Total pages in book: 78
Estimated words: 77422 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77422 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 387(@200wpm)___ 310(@250wpm)___ 258(@300wpm)
“I dropped her the moment I met my wife. Again. My wife was very needy. Hated to be left alone. Was jealous of the time I spent with my sister. So I slowly stopped doing that, and I regret it deeply,” he said. “Then I almost died. My wife and baby did die. So if she has ‘issues’, as you say, then that’s my fault.”
I crossed my arms over my chest, studying the man.
His devastation was clearly written all over his face.
“You’re making up for any damage you’ve done to her,” I said to him. “You and that boy of yours were always her favorite topics of conversation. You both mean the world to her.”
It was like the kind words I’d shared with him were shots to his heart. His hand lifted and massaged his chest, his eyes going far away as he thought about something that he obviously didn’t want to share with me.
“She misses you,” he finally admitted, leaning back in his own chair just as I was doing.
It was my turn to lift my hand and rub my chest as those words tore through my heart.
“I know,” I said to him. “I miss her too.”
“She’s going to resist,” he said. “She’s going to fight you tooth and nail, but you’ll just have to force yourself in there. That’s what I had to do. Be persistent. Don’t let her tell you no.”
“Hey,” Griffin said, interrupting my deteriorating thoughts. “Since we’re on the subject of your sister, did you convince her to go to the reunion?”
My eyes narrowed as my hearing sharpened.
Leaning forward in my chair, I turned my body sideways so I could see Griffin and Wolf at the same time without having to turn my head.
“What are you talking about?” I asked. “Why would you care if she went or not?”
Wolf flipped Griffin off.
“It’s nothing,” he lied.
“Sorry,” Griffin muttered as he picked up his silver Yeti off the corner of his desk, waved goodbye and disappeared out of the office without another word to either one of us.
Wolf growled in annoyance at the abrupt departure of his friend, then turned back to me as he stared at me with resignation.
“I want my sister to talk to someone for me,” he said. “A man she used to have the hots for.”
My spine stiffened.
“What?” I asked, annoyed that Wolf would ask his sister to move on when he and I both knew she wasn’t ready.
“It’s not what you think…”
By the time he was done explaining what exactly it was, I was no longer angry. I was fucking livid.
“Let me get this straight,” I said stiffly. “You’re sending your sister to her ten-year reunion to try to get some guy to talk to her. To tell her things that he hasn’t told anybody…without any protection.”
“You know I would never put her in danger,” Wolf snapped. “Of course I would have men on her to make sure nothing bad happened to her. I about shit myself when I realized who this joker was. I’ve been looking for a way into this operation for a freakin’ year. This is the perfect opportunity.”
“The perfect opportunity to get your sister hurt,” I snapped. “What makes you think that she can pull anything out of him anyway?”
“The fact that she’s able to draw the attention of any goddamn man that comes into contact with her,” Wolf said looking at me as if I was stupid.
I gritted my teeth.
“I know she’s beautiful,” I told him. “What I want to know is why you think she’ll be able to pull anything from him when he never gave her the time of day in high school?”
Wolf sighed.
“I’m not sure what’s going to happen there,” he said. “I’m only hoping, which is what I’ve told you about fifteen times now.”
I threw up my hands.
“This fucking guy is a crime lord’s son! You really want to send your sister in there to that?” I spat.
He studied me, his black eyes sharp and unforgiving.
“The ‘crime lord’ we’re speaking of is stealing females and selling them to the highest bidder,” he said stiffly, standing up so he could lean over the desk and put emphasis on just how important this was to him. “I don’t have a lot of fucking options here. This needs to stop before they take any more women and children.”
“So you’re willing to give your sister to them instead?” I snapped, standing now, too.
“Not a goddamn thing will touch her,” he assured me. “Either me or one of The Uncertain Saints will be there. She’ll never be alone.”
“Damn right she won’t,” I cracked. “I’ll be there with her. Nothing will touch her.”
“If you’re up her ass, then he might not talk like I need him to,” Wolf growled.
“Then that’s just a chance that you’re going to have to fucking take,” I narrowed my eyes. “Because I’m not going to let anything happen to her. Someone’s going to have to think of her first instead of themselves.”