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His eyes glued to me, vomit sprayed all over his collar, a little on his face.
He didn’t wipe it away.
Just stared at me with that crazy smile on his face.
He tilted his head, “No?"
Where even was Rook?
Maybe he was still inside, dancing with the beautiful woman in white.
Maybe he'd left me to fend for myself. Or ran away—assuming I was going to give him up.
I had no clue.
But it didn't matter.
He'd taught me one thing that had stuck.
I wasn't a pawn in someone else's game.
I was my own fucking person.
And, despite how many things in my life that I couldn't control, I could control one thing.
My-fucking-self.
My eyes went to Harrison. I remembered that night, how he’d tried to rape me. How Blake held back a kicking and screaming Callie. Rook saved me that night.
And he’d been taking care of me ever since, even when I didn’t realize it.
He’d given up everything for me—his truth. The one thing keeping him protected.
And he’d given that up—for me.
Even when he shouldn’t have, because I’d been so naive and stupid, despite his warnings. When my own father had betrayed him. When no one had been able to save him.
I suddenly realized that Rook had one of the biggest hearts in the world. Sacrificing himself for me with only the promise of betrayal in return.
No one protected him. Not in the way he needed.
Would I be the next one in line to hurt him?
I shook my head, determination filling me—I wouldn't be the person who betrayed Rook.
Fuck the Magnolia, and especially fuck Saul.
"No." I stared into that mother-fucker's eyes. "I don't know anything."
Saul's face grew red, his eyes filled with rage, and he jerked to his feet. He heaved a chunk of flesh over the dock. "You want to be alligator meat? That's fine with me." Grabbing the bag, he emptied the rest of the fresh corpses over the side.
There was the thrashing of sound below: alligators.
"Take her," he commanded, and hand heaved me from the wooden dock, pulling me to my feet.
"Tell him," Maxon said low in my ear, "Rook told me you knew what to do.”
I shook my head, though panic was beginning to set in. My breathing heaved.
