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“Cal?”
“He’s not going to bother you ever again.” I yanked on the door handle. It didn’t give. Locked.
I pulled up the lock.
She clamped a hand on my thigh. “You can’t stop him.”
“The hell I can’t.”
“He’ll destroy you.”
“Not without a clear message to leave you alone first.”
I opened the door, had one foot out.
“Garrett. Stop.”
Something in her desperation gave me pause.
“Please. Keep going. Just take me home.”
I sat, half in and half out. The car pulled over several spaces back. No one got out.
“I need a good reason to do that.”
She squeezed her eyes as if in pain. And I inched closer to getting out. If I could stop her hurt, I didn’t care who did what to me.
“It’s my father.”
Chapter Twenty-One
Beau
He’d seenCal’s truck.
I rolled over. Who was I kidding? He already knew it. If not from me, then from following Teague.
But I’d always been careful to keep Cal off my father’s radar.
After the way Cal had tried to lose him, I wouldn’t be able to explain that away. Not like I could have if he’d just driven me home like a normal person. It was just Teague’s friend giving me a lift.
I turned again, adjusting the pillow.
I was a grown woman at the helm of a multi-billion-dollar company. And my father dictated my life.
In London, it was easier to keep the illusion thatIwas in control. That my decisions were my own.
But they weren’t. And they never had been.
Time was running out or Father wouldn’t be the only one controlling my life. Alex Davenport would be too.
What if I went back to London?
I could leave now. Make them follow me if they wanted me to do as they said.
What about Teague and Pepper’s wedding?
I promised I wouldn’t miss it. I didn’t want to miss it.
