Total pages in book: 266
Estimated words: 250787 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1254(@200wpm)___ 1003(@250wpm)___ 836(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 250787 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1254(@200wpm)___ 1003(@250wpm)___ 836(@300wpm)
The elevator opens, and I step off with Adam and walk down the hallway. After I ate, I brushed my teeth and got dressed. I didn’t have to say a word to him. He just knew that I needed to get up and move. So he let me lead him through Carnage and I find myself walking aimlessly. He follows a few steps behind, and I can hear him typing away on his cell. I don’t know what he does for a living or why he left the Spade brothers, but I’m not sure I even want to know. Lords are raised to rule, so I hope whatever life he finds is worth being on the run.
I come to a stop and spin around to face him.
“Charlotte,” he grunts, almost running into me since his attention was on his phone. “Need something?” Adam pockets his cell.
“What did Haidyn mean by you helped force me to marry him?” My voice is still rough from lack of conversation.
“You made a choice,” he says.
You always have a choice, doll face. “How did he do it?”
Adam steps forward and grabs my left hand. He runs his thumb over the sapphire ring while his green eyes search mine. Instead of answering my question, he asks his own. “Knowing what you know now, would you have married him?”
He means my father. Would I turn my husband over to the Lords if I had known that he was the Lord who killed my father? No. I can’t say that I would, so I bow my head, avoiding his stare and his question.
“So this isn’t about revenge?” Haidyn had asked me the first time he drugged me. I thought it was weird, but he meant revenge on my father. He was under the impression that I knew what he had done.
“Sometimes love needs a little push.” Adam drops my hand. “And when a Lord decides he wants you, he makes sure he gets you one way or another.”
My eyes go to his left hand, and I don’t see a ring on it, but looking closely, I can see a tan line where one has been. If he’s not going to give me any information about my own marriage, he’s for sure not going to tell me anything about his love life. So I change the subject.
“What is a guardian?” I ask since I have him alone and in conversation.
“If Haidyn dies, he has left another Spade brother in charge of you.”
I flinch at the thought of my husband dying. No. He wouldn’t do that to me. I know how the Lords work and how my mother was regifted to my stepdad. “You mean regifted me to someone else?”
He shakes his head. “Spade brothers are different. Therefore, our rules are different. A Lady is regifted to another Lord because she can’t be let out into the world. She has to stay within the society to keep our secret. Same happens to a Lady of a Spade brother. You will belong to Kash but not in the way you think. You won’t become his wife or his whore, but you will be his responsibility. You will belong to Haidyn until you die.”
My husband left me to a man who currently wants me dead. “Why didn’t he choose you?” I whisper.
“I wasn’t an option,” he answers, and I wonder if it has to do with him not living at Carnage.
Giving him my back, I continue down the hall and open the door to their office.
Conversations instantly come to a halt when we enter. Saint and Kashton both glare at me before looking at Adam. Ashtyn sits on Saint’s lap, and she gives me a big smile of encouragement. She’s become an ally that I never thought I’d have. But I guess in a world full of men, you have to have the women’s backs.
As much as I hate that she and Haidyn have a past, she’s not my competition. She’s a woman who loves a man and knows how far a woman is willing to go to keep him.
A man has his back to me, and as the room falls silent, he turns to see who entered. I take a step back when a set of familiar eyes meet mine. Adam places his hands on my shoulders, making me jump.
“It’s okay.” The guy lifts his hands out to his sides. “I’m here to help.”
Saint snorts. “How do we know we can trust you? You’re married to the enemy.”
Bill looks at him and sighs. “You just have to take my word for it.” His eyes meet mine, and he gives me a soft smile. “Haidyn did.”
I step forward. “You spoke to Haidyn?” Hope fills my chest, making my pulse pick up at the thought of seeing him again.
He nods. “I’ve been looking for him.” Running a hand over his head, he takes a deep breath.