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I open the top of a dumpster and there’s my Sassy girl hiding with the trash. I lift her out, “Come on, baby. I’ve got you.”
Pulling her into my chest, I hold her while she sobs.
I grab my cell phone and text Max.
Me:I’ve got her.
Max:I’ll call a car for you.
I send him my coordinates.
She pulls back from me and asks, “Are you mad at me?”
I shake my head, “Fucking furious. You have no idea how much trouble you are in. But right now, I want to get you home.”
Jade trembles in my arms, “I’m sorry.”
I sigh, “I know you are. But you cost us one of our guys. He’s fucking dead, Jade. You could’ve cost Max, Willow. I can’t even begin to tell you how bad that would’ve been. So, yeah, I know you’re sorry, Jade. But sorry isn’t enough.”
The car arrives and I pull her arm to the car and help her in, slide in beside her, and she stares out the window avoiding my gaze.
“So, I’m Jade now?”
I growl, “Is that not your fucking name?”
When she looks over at me with tears in her eyes, she whispers, “Not to you. It never has been.”
Part of me wants to hold her, kiss her, tell her I love her, but I’m just so fucking pissed. She put herself and Willow in so much danger. Gage is dead. And now Willow may very well have a target on her back. Running from him the way she did, just made this the most exciting game to him. My father gets off on fear. He will not stop.
Jade puts her face in her hands and sobs. It takes everything in me to not comfort her and tell her it’s okay. I don’t because none of this is fucking okay. I left her alone for one fucking day.
The worst part is, she must be punished. I won’t hit her. There’s only one other thing I can think of to send the message to her that her disobedience will not be tolerated. That putting herself in danger will not be acceptable. All the progress we made is about to be undone. Once again, she’s going to hate me. But I have to do this.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
JADE
We walk into the house, and Hunter says, “Shower. Now.”
Like a dog with its tail between its legs, I walk up the stairs to the master bathroom.
I get undressed and turn the shower on. Stepping inside, I hear Hunter behind me. He doesn’t say a word, so I don’t either. I glance the shower door and spot him glaring at me. He stands leaning against the doorframe with his feet crossed and his arms folded over his chest, silently watching me.
“You can go. I’m sure I can figure out how to shower on my own.”
I can literally hear his smirk, “Apparently, I can’t trust you to be left alone. Things are about to change, Jade.”
Every time he calls me Jade my heart hurts a little bit more. He has called me Sassy Girl since we were young kids. In my teenage years, it was Sassy more often than Sassy Girl. He rarely called me Jade. It says so much without saying anything at all.
I turn the water off and step out of the shower and he hands me a towel.
“Dry off.”
As I dry off, I bite, “Yes, sir.”
He stalks to me and pushes me against the wall, “Don’t fucking push me, Jade.”
I swallow hard and he steps away into the bedroom.
