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“What is it, Mia? What’s going on?”
“They’re in the bedroom.”
The closet door meets a similar fate, and before I can take my next breath, I’m face-to-face with the man who started it all.
“There you are. I’ve been searching for you.”
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
ACE
Like before, it takes me a moment to figure out where the fuck I am when I wake up, except this time I have a piercing pain shooting through my head, and I’m immediately aware of the fact I’m not laying down.
I pry my eyes open and look around the dark apartment. What the hell happened?
I move my gaze over the room until I pause on the broken lamp by the side table, and it all comes crashing back.
Waking up. Kyle and the idiot security guard. Being pistol-whipped. It’s like a movie playing in front of my eyes, but it feels more like a nightmare.
My eyes move to the stairs and flick between the two bedrooms. Please be in the panic room, Mia. God, I hope she woke up and called for help. Any of the Saint James family would have coached her to get her into that panic room, and I don’t care about anything except making sure she’s safe.
I look down at the chair I’m in and sigh. I’m tied to one of the expensive dining chairs, and the only way I’m getting out of this damn thing is to break it. Hopefully Snow’s not too attached to the furniture in this place.
A bloodcurdling scream rattles off the walls, and my stomach sinks.
Mia.
Panic flares to life in my chest as I stare up at her bedroom door. She went for the panic room, that much I’m certain of, but she didn’t make it. Not if her scream is anything to go by.
I tug at the rope around my wrists, trying to remember how the fuck the Doms at the club I used to attend taught the subs to break a knot. Of course that was with Shibari rope and not whatever hardware store shit they’ve tied me up with, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
The rope cuts into my wrists, but the pain doesn’t register. The only thing I can think about, the only thing I can feel, is making sure they don’t leave this apartment with Mia.
Another scream comes moments after the first, followed by a string of profanities that would make a fucking sailor blush.
There’s my girl.
I consider tipping the chair over to try to break it, but this thing is sturdy as hell, and even with my height and build, I don’t like my chances at getting it to splinter.
I catch sight of movement upstairs and pause, considering my next move. Do I pretend I’m still knocked out? If they know I’m awake, they might knock me out again. But then they may want me to watch them take her from me. That’s the type of assholes they are, and at least if I’m awake, I have a better chance of being able to catch up to them.
I watch as Todd carries Mia across the landing, kicking and screaming like her life depends on it. A month ago, she never would have fought like this, but she has something to live for now. She has friends, a life, me. And she’s going to fight tooth and nail to keep the life she worked so fucking hard to get.
“Get your hands off me!” she screams, beating her fists against his back with every step he takes, but the move only has me holding my breath. One wrong step, and he could drop her. If she moves the wrong way, she could go straight off the edge, and I would be forced to watch her die in front of me.
The thought has bile climbing up the back of my throat. No. I won’t let that happen. And they’re sure as hell not taking her from me. Over my dead body.
“Oh good, you’re awake.” Kyle grins like the fucking Cheshire Cat as he leads the way down the stairs. “I wouldn’t want you to miss us taking her from you…again.”
A growl escapes my throat before I can swallow it, my body fighting against the binds with every ounce of strength I have.
He’s not taking her.
Not again.
Not when we’re both starting to live again.
I won’t be able to live with the guilt of her slipping through my fingers, that much I know for a fact. They’ll never give me another chance to save her. Kyle will keep her hidden away for the rest of her life, which if his previous wives are anything to go by, won’t be very long.
