Blake, Abby - Traitor [Altered Destinies 6] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)

Author:Abby Blake [Blake, Abby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-05T14:57:56+00:00

Chapter Seven

Three days later they were still running from an unknown enemy. Sandra ground her teeth in frustration. In reality she was now considered a criminal. Regardless of the fact that Darrick and Davin had somehow managed to escape supposedly inescapable holding cells, she was the one who’d led them out of the complex and into her vehicle.

Sandra had kept a tight rein on her telepathic skills and had managed to avoid any contact with her family. She was sure her brothers and Dana would be worried, but any contact she had with them now would put them in a very bad position.

“Come here, honey,” Davin said as he patted the space on the bed beside him. They’d stayed on the move, not stopping for more than a single night at each hotel. This one was old but thankfully seemed better maintained than the last.

Darrick had remained hostile, his feelings of betrayal obvious to Sandra’s growing empathic ability. She wasn’t sure when she’d become able to read them as easily as she read other people’s emotions, but it seemed that whatever the professor had done to make them able to hide from empaths was either wearing off or Sandra was adapting to it.

She crawled onto the bed beside Davin and gratefully curled into his embrace. She hadn’t felt this lost since her ex had beaten her to a bloody pulp and left her locked in their small bathroom for several days. It had been the most humiliating and degrading experience of her life, and she’d vowed never to give anyone that sort of power over her again.

Hell, even the treatment she’d received at the professor’s hands had paled in comparison to what a man she’d loved had done to her years before.

“Do you want to talk about it?”

“No,” she said with a grimace as she realized that Davin seemed to be able to find his way through her telepathic block. Not even Dana had managed to do that. Well, not yet. Dana was nothing if not stubborn.

Davin obviously wasn’t in the mood to let it go. “Why did you let him treat you like that?”

She shrugged, unable to reconcile her actions of the past with the woman she was now. It seemed almost incomprehensible that she’d stayed with the man even after that day. Her sense of self-worth had been so low at the time that she actually remembered believing she somehow deserved being treated in such an awful way.

“I don’t know,” she answered honestly. “When Pete and John realized what was happening, they stepped in and took me away.” She closed her eyes against the tears that threatened to fall. “I was so angry at their interference at the time. But now I know I owe them so much.” Sandra wiped at her eyes, embarrassed by her loss of control.

“Your brothers did the right thing,” Davin said, nodding against her head. “You’re such a strong person now. It’s hard to imagine you ever being so low in confidence.”

Sandra shrugged, not really sure what to say next.

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