Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81040 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81040 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
“Where is she?” I clipped out.
“My wife likes Trinity. You’re the closest friend I have. You’re family. Which is why when Madeline asked me why you’d gotten drunk at the club last night and I didn’t have an answer, I let her go get Trinity. You want to tell me what the fuck you were doing?”
My hand clenched at my side. “I will. But it’s better to show you. Just please tell me where she is.”
“I spoke with Madeline. Trinity isn’t mad at you. That’s not why she left,” Blaise said.
“Then, why the fuck did she leave me?” I growled.
“She thinks you want out.”
“Why the fuck would she think that? I was gone one night. One goddamn night. Where is she at, Blaise?”
He sighed. “She was determined to go. Madeline took her to the only person she knew who could keep her safe if she wasn’t with us.”
“FUCK!” I shouted. “Please tell me they just went to Devil’s. She’s not headed to Miami.” I was already stalking back to the garage door.
“Devil’s. Liam’s apartment.”
I had just fucking been there. Slamming the door behind me, I didn’t say anything to Gage or Levi. They’d let her leave. Sure, it was Maddy who had taken her, but still. They could have said something to make her stay.
What was this shit about her thinking I wanted out? Had she missed the fact that I was fucking obsessed with her? How was that not clear?
As I reached the Escalade, the garage door opened up. I didn’t look back at whichever fucker it was. Neither of them had stopped her. Once I had her back here, where she belonged, then I’d listen to their reasons and possibly forgive them.
“I told her you were gonna lose your shit. That the night at the party hadn’t changed your mind. But it’s time you fucking admit it to yourself and tell her that you love her. If she had known that, she wouldn’t have left.” Gage’s voice stopped me.
I gripped the handle on the Escalade. Was that what this was? I loved her? How the fuck would he know what love was?
I jerked open the door and turned to look at him before I got inside. “How do you know I’m in love? You don’t know what fucking love is. What you had wasn’t love. It was obsession and it had been toxic as fuck.”
But was he right? I would kill anyone who stood in my way of getting her back. The idea of her leaving me felt like my chest was being ripped open. The only time I felt fucking settled was when she was with me. Her smile fixed any shit that was wrong.
“Maybe it was toxic but if you feel anything like I did then I know how it fucking owns you. Makes you weak. Hurts like a bitch,” Gage said before stepping back inside and closing the door.
Fuck me. I’d fallen in love with Trinity.
Thirty-Four
Trinity
Maddy wouldn’t stay with me all day. I knew that, but I was thankful she was still here. I didn’t know these people, and right now, I didn’t want to be alone.
Had I made the wrong decision? Would Huck hate me for leaving? Was my heart going to always feel as if it had been destroyed?
I dropped my head into my hands and sighed. I missed him. If I had stayed even if he was done with me, at least I would still get to see him. But would I have been able to deal with that kind of agony … having him there, but not being able to touch him?
“If you want to come to my house, you can. Or Garrett’s house even,” Maddy said across from me.
I shook my head. Huck wouldn’t want that.
The door to the apartment we were in opened, and Liam, Maddy’s father, walked in with a frown on his face. Liam owned a strip club—or his motorcycle club did. They owned several, she’d said. Most in Miami. She had brought me to Devil’s, his club in Ocala, where Huck had been last night. Liam had an apartment above the club.
“We got company,” he said, looking at Maddy, then shifting his gaze to me. “And he’s real close to taking out some of my men. I told him to give me five minutes before he hurt someone.”
Maddy sighed, then reached over and took my hand. “I expected this. Even though I turned the tracker on your phone off, I figured he’d find you. They always do. You can’t run from the family.”
“Tracker?” I asked, confused.
Maddy nodded. “Yes. When I checked your phone, it had the same tracker on it that Blaise keeps on mine. Which means you’re important to Huck. Before you get mad, know that I’ve been in your shoes. And if it wasn’t for that tracker, I’d be dead.”