get my brother to talk. I thought you might be an extra go to when it comes to torture, but it seems he wants you out of the way.”
“I love you, Sawyer. You don’t have to be with her,” Lark said.
Sawyer’s eyes widened in obvious surprise. “Really?”
“I’ll take care of Sawyer.” Lark nodded Wayne’s way. “I mean it feels like you owe me for not giving you trouble.”
Wayne stalked over to her. “Not making you part of the torture is payment for what I owe you. See, my brother has many flaws, and one of them is caring too much. I was thinking about starting with you and seeing if I even have to bring out the big guns.”
Lark had overplayed her hand.
“Hey, you don’t have to do any of this,” Sawyer said, pulling slightly away.
That was when he suddenly had a gun leveled at his face, and it took everything Sabrina had not to throw herself in front of him. Wayne moved in, stepping beside his guard. The whole place had hushed though the jukebox was still going. It felt like everything slowed down, and she reached for the knife.