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Repeatedly fighting her case while Joshua drove off and Case followed in her car, she was met with silence from the other two occupants.
That did it.
She stepped up her efforts to be heard.
“Dammit, Lacey, you’re going to get yourself hurt.”
She didn’t stop—well, except when Tyler reached under the seat, retrieved some rope, and then proceeded to bind her wrists and ankles. He did so easily, tossing her around like she weighed nothing. He treated her as if she were one of his freaking farm animals. Of all the things...
“You pigheaded, absolute giant—”
She didn’t get to say the word ‘asses’ because Tyler then gagged her with another piece of rope, so she sat there, muffling her fury for the duration of the trip, wishing she could poke each of their eyes out.
They couldn’t take her back home. What if Jenna were there to witness her fail after two minutes into her attempt to validate her statement?
Gosh, she hated these cocky cowboys with a deep-seated passion that made every part of her body blaze with red-hot fury.
Chapter Six
Lacey stood outside the front door of the Holland residence, shaking mad. The rope restraints had been almost tenderly removed from her body. Her bags had been carefully placed beside her. Her car was perfectly parked in its place.
And the Kennedy cowboys had fled because that’s what it felt as if they had done. They had left her home and fled.
Biting her lip really hard, she lifted her chin, squared her shoulders, and calculated her next move.
Right.
A smile started to form on her face.
Some kind of cowboys they were, because if they were worth their reputation, they would know firsthand that when a horse throws its rider, the rider gets right back up again.
She picked up her bags, loaded her car, and drove off again. The darkening clouds she saw in the background were just meant to steer her off track. But nothing was going to stop her.
She just had to keep envisioning the moment she went up to Jenna and slapped her with abeen there, wifed them, done that, snap. Oh, it was going to be so good. So, so, so good when she got to say those words.
Also, this time she would make sure the Kennedy brothers were going to be willing to give her a chance. What did they have to lose? Nothing. She would make them see that.
By the time she drove up to the Kennedy land, it had already started to drizzle a little. No problem. She wasn’t afraid of a little rain. Nothing was going to set her back. Except a closed gate.
Lacey was forced to switch off her car, climb out in the light rain, and see if she could open the damn gate. To her utter horror, they had basically locked her out.
She jerked on the gate, the chains rattling loudly around her.
Ugh.
Is that how they wanted to play it?
Fine.
With her chin still lifted, she climbed back into her car and started it up again. If they thought they could keep her out with locks and chains, they didn’t know her at all or her level of commitment to proving Jenna wrong.
She remembered when they were younger that there was another route around the other side of the mountain that would take her to Kennedy Ranch.
Without another thought further, she backed up, veered left, and found herself on a bumpy gravel road.
Ten minutes into her side adventure, the clouds decided to open up on her, and... well, it just started raining daggers all around her.
She was too far up the mountain to turn back, which left her with the only option of praying she didn’t die and continuing her journey.
