A Vow To Chase: Lies And Truths Trilogy Book 3 by Charlotte E Hart

Author:Charlotte E Hart [Hart, Charlotte E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Ally

A commotion wakes me. Shouting and fighting.

I bolt upright in the bed and search for the sound, trying to hear Brett or Brandon. It’s not them. It's Malachi’s voice. Crashing echoes around the place, something shattering on hard floors. I get out of bed and grab a robe, wrapping it around me as I bound out of the door and rush across the landing area. The sight of a man I don’t know sprawled out on the floor at the bottom of the stairs, his face bloodied and battered, does not fill me with happiness.

“Go!” Malachi’s voice shouts. “Die somewhere else.” The man crawls past some of the security team, pulls himself upright on a table. “I doubt I have to insist this stays quiet, but just in case, don’t be fucking stupid, Damien. For now, this is over. Don’t ever take anything that belongs to me again.”

I pad softly, trying to look over the bannister. Malachi’s off to the side of the stairs, wearing the same pair of jeans and t-shirt as he wore last night. A maid walks past him to the main entrance and opens it for whoever Damien is. It's then that I see both Brett and Brandon follow him from the other side of the room, Brandon looking about ready to kill.

One glance at their knuckles and I know exactly what’s been going on.

This is the man Malachi told me about last night.

Mothering takes over, regardless of whatever this man did to me.

I move until I’m in the middle of the staircase, calling both their names. They look up. I shake my head. “No more.” Brandon snarls, but at least Brett stays focused on me. “But don’t let him leave.”

My fingers run through my hair, as I make my way down to them and tighten my robe. I don’t know what I want to do, or say, but I can’t, or won’t, just let him walk away without looking him in the eye. I get closer, watch as he tries not to look at me. He should. If Malachi’s right, and this is the man that caused me to be taken, he should, at the very least, have the fucking mettle to look me in the face.

Brandon blocks the doorway, and Malachi comes out of the wings behind me. I look at him over my shoulder, knowing, without a shadow of a doubt, that not one thing will happen to me while I’m under his watch unless it comes from him. The idea of that stretches my lips into a smile. A near sadistic one maybe, but it’s built from pain and anger and years of looking after myself.

Now, I don’t have to do that alone.

Neither does he.

“You look tired, baby,” falls out of me. He stares at me, tilts his head about, smirks. “Why don’t you go and sleep.” I walk onwards until I’m in front of Damien, trying to imprint every cut, every bruise, every torn and tattered layer of clothing into my memory.

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