AllFreeNovel
Share Us
My wild eyes keep looking from the paper to Elliot and back. I’m speechless. This is graphic to the point it makes me feel sick.
“They’re getting worse…” Am I hyperventilating right now?Me?
“Hey, hey,” Elliot whispers as he tries to take the paper back. I can’t seem to let it go, and he forcefully makes me. “That shit is just empty threats, Jade. Nothing is going to happen to you.”
But I can’t talk. The blood has drained from my face and my lips are numb. I only realize I’m shaking when he puts a hand on my thigh.
“Jade,” he insists. “Look at me.”
I can’t. I’m going to die. Someone is going to slit my throat, and I will bleed to death in fifteen minutes.
I can’t breathe.
How badly does it hurt? Will I feel my blood draining, or will I pass out quickly?
“Jade, breathe.” My hand is subconsciously at my throat. I only realize that because he moves it away before grabbing my chin tightly and forcing me to look at him. “Breathe, baby.”
When my lungs refuse to stop inhaling in a staccato rhythm, Elliot grabs me by the waist, easily lifting me and dragging me across the center console. I land on his lap, my knees on either side of his thighs.
“Stop…” I whine. “Your shoulder. You’re bleeding.”
“Logan can’t aim for shit. It’s just a graze.”
“Thatgrazeis bleeding profusely right now.”
He waves a hand in the air, showing he doesn’t care.
“Look at me. You’re fine.” He holds me with a hand wrapped around my jaw. “I will never let anyone hurt you.”
He untucks my t-shirt from my skirt and slides his free hand under it, rubbing soothing circles in the middle of my back like he did earlier. “My love, I’ll kill them before they get anywhere near you.”
“Like—Like you killed Zara.” It’s terrifying to think Elliot would ever order Ethan to kill someone because he wanted to know where I was.
Every day the blond brother becomes more and more dangerous in my eyes. What level of lethal is he?
He freezes under me. His eyes are void of any emotion when he fixes them on me. “I wanted to find you. I did.”
This is insane. My life is spinning out of control.
“You don’t know who they are. That person sending me notes. You don’t know…what they can do.”
“It doesn’t matter who they are. They can be a fucking assassin, for all I care. No one touches you.”
“Because we have a deal.” The words barely make it past the knot in my throat. They taste bitter on my tongue.
He shakes his head, his hand resuming his circles on my skin. “You’re mine, Jade. Deal or not, I promise you they’d have to go through me if they want to touch you. I’ll die before I see you hurt.”
His hand at my back pushes me forward until my lips land on his.
And here it is. The kiss that holds a million feelings. He doesn’t bite my lip this time. Instead, he strokes my tongue in a way that should be illegal.
It’s criminal to communicate how much he cares for me in a simple kiss.
It complicates everything to kiss him back and show him I want everything he has to give me.
Elliot and I were never serious. Fucking around was fun in the past…and he’s turning this into something beautiful.
How terrifying.
