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I nodded. “The one and only,” I confirmed. “Anyway, Lennon had stumbled upon them, and not liking the odds, she had basically gone to Camden’s rescue, something that he hadn’t appreciated.”
“Not many men would,” Killian replied dryly.
“Still, in true Lennon Marlow fashion, it hadn’t been enough to just stop them from jumping Camden. Lennon had exposed some secrets, embarrassed all three guys, then had dared them to do something about it.” I shook my head with that girl’s fearlessness. “Kenneth, feeling safe from all repercussions of his actions because his father was a federal judge, had decided to teach Lennon a lesson. However, unable to get to her, he’d done the next best thing; he came after me.” I let out a deep breath. “Only, he hadn’t wanted to get his hands dirty, so he had hired three guys to attack me, his payback to Lennon for unmanning him in front of his friends and Camden.”
“I’d heard about a federal judge’s son going missing as a rape suspect,” he remarked. “It was also mentioned in the second background check. When your attack came up, so did his name.”
“How?” I asked, concerned that we hadn’t covered our tracks as well as we thought.
“Saveria Benetti had mentioned your attackers going to prison, but she had also mentioned how it’d been speculated that Kenneth Thomas had disappeared because of rumors about him being involved with a rape or something like that. She doesn’t know if he was involved for a fact or not.”
I nodded. “They raped and beat me for hours. It’d been…unreal, I guess is the best word that I can come up with. To this day, I’m surprised that my mind isn’t broken irrevocably from that night.”
“Baby-”
I threw my hand up to stop him. His voice carried enough emotion to drown in, and I couldn’t let that stop me from telling him everything. “While I was in the hospital, Lennon found out who the three guys were. Turns out, they’d been Camden’s best friends while in college.” Killian’s head reared back in shock. “Camden hadn’t known, and that’s another…” I waved my hand about. “That was a whole separate mess. Anyway, Kenneth had been pissed off enough that orchestrating my rape hadn’t been enough for him. He had upped the payout for them to also attack Lennon, and…Lennon had been fucking thrilled.”
“Thrilled?” he asked incredulously.
“Yep,” I said, nodding. “She’d already been desperate to get her hands on my attackers, but things had taken a dangerous turn when Camden ended up finding out that Kenneth had been behind my attack and Lennon’s future attack.”
“What she’d do?” he asked, completely enthralled in my story.
“Together with her family, she had allowed the police to arrest my attackers,” I answered. “Haden Donaldson, Martin Tyler, and Kelsey Sanders had all been arrested, too stupid to make sure not to leave any DNA. At any rate, I had fought hard enough that I’d had their skin and whatever underneath my fingernails, so that had helped.”
“I read that they all died in prison,” he said carefully, like he was afraid to keep reminding me of his invasion of my privacy.
I nodded. “Lennon had wanted them to suffer,” I explained. “That’s the only reason that they had lasted as long as they had in prison. She knew that they wouldn’t last in general population,” I shrugged.
“And Kenneth Thomas?”
Just then, my phone rang, and when I grabbed it out of my purse, I couldn’t help but smile when I saw the name flashing across the screen. I quickly answered it because that’s what you did whenever Aunt Emerson called you.
“Hey,” I greeted.
Not one to pussyfoot around, she asked, “Are you good? Where are you?”
“I’m with Killian at his hotel room,” I answered. “And I’m good. We’re…we’re talking things out.”
“Text me which hotel and what room, Posie,” she demanded. “And if you need us-”
“I know, Aunt Emerson,” I chuckled softly. “I know.”
“Just as long as he knows it, too,” she stressed, and it was hard not to love this family.
“Oh, trust me, he does.”
“Okay, I’ll let you get to it. Love you.”
“Love you, too.” It hadn’t always been easy for me to say that, but it was easy now.
Hanging up, I looked back over at Killian, and he just shook his head. “Another warning?”
Instead of answering the obvious, I continued with my story. “When Lennon found out that Kenneth Thomas had been behind everything, it’d been like a rabid dog off its chain. She hadn’t wanted him to go to jail like the others. She hadn’t wanted to take the chance that his father might save him.”
“So, what did she do?”
“With the help of her family, they’d been able to get Kenneth Thomas to a secured location…”
