Total pages in book: 171
Estimated words: 167204 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 836(@200wpm)___ 669(@250wpm)___ 557(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 167204 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 836(@200wpm)___ 669(@250wpm)___ 557(@300wpm)
I’m guessing no relief came for him, either. Killian wanted to make him experience the moment, but not enough to hook him up to a breathing machine to prolong it.
A shudder passes over me as I slowly push myself up.
“There she is,” says the guy in the seat across from me.
“Can I remove the blindfold?” I ask.
“No. But I appreciate you asking.”
“I told you she’d fucking cooperate,” Shane mutters, then I think he turns his head in my direction because his voice sounds like it’s directed at me. “You all right?”
I nod, getting myself in the seat the right way and tugging at the hem of my nightgown, wishing I would have put on a set with shorts.
“Don’t worry,” says the guy seated across from me. “We won’t hurt you. Not like that.”
“He won’t look, either,” Shane assures me. “He’s got his own girl to torment.”
Up until now, the man sitting across from me has sounded rather good-natured for a scary intruder who helped steal me out of my bed in the middle of the night, but Shane’s comment seems to displease him. “Someone needs to tell her that,” he mutters.
“Is Hex here?” I ask, not caring about my captor’s relationship drama.
“No,” Shane answers. “But we’re going to see him.”
I fucking knew it.
“What is his problem with me? I haven’t done anything wrong.”
“Hex doesn’t like anyone,” the guy across from me says. “Don’t take it personally.”
“None of this is your fault,” Shane tells me.
“If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s Killian’s. He should have known better,” the other guy murmurs.
My heart sinks.
Do they know that I know more than I should?
Killian’s words from before echo in my head.
If you tell one person, you’re putting them at risk. You tell three people, you’re putting yourself at risk.
I guess since he just told me, I’m the one getting drugged and dragged out of my bed in the middle of the night.
“Does Killian know about this?” I ask uncertainly.
“No.”
The guy I don’t know doesn’t elaborate, and while initially I felt less at risk once I realized who had taken me, I’m wondering if I should.
I didn’t feel like I was at risk walking down the basement stairs at the Rho Kappa house either, but I was.
I didn’t feel like I was at risk tangled up in Killian’s arms last night, but it turns out I was kissing and snuggling a remorseless killer.
And he didn’t act alone.
I know Hex was with him, but there were two other guys, too, and I don’t know who they were.
Maybe I think I’m a little safer with the devils I know, but…
Maybe I’m not.
Chapter Twenty-five
Brynn
The car slows to a stop, and I hear the engine turn off.
I guess we’re here.
Wherever here is.
The front door opens and closes first, and then our door opens.
I haven’t heard from the tall one in the leather gloves since I got in the car, but he speaks now, so he must have been driving.
“Is the machine ready?” he asks, climbing into the back of the car.
Shane speaks up, and I could hug him. “I really don’t think she needs to be drugged. She’s being perfectly cooperative, and she knows Hex is an asshole. If she rips off the blindfold and tries anything stupid, she knows she’s gonna pay for it—and she won’t like the price.”
I know that last bit is as much for me as them, but they don’t need to worry. I have no interest in making trouble, I just want to tell them whatever they need to hear so I can go home.
“All right,” the guy says. “Do you want to be the one to tell Hex you didn’t like his plan and you decided to do things your way instead?”
I take it by the brief pause Shane does not want to do that, but the other Blue Blood I haven’t met before tonight speaks up. “I will.”
Oh, thank God.
Apparently, his word holds enough weight, so it’s decided.
“All right,” the driver says, so either he isn’t that invested, or he trusts the guy who’s willing to tangle with Hex if he needs to.
I would really like to know their names to see if I’ve heard anything about either of them, but as with my previous kidnapping, no introductions are made.
Too bad.
“Help her down,” Shane says, and presumably the guy who isn’t Shane or the driver stands and comes over to take my hands and pull me up.
His grip is sure but impersonal, which makes sense given Shane said there’s a girl he likes and it sounded like it was in the early stages if she “needs to be told” she’s his. He’s definitely not afraid of Hex, while the other guys seem less inclined to tangle with him.
Killian and Aiden both seemed to agree that “king of the Blue Bloods” came down to Hex and Silvan, but Silvan had his own thing going on and wouldn’t be interested in the title. Killian also told me about what a good friend Silvan was, and while we’re certainly not friends, he did vouch for me just now, despite not really knowing me. Either he trusts Shane’s judgment about me, or he trusts Killian’s, but my hunch is…