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“You don’t want to know.”
“I do,” I snapped. “If I don’t figure out a way…” I took a deep breath, my temper dispersing as fear rammed me in the stomach. “If I don’t run away, I’ll end up married to him.”
Digger’s gaze was calm, measured as he stared at me. “Let’s just say I know where he’s buried a couple of his missing wives. The guy’s got more in common with Henry VIII than obesity.”
My eyes closed of their own volition, and I stood there, feeling as frail as a sapling in a tornado when I knew I had to be as strong as a sequoia. Only, I wasn’t. I wasn’t that strong. I never had been.
Women in my world weren’t bred to be.
I’d already accomplished more than most in my social circle by going to college. But knowing my father wanted to marry me off to a man who’d murdered his wives told me I’d been right to grow some balls and attempt an escape.
A hand dropped onto my shoulder, and it smoothed down my arm. “Hey, it’s okay. We’ll figure it out.”
Fear throbbed through my being. “There’s no escaping death.”
His brow puckered, then he did the craziest thing—he moved his hand higher so that he could cup my chin. I tensed, unsure of what he was going to do next, but he just let his warmth fill me.
In the quiet that followed, his scent reached out like a hug, and I sucked it in.
He smelled nothing like the men I knew. No expensive aftershaves or colognes. No fancy starch for his suits. He just smelled like soap.
I had no idea why that was comforting, but it was.
He smelled clean. No frills, nothing fancy.
I liked that. It was reassuring because it was so different than what I was used to.And what I was used to was toxic and sullied.
As our gazes tangled, held,linked, much like what had happened at the house in Westchester so many years ago, it felt as if someone hit pause on life.
As if everything came to a halt.
The whirl of the wind around us, the noise of traffic in the distance, the loud music from the clubhouse—it all came to a stop.
Then, he murmured, “There’s no escaping death, but you gotta live your life to the fullest before your time is up.”
And somehow, I knew he’d help me do exactly that.
5
DIGGER
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE - THE FRAY
When she stood there,eyes closed in front of a man with more blood on his hands than a butcher, as vulnerable as a woman could be, something twinged inside me.
At that moment, her fear was such that she was more scared of what she was running from than the threats in front of her.
That was a dangerous position to be in.
I wasn’t a sexual predator, and though I trusted my brothers implicitly, some’d proven themselves unworthy of a Sinner’s patch.
Dog, a mean motherfucker, was one of them.
If he’d been on the gates, if she’d just exposed her vulnerabilities to him, he’d have taken advantage of her.
He wouldn’t care that she was Sin’s sister. He wouldn’t give a damn that she was family—he’d have hurt her.
And if she hadn’t come here, many other men could’ve hurt her too. Her father included if he was going to tie her to a fucker like Bill Murphy.
