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“Why?” I snap.
He glares at me, his dark brown eyes smoldering as his jaw works while he tries to keep his temper in check. He probably came in here trying to be nice. As if he could get me back on side by pretending that he cares about me. Cashing in on the fact that he rescued me from that horrible cell in the basement. I swallow hard as I recall how good it was to be held in his arms a few hours ago. How the warmth of his body against mine still brings me comfort despite everything that’s happened.
“Because I fucking told you to,” he eventually snarls before turning around and walking through the open door.
I lie back against the pillows, unable to stop the tears rolling down my cheeks. I wish I knew how we’d ended up here too.
Chapter
Fourteen
JESSIE
The following morning, Conor and Liam come to my room to tell me that I’m wanted for a family meeting. Their family now, obviously, and no longer mine. I walk along the hallway behind Conor and with Liam trailing behind me. When we reach the dining room, Shane and Mikey sit at the table already waiting and I swallow as I glance around the room, recalling what happened the last time we were in here and we made our ‘cum oath’. The night when I was officially welcomed into the family. What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
“Sit,” Shane orders as I reach the table and, like an obedient puppy dog, I do as I’m told.
Conor and Liam sit next to their brothers and the four of them stare at me like I’m at a job interview. I glare back at them. They don’t intimidate me.
“Shall we just get this over with?” I snap.
Shane scowls and rubs a hand over his jaw and Mikey grins, but it’s Conor who speaks.
“You want out of here, Jessie?” he asks.
“What do you think, asshole?”
“I told you this isn’t going to get us anywhere,” Shane snarls.
“And like I said, what’s our alternative?” Conor frowns at him and suddenly I’m wondering what that alternative is too. Are they just going to kill me after going to all of this trouble to keep me alive?
Shane turns back to me. “You can walk out of here today. But in order for us to allow that to happen, you’re going to have to tell us the truth. Now, I appreciate that’s like asking the rain not to fall, but you can manage it sometimes, right?”
“You keep talking about me lying to you, Shane, but I only ever lied about who I was when I first met you,” I snarl at him. “You’re the liar. All of you are.”
He rolls his eyes while the other three frown at me.
“Who are you working for?” Shane asks.
“Nobody. I told you that.”
“You’re lying.”
“I am not. Who the hell would I be working for? What do you think you have here, the codes for Fort Knox or something? So, you have money? Anyone can take your money if they want it bad enough. What the hell would I be doing here for months?”
“Then why were you holed up in the fortress of Alexei Ivanov? The head of the Russian mob?” Shane snaps.
I frown in confusion. Who the hell is Alexei Ivanov? “If that’s his place, then I was just staying there with someone.”
“Who?”
“None of your damn business.”
“Really? Don’t you think you owe us that much, Jessie?”
“Owe you? I owe you nothing. I have never done anything to harm any of you. I did the jobs you asked me to do. I never asked for anything from any of you. What we did… I never,” I shake my head and don’t finish the sentence because thinking about what we were is too painful.
“For fuck’s sake, Jessie. You walk out of here with some Russian, holding his fucking hand. You won’t tell us who he is and you expect us to believe that you weren’t up to something?”
