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I lifted my brows at him. “And I told you I was fine.”
He sniffed and shook his head. “You can’t tell me you got into an altercation with that guy and came away without even a scratch.”
“But I can tell you I didn’t get into an altercation with himat all,” I countered and then lifted my arms before turning in a circle to show him I was fine. “I didn’t evenseethe motherfucker. Trick found him first and dealt with him. I found Chloe and stayed withher. See.”
Finishing my circle, I started to lower my arms, but JB caught my wrist and turned my arm until he was looking at my palms that I’d scraped up when I’d tried to free her from the handcuffs.
“Then what’s this?”
I jerked my hand free so I could wrap the towel around my waist. “It’s nothing.”
“Sit,” my brother instructed, producing a small medical kit from who knew where. Probably from up his ass.
“I’m fine,” I said, snorting over his worries.
He arched his brows and repeated, “Sit.”
With a growl of annoyance, I sat just to get him to shut up. And then I let my brother dab at the cuts with antiseptic and patch a few Band-Aids on them.
When he finally nodded as if satisfied with my care, I scoffed at him as my asshole way of sayingthanks,and I finished drying off. My mood didn’t encourage him to leave, though. Folding his arms over his chest, he leaned against the wall and stayed, studying me with those watchful eyes.
“How bad was it?” he finally asked.
Shaking my head, I blurted out a harsh laugh and muttered, “Oh, you know. Just bad enough to ensure that I’ll never sleep right again without having fucking nightmares for the rest of my life. But other than that, yeah, it was a walk in the park.”
JB said nothing, just kept watching me as I yanked on the scrubs.
I wasn’t going to tell him, I swore to myself. I wasn’t going to say a damn thing, but as soon as I was fully clothed and shoving my way back into my shoes, it all just came tumbling out against my will.
Probably because of his stupid, big-brother superpowers or something. JB always had a way of making me confess all. Just by looking at me.
“He had her chained naked to the fucking floor of his basement,” I rasped, gripping my head and turning in a circle in an attempt to escape the memories.
“Shit,” JB breathed.
“I couldn’t find her handcuff key, and she was just there, you know, on the floor, shivering, wet, and naked. And I—I—”
“Wet?” JB repeated in confusion. “Why was she wet?”
I waved dismissively. “She said he’d cleaned her off with a water hose or something. Like he wanted to get all the other men off her before he took her himself.”
JB’s eyes flared with revulsion. “So he—”
“No.” I shook my head. “She swears he didn’t get that far. He wasn’t there when I found her because he was supposedly looking for more cleaners to use on her, so he hadn’t… But fuck, man. He knocked her unconscious atLucy’s, and she didn’t wake up again until she was already chained to the floor. What if he—you know—while she was out?”
JB nodded slowly, looking pale. “Dad’s doing a rape kit on her, so we’ll know for sure pretty soon.”
My mouth dropped open. “Seriously? A fucking rape kit? Hasn’t she already been through enough?”
“I know,” my brother murmured in a calming voice. “She has. But the police requested it. And you know Dad. He’ll make it the least invasive procedure that he possibly can.”
“Least invasive?” I growled incredulously. “He has to go into her vagina and get samples. I mean, fuck!” I kicked at a row of lockers, losing my cool. “How is that not going to suck at all?”
“Luke—” JB started.
But I roared, “No! She shouldn’t have to do this. She went to the fucking police about this guy. How the hell did he get to her? I don’t—” Growling out my misery, I gripped my head and turned in a circle. “How can anyonedothat to another person? He treated her worse than a wild animal. And all they did was take him to jail. The fucker’s a freak. A monster. He shouldn’t...” Leaning against the wall, I started to slide down until I was sitting on the floor. “He shouldn’t have gotten anywhere near her.”
JB didn’t reply, he just sat down beside me and wrapped an arm around my shoulders until he was pulling me close and tipping his head over so that our temples touched.
