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Leaning even closer, the scent of her freshly-washed hair fills my nose as her warm palm presses against my chest.
“Pet,” I whisper in a pathetic attempt to stop her.
Her eyes flash with excitement, I’m so fucking relieved to see something other than pain and fear that any restraint I did have flies out of the window.
Reaching out, I wrap my hand around the back of her neck, ready to anchor her to me and stop her from changing her mind.
Her fresh minty breath rushes over my face as her lips brush over mine in the gentlest kiss I think I’ve ever experienced. But as desperate as I am to take more, I hold off, giving her control.
With our eyes locked, she moves again, finally closing the remaining bit of space between us. My heart lurches in my chest and my dick jerks in excitement, but just before we dive in, a roar rips through the room, forcing us to jump apart.
“ALANA? Fuck. ALANA?” JD bellows a few seconds before the door swings open, crashing back against the wall to allow a distressed looking JD inside. “Oh my God. Fuck. FUCK,” he barks, lifting his injured arm to cover his racing heart with this hand. “I thought you’d gone again.”
32
JD
The first thing I think of when I come to is her. Not that it comes as any kind of shock. She’s always the first thing I think about.
With her scent in my nose, I reach for her. But when my hand falls, my eyes spring open and everything comes crashing down.
Frantically, I look around, trying to remember where I am.
The phone call from Aubrey.
Meeting her in the clearing and discovering where Alana and Mav were.
The aircraft hangar.
Alana strapped to the table.
Mav’s wounds.
I shoot up, my eyes on the bed where I remember her falling asleep last night. I’d wanted her with me, locked in my arms, so I could keep her close, but I was achingly aware that she was in pain and the last thing I wanted to do was make it worse, so after she had a drink, I laid her out beside her husband and allowed her to rest, without being the selfish cunt I really wanted to be.
I sat there for hours watching her. For a while, she slept peacefully, but it didn’t take all that long before the nightmares came for her.
It ripped me in two to see her suffering when she was meant to be resting.
As much as it hurt to watch her experience her nightly terrors back at our house, it’s worse now knowing that they’ve been close to her, that they’ve touched her.
Previously, they were memories of years gone by. But now…
I thought I hated Victor before, but since learning the truth about how they’ve treated the woman I’ve fallen for… fuck. I want to skin them alive, making them suffer in every single painful way I’ve learned over the years.
Even that won’t be enough.
Nothing will be enough.
Nothing will take her pain away. Nothing will rid her of the nightmares.
Finding her side of the bed empty makes my stomach bottom out and panic shoots through my veins.
No.
Jumping to my feet, I rip my eyes away from the bed where Mav is still sleeping on his front and scan the room for any hint that she’s here.
“ALANA?” I roar, my hands trembling with fear.
