AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Lies…
My knee twitched and shook. I grabbed the damn thing in the dark and whispered.“Yeah, you’ll see.”
I didn’t know if the words were for her or for me.
But by sheer fucking will, I’d make it true. I looked at those shimmering tears falling from the edge of her jaw and that pain in my leg turned into pure fucking rage.
The blur of the gates came before we tore through them, then the tires squealed and Nick spun the wheel, throwing me against the door. A moan ripped free before I could bite down and swallow the sound. I didn’t have time to grab my knee as Ryth was flung toward me. I grabbed my sister instead as she slammed into me.
“Easy.” I pulled her close. “I’ve got you.”
Still, the pain was consuming. My world grayed at the edges. But I didn’t roar at Nick. I urged him to go faster. “Move!”
“Trying.” Nick spun the wheel again and punched the accelerator.
The sedan was a junky piece of shit, used to rolling past corners while money was traded for drugs. Not this…
“We can’t just leave him there.” Ryth shook her head, looking behind us as we left that fucking place behind. “We can’t.”
I tried my best to still the tremble in my hands and turned to her. “Look at me.”
She did, staring up at me, and everything hit me all at once. Mom’s death. Her abduction. My own fucking father…damn…my own fucking father.She didn’t even know. I glanced at Caleb as I realized he didn’t either. Didn’t know dad was dead…and he'd tried to fucking kill me.
“I thought you were dead,” she whispered, shaking her head. “I thought you were…”
“Not even death wanted me, princess,” I answered, holding on tight. “Only you…always you.”
Energy arced between us before she slammed against me, clawing my shirt, grasping my neck, pulling me into her. Fuck, I didn’t need to be asked twice. I fisted her hair and kissed her hard, gripping her jaw as I crushed her fucking mouth.
I needed her. Christ, I needed her. I released my hold, palming her breast instead. Her perfect, small fucking breast. Her tight peak grazed my palm, tightening with the contact. I needed to be inside her. Ihungeredto be inside her. To feel her, to lick her. To know she was alive and here and…mine.
To know she was mine.
I lowered my head to the crook of her neck and inhaled deeply. The sharp, clinical scent of that fucking place clung to her. But underneath it…was that faint, sweet fucking scent of vanilla.
“You scared the hell out of me.” I fisted her hair and yanked, pulling her head backwards, hard enough for her to know I was pissed. “Don’t ever do that again. From now on…we stick together.Do you hear me? We stick together.Every goddamn second of the fucking day, until we can get the hell out of here.”
Fresh tears slipped free as she nodded. The sight of that was a cocked fist to my balls. My callused thumb was too rough for her skin. Still, I brushed the trail away. “They’re not going to kill him. He won’t let them.”
“Yeah, they will.” Her voice was so goddamn sure and so…fucking empty.“He walked in there to save me.”
Nick lifted his gaze and those dark eyes bored into mine.
I shook my head. “If you think he just went in there blindly, then you don’t know your father. He’s fucking smart, Ryth. He’s so fucking smart, and that makes him dangerous to them. The things he’s told us, the people who are involved… No wonder they wanted—”
“T.” Nick warned, stopping me cold.
My heart hammered. Christ, if she knew the things her father had told us. Things we only guessed after reading her mom's journal. Chilling things. Things that should never see the light of day. The people who were behind this corrupt, twisted shit, it was fucking sickening.
But she didn’t need to know about that now. Because that kind of shit would only bring her undone. She watched Nick in the rear-view mirror, then turned to me.
I brushed some strands of hair from her eyes. “Trust us, princess. He’s gone in there with a plan.”
I didn’t know if she believed me. I didn’t know if I would, either, in her position.
“Hand me that.” Nick nodded to Caleb.
Caleb grabbed the GPS from the dashboard in front of him and handed it over. “Nick.…” he started.
