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Helene
“Say their names, Helene,” Hunter murmured. “Say their names and they’re as good as dead.”
Goosebumps raced along the nape of my neck. It was almost as though he wanted me to force his hand…as though he expected me to say someone he knew.
Not just knew.
Was bound to by blood.
Heat rushed to my cheeks. That was it. I searched those dark eyes, then shifted my focus to his hard lips. “You think Riven did this?”
“Didn’t he?” He stepped closer and lifted his hand. His callused fingers gently brushed the throbbing ache at the edge of my cheek. “Say his name and I’ll kill him, brother or not…no man that hurts a woman like that deserves to live.”
I’m afraid you won't be making you date, Helene Montgomery…tonight, or any other night for that matter.
That savage Riven had come to life. That bestial male that had drugged and tied me up on his sofa. He’d raped me then, he’d fucked me until he was the one I craved. I closed my eyes, every cell in my body humming with the thought of his hands on me.
“You watched the corridors,” I said carefully, then opened my eyes. “So you know what happened.”
He scowled, then glanced at the screen. “I searched, but there was nothing.”
He’d searched?
So he did think it was Riven.
I lowered my gaze to the darkening bruises around my wrists and tried to hide them behind my back. “It wasn’t him. He wouldn’t?—”
“You want to explain my own brother to me? I know what he’s capable of. I know what they’re all capable of.”
Get her to the table.
I swallowed as those words surfaced again. “It was Coulter,” I whispered.
“What?”
I lifted my head, anger blasting to the surface. This felt like that moment in the cafeteria all over again, the one where I’d been forced to own what had happened to me. My voice shook now, just as it had shaken then. “It was Coulter and his men. They’d tried to get me twice that night. Once I escaped, the last time I…” my voice slowed and sounded distorted in my ears. “I didn’t.”
“Coulter?” That scowl deepened. “The bastard who took over The Order?”
“Yes.”
He gently pulled my hands from behind my back. “They did this?” He softly touched the bruises their hands had left behind. “And the ones around your ankles?”
Get her to the table.
They’d done a lot more than that.
But I wasn’t going to think about that, let alone say it.
My throat thickened as tears threatened to fill my eyes. Don’t let them win. Don’t you dare. That dark, endless lake from my nightmare lingered in the back of my mind, the depths drawing me under. But I refused to go. Instead, I forced that horror down, pushing it all the way under until I couldn’t see it…nor could I feel it.
My tone was stronger this time. Stronger and colder. “Coulter and his men are the ones you want. Not Riven. He and Kane…they…”
Owned.
They owned me.
