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With that, she left.
“I gotta go run,” Dad said as he too stood up. “I’ll talk about this later. If I don’t go now, it’s going to be too hot and I’ll die.”
“Amen to that,” Lock said. “I made that mistake of being a little late yesterday.” His eyes caught and held mine. “It was miserable.”
I felt my belly flutter.
I was the reason he was a little late.
Lock winked.
Worth it,he mouthed.
I would not be charmed. I would not be charmed.
The moment I heard the door close behind my dad, I stomped to my old bedroom.
I’d intended on throwing myself into my room and locking the door.
I accomplished it, too.
Only, there wasn’t supposed to be anybody in the room when I did it.
There was just supposed to be me.
Not Kristoff, the man that had made a few months of my life in my young teenage years a living nightmare.
“Let me in, Saylor,” Lock ordered.
I twisted the lock on the door unconsciously, and Kristoff’s left eye twitched.
The hand holding the gun pointed at me? That didn’t twitch.
“We need to talk about this like two adults…” Lock trailed off when he caught sight of Kristoff.
His hand went automatically to his back, where he usually kept his pistol when he wasn’t on duty, but it wasn’t there.
It was actually beside the bed behind Kristoff.
I could see it on the nightstand next to the wedding ring bag he’d been carrying around with him all day yesterday.
I could practically read the loathing coming off of Lock’s body as he chastised himself for his lack of preparation.
“Get in here and close the door,” he ordered. “Sit down on the bed.”
We both sat, sadly, on the opposite side of the bed from Lock’s gun.
“Long time no see,” Lock said, eyes narrowing.
I frowned.
“Yeah, it’s been a while since you beat the shit out of me for no reason, huh?” he asked. “All because your uptight sister thought it would be a great idea to lie and tell you that I tried to force her to have sex with me.”
So, this was Ares’ Kristoff, too?
What were the freakin’ odds?
“Lie?” Lock said. “I highly doubt it.”
