Atticus: Secret Lies: Adair Empire Book 4 by Donn KL

Author:Donn, KL
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KL Writes
Published: 2018-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

Catalina

I’ve never been so scared in my life as I was when I heard the explosion. Seeing Atticus lying on the ground bloody and confused. I swear my heart stopped beating. I hate him, and I love him.

I don’t know how or when it happened, but he’s mine, and if something happens to him, I’m not sure I could go on living. He’s become as essential to my life as breathing.

Assessing his injuries, I know it’s by the grace of God that they aren’t worse. Or haven’t hit any vital veins or arteries. Especially the shrapnel in his neck. It’s only about half a dozen fragments, but enough that he’s going to feel them coming out.

Noticing he’s drunk half the bottle of whiskey, I know he’s about as ready as either of us will be for me to sew up his cheek.

“Here we go,” I murmur, and he clutches the edge of the couch.

I bite my tongue with the first poke through his flesh. His handsome face is now one of gruesome pain. He doesn’t move or make a sound as I continue to thread ten stitches in his face.

“I had to stitch the back of my calf once.” I need to distract us both; I can see him beginning to sway the further I go along. This story will likely piss him off enough to get his adrenaline pumping.

“What happened?”

“I was chopping wood–“

“Jesus Christ.”

“Hey, it wasn’t my fault. Someone had set a bear trap, and it caught East’s leg. His howling distracted me, and when I turned, I lost my footing, dropped the ax and fell on my ass.” I can laugh about it now. He looks like he’d like to tan my hide. “When the ax dropped, it landed at a weird angle, and my calf slid on it enough to split the skin.

“You ever touch that ax again, I’ll tie your hands behind your back and fuck you so hard you won’t walk straight for a month.” His threat does the opposite of what he likely wants. My core pulses, and my pussy throbs from the menace in his tone.

His gaze glistens as he sees my reaction. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”

I choose not to answer him. I know it’ll be used against me as soon as he can. “Needless to say, we both had a trip to town after that.”

Growling by the front door stops further conversation as Atticus stands just as I tie off the last stitch. “Down, behind the couch, now.” The rage in his voice prompts me to do as he says. No way do I want that aimed at me.

I lay on the floor, listening, waiting as Atticus cocks the rifle and takes aim at the door. “It’s me, it’s Charles!” is yelled, and I breathe a sigh of relief.

“What the fuck are you doing here?” Atticus roars but doesn’t grant the man entry.

“I found him.”

“Yeah, so did we.”

“I know where he’s staying. He was here. I saw him before he blew the truck, but he didn’t see me.

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