Page 170 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

Siena’s gaze drifted from John, and then back to Andino. “What will happen if I don’t go?”

“They have several vehicles outside at the moment. We can safely assume each one has a driver, obviously, but likely more. What do you think?”

No.

Her heart broke all over again.

“I’m sorry,” Andino murmured.

Siena shook her head, and quickly wiped away the tears that slipped down over her cheeks. “No, it’s okay.”

It really wasn’t.

She could only imagine what life was going to be like for her once she left this house. She had not only attacked her brothers in order to help John, but also betrayed her own family. They had probably found her father’s body by now, and put things together seeing as how they found her with John.

This was bad.

For her, it was going to be really bad.

Moving off the bed, Siena headed for the door with slow steps. Every single inch of her screamed to turn back around, and hide in the bed with John.

At the door, Andino stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.

“This isn’t over,” he told her. “Know that this is only temporary.”

“I don’t know anything, Andino.”

All she wanted was John.

Andino nodded once. “We’ll finish this.”

She didn’t ask how.

She didn’t want to know.

“How fast?” she asked.

“That, I don’t know.”

Siena looked back at John. “They can’t ever hurt him like that again, Andino. No one can ever hurt him or use his own mind against him ever again.”

The man stared at her for a long while, saying nothing. Like maybe he had found something he hadn’t even been looking for.

Siena knew what it was.

Loyalty.

Like him, her loyalty was sparse and carefully hidden. She didn’t offer it freely, and only to a select few.

John was one of them.

He would always be.

“Ever,” Siena repeated.

“Never,” Andino agreed.