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He looked away, and I knew I had him.
He pulled his keys out of his pocket and tossed them to me. “Take my truck, and text me where it’s parked. Don’t you dare get yourself killed. I expect you back here with me within forty-eight hours.”
I fisted my hand in Rhys’s shirt and yanked him to me.
When we kissed, it was more like a fight, until the moment he melted, and I felt all the tangled-up feelings raging in him like they were in me. Pulling away from him was the hardest thing I’d ever done. “I’ll be back as soon as I can.”
28
RHYS
“Ican’t believe you just let him go,” Grant yelled. “He’s my responsibility.”
“Our responsibility,” Rogue said.
“He was going to find a way to leave no matter what I did.”
“You care about him. I know you do. How could you—”
“Because I can’t trap him. No matter how much I might wish things were different, nothing could work between us. He was ultimately going back there anyway.” He would disappear just like Rogue had no matter how many times I told him he didn’t have to try to kill himself bull riding for us to survive.
“Maybe so, but he shouldn’t be unprotected while his cousin is still alive.”
“How much longer do you think we could have realistically kept him here?”
“For all we know, X might have been ready for him to go in today anyway.”
Rogue shook his head at me. “You’re determined to fuck everything up, aren’t you?”
“This is none of your business.”
“It’s all of our business,” Grant said.
“No. TJ’s father sent him here, and now he’s ordered him home.”
“You know it’s stupid for him to leave. Why the hell are you defending him?”
Because if I didn’t, I was going to fall apart. The room began to whirl in front of me, and I had to grab the back of a chair to steady myself.
“For God’s sake, you really are messed up.” Rogue grabbed my arm and helped me to sit.
“I’m going after him,” Grant said.
“Please don’t. It won’t help. He’ll find another way to leave. Wouldn’t you?”
Grant glared at me but didn’t leave.
“That’s how he got to you, isn’t it?” Rogue asked. “He knows you’re just as stubborn as he is.”
“You know you wouldn’t sit around if Grant or I were missing, even if you knew you were walking into a trap.”
“He knows it’s a fucking trap?” Grant looked at me like I’d lost my mind.
“His father was hesitant, and his tone was off. TJ knows something’s wrong that his father isn’t saying.”
“And the stupid bastard left anyway?”
“I did try to stop him.” I rested my head in my hands and pressed my palms into my eyes. How had I just given him my keys and let him go? “He didn’t want to be protected. He didn’t want to be here.”
