Blade (Archer's Creek Book 3) by Gemma Weir

Author:Gemma Weir [Weir, Gemma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Archer’s Creek: Book Three
Publisher: Gemma Weir
Published: 2018-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

The car ride back to Nikki’s house is silent. She seems calm and almost resolved, like confronting that house and that room silenced the demons that had been tormenting her and now she’d found peace, at least for the moment.

I’m not calm. I want to dig up her parents’ bodies and kill them all over again. Her fucking father had watched while she was raped. Worse, he’d got off on someone raping her. What kind of human being gets their kicks watching someone getting violated, while she was unconscious and unable to fight back?

My fingers itch with the need to punch something. I wish I’d killed him. I wish I’d been the one to hold a gun to his head and pull the trigger. But a quick death would have been too good for that fucking bastard. I’d have dragged it out, made it long and painful, made him know that his death was payback for treating his daughters the way he had.

I want to reach out and take her hand. She doesn’t need my support, but I want to give it to her anyway. I want to hold her in my arms and shelter her, but Nikki doesn’t need to be sheltered or protected. She isn’t sweet and innocent like Dove. Nikki is a whirlwind, a force to be reckoned with. She doesn’t need sympathy and kid gloves. She’s like me, she needs action and redemption.

Pulling up outside her house, I kill the engine, pull her keys from the ignition and climb out, then I walk around to her side just as she opens her door and exits. I start to reach for her and then think better of it. Instead I walk to her front door and use her keys to open it for her.

Watching me curiously, she blinks at me, surprised, and then walks past me and into her house. I follow behind her, closing the front door and heading toward the back of the house and her kitchen.

“Beer?” she asks, pulling open the refrigerator and taking out two bottles.

Nodding, I take the beer from her outstretched hand and twist the top off. She mimics my actions, lifting the bottle to her lips and swallowing almost half of it at once. I watch as she lowers the bottle, then wipes her lips with the back of her hand. When her eyes fall to me there’s a hint of something in her depths. Desperation perhaps?

“What’s your name?” she asks suddenly, shattering the silence.

After everything she’s told me today, I feel like I should be making sure she’s okay, that her past hasn’t fucked her up beyond redemption. But Nikki’s not weak and she obviously hasn’t let the rape ruin her life. Right then I decide that this woman is amazing, so strong and so fucking resilient. So I do what feels natural with my Duchess, I bait her. “Blade,” I reply with a grin.

“I’m not calling you Blade. It’s the most ridiculous nickname for a grown man.”

“That’s all I’ve been called for the last ten years,” I offer with a smirk.

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