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“Sweetcherie, hear what I’m telling you. You’ll lose your life if you stay. At this point I don’t know what’s going on any more than you do, but I assure you that no one is going to keep you safe if you stay. And here’s the thing. I’m not going to allow you to risk your life because of me. I’ll do anything to protect you.Whether you like it or not, you’re coming with me.” She had no idea the kind of man I was or what I was capable of doing. While she still had some sense of fear of my darkness, she’d soon learn that I protected those I cared about with whatever means were necessary.
Dear God, I wanted so much to spend time with her, shoving all this shit aside. She deserved better. Maybe even than the man determined to keep her.
“Damn you. Damn this horrible situation.” She dropped her head into her hands, her shoulders heaving. At this point, there was little I could do to comfort her. Not until we were safely out of the fucking country.
But so help me God, the motherfuckers would die. A couple of minutes passed, Michael constantly checking his mirrors.
“Shit. Don’t look now, but we got company,” Michael hissed, immediately making a turn. “I can’t lose them in all this goddamn traffic.”
I jerked around, seething from seeing the car making a turn right behind us. “Get us to Indiana. We need to lose them. I don’t care how you need to do it.”
“I will,” my soldier snarled, jerking the steering wheel to the right, narrowly avoiding getting hit.
“Damien’s parents are rich and influential,” she said almost in passing.
“Let me guess. Even though Damien was a bad seed, they were probably the ones who paid for his alibi.”
“That’s what I’m guessing. That’s sick. How could any parent protect a man so evil?” She lifted her head, seriously asking for answers.
“You might be surprised what parents will do for their children, Sedona.”
“Yeah, I guess. We’re missing something. This can’t be all about political gain.” She stared out the window, constantly shaking her head.
Horns were blaring from every direction, tires screeching, but it seemed as if we’d been dropped into slow motion.
Michael was relentless with his driving skills, almost managing to lose the tail. Then the fuckers found us again moments after we’d made it into Indiana. “Shit. They’re on us again.”
“Yeah, well, I know this area,” he told me. “I’ll find a good stopping point.”
“Stopping? Where are you taking us?” she demanded, doing her best to scoot as far away from me as possible.
“My pilot is in Cincinnati.”
“No. No. No.” Her groan was full of exasperation.
“Haven’t you figured out by now that I’m the only hope you have of remaining alive? Someone wants you dead, Sedona. They figured out you’re not a team player.”
“That’s exactly what my boss said.” She laughed bitterly, but I could sense she was right on the edge of losing it. “You killed that man on the street. Do you know what that means?”
“I couldn’t give a shit at this point. It’s kill or be killed.” I yanked out another magazine, ready to switch as Michael was forced to slow down.
My lovelycherietook that very moment to try to escape, managing to open the door before I could jerk her back.
“Let me go. You might think it’s okay to be judge and jury, but that’s not what others in society believes.”
“That is not going to happen. You don’t seem to understand this is our lives we’re talking about. As far as others in society? Haven’t you seen up close and personal everyone can and will cross the imaginary line of good versus evil at some point? As I learned a long time ago, everyone has a price.”
“Not everyone, Jonny. I’m not like the people you’re used to dealing with and I’m not your prisoner. You’re not taking me away from this fight. I’m not going to run like some scared little girl. That wasn’t how my daddy raised me.”
“It would seem your daddy did just fine, Sedona. However, he can’t protect you from the evil in this world.”
“And you can?”
“Yes. We need to work together. You know that inside that big brain of yours.”
She twisted her lips, the fear remaining. How the hell could I blame her? Her entire world had been rocked, everything she believed in shot to shit.
For the next fifteen minutes, the situation remained harried. Once we hit a back road, I had to place my trust in my soldier in being able to get us the hell out of the mess. He was originallyfrom the States, having grown up in the area. If anyone could lose the tail and keep us safe, it was him.
