Auctioned by Cara Dee

Author:Cara Dee [Dee, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-27T18:30:00+00:00

Rather than heading for the dungeon after dinner, Gray was ushered back to their stateroom. He could sense something was wrong; Darius was tense, his jaw was set, and his grip on Gray’s arm was tighter than usual.

For once, Gray stayed level. His determination hadn’t faded, and he concentrated on his morbid fantasies of how to make the guards suffer.

As soon as the door was locked behind them, Darius cut straight to it. “We have a problem.”

Gray folded his arms over his chest and pushed past the anxiousness. “What is it?”

“Valerie allowed Linus’s buyer to leave earlier.” Darius loosened his tie in short, impatient tugs, and his jaw ticked. “They’re all about pleasing their esteemed fuckhead guests, so she pulled some strings so he could be taken to another auction.” He threw the tie at the desk before he pinched the bridge of his nose. Gray steeled himself. “He wasn’t alone. Jackie and his buyer were taken to the same auction.”

Gray’s arms fell to his sides. The defeat threatened to pull him under again, and he had to sit down on the edge of the bed and take deep breaths. It’s not the end of the world. When we get free, we can find Jackie. We’ll bring him home too. God, no one would believe that, much less Gray. At the same time, he couldn’t believe it was over. He couldn’t believe Jackie was lost.

He’d barely seen Jackie during this monstrous trip. Darius had mentioned that Jackie’s buyer wasn’t sadistic, that he was “just” a sick, lonely pervert. While there were hundreds of ways to break someone, Gray prayed the lack of violence would help Jackie survive longer. Until they could do something. Because there had to be something.

“Any other shitty news?” he asked dully.

“Unfortunately.” Darius slumped down next to Gray and scrubbed at his face. He’d never looked so tired, and it tugged at Gray. It rattled him too. It wasn’t okay. Darius was a strong motherfucker. Everyone was counting on him. “They left on the yacht’s tender along with three guards. Before dinner, three new guards showed up in another boat. Which means there are three new faces to worry about.”

Gray’s forehead creased. So there’d been…like, a guard change. “Does that mean problems for us? It’s the same number.”

“They’ll be more alert.” Darius planted his elbows on his knees and his chin on his linked knuckles. “They can’t anticipate our moves or needs yet, so they’ll be extra attentive—not to mention trigger-happy. Moreover, I don’t know shit about them. I don’t know whether they’re hotheaded or calculating.”

Okay, that was…problematic. Shit, shit, shit. No, where was the menacing fuck who was itching to plan revenge? Gray needed him back. They had Jonas! Jonas was gonna help out a lot. Cole was standing by too. They weren’t alone. This had to work.

Gray swallowed hard and ran a hand through his hair. “Then we gotta come up with something. I can’t afford to crash again. I wanna be useful.” He shifted a little and wrapped his hands around Darius’s bicep.

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