A Twist of Love by Callie Bardot

Author:Callie Bardot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calinda B

Chapter 14

Gia had no idea she could go so long without talking, a simmering cauldron of emotion boiling inside her belly. She’d given Dante the deep freeze all the way to his luxury hotel. Iced him out after showering, dressing, and allowing him to escort her to the doctors. Said little, if anything, when the doctor x-rayed her, told her it was only a sprain and wrapped the ankle.

Marco wrapped it better.

She remained silent as the limousine sped them through the streets and highways of London toward Heathrow airport, sitting as far away from Kennedy and Dante as she could manage.

She didn’t know who she hated more—herself for getting into this mess, Dante for trying to get her out of it, or Marco, just because.

Sitting in a roomy leather recliner, a bottle of some bullshit chic-chic Fiji water by her side, she stared out the window of the private jet whisking her back to the states. Clouds were the only signs of life outside the window. Inside her body, she experienced fury one second, sorrow the next, and numbness the rest of the time. She burrowed deeper into a silk blanket the air steward had insisted upon her.

I wish I were back in the cave with the survival blanket.

Footsteps, presumably Dante’s, clomped along the plush carpet of the jet in her direction.

“We have to talk, G,” Dante said. “You can’t keep me out forever.”

Want to bet? She lifted her gaze to him and then resumed her cloud staring.

He settled into the cushy leather sofa lining the other side of the jet. “Come on, G. Talk to me. Marco exploited you. He exploited the contract. What he did violated his role as your sober companion. I know it, you know it, and he knows it big time. He’s apologized profusely, but it doesn’t make a difference. What’s done is done.”

Words formed in her throat, but she swallowed them away.

“Gia. I’m only trying to protect you. What he did was wrong, no doubt about it.” Dante sounded far, far away, in another Universe, perhaps.

When she still didn’t speak, he went for reasonableness. “Look, I get it. The guy’s handsome. He’s ripped. He’s a former Marine, for God’s sake. You’d have to be numb to not be taken in by him. And it sounds like you got yourself in a scary situation and one thing led to the next. I get it.”

She stayed mute.

He stopped speaking, too, allowing a screaming silence to envelop them. After a time, he said, “We’ll find you someone else to work with. Someone in the states. As it happened, it worked out to have done the intervention with Marco here in London. We had another recovery center arranged, but Marco said he needed to get you into recovery, pronto. He was visiting friends in London. That’s not where he lives. He was stationed at a military base near there while in the Marines.”

She wanted to ask where he lived, realizing she knew very little about him. And here I went for the hearts and roses connection when I know nothing about the man.

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