Bridge of Lies by Nana Malone

Author:Nana Malone [Malone, Nana]
Language: eng
Format: epub

Twenty-Four

Bridge

I was going to kill her. That was the only way to explain what the hell was going on right now. I was going to kill her. Put my hands around her throat and squeeze.

Because apparently, she would prefer to be dead rather than alive. Everything I had done to keep her safe, to keep her walking, to keep her moving, she’d disregarded. So I might as well kill her myself. It would certainly be satisfying.

"Run me through this again. You got a call from the asshole. You decided to take that call yourself instead of calling me. Or East or even Ben. You called the girls. The lot of you decided you were going to take care of this on your own. I know Nyla and Amelia can take care of themselves, but fucking hell, you girls literally told us nothing and decided to go meet this man who could be very dangerous, who could be working for Middleton, or actually be Middleton himself."

She winced and shifted uncomfortably in her seat. "Yes, that's accurate.”

The way she said it with such a clipped tone, as if she was daring to have an attitude about it, drove me insane. "You did the one thing I needed you to not do, and you have the nerve to be angry at me?”

"I'm not angry at you, Bridge. I just, I needed to do it, okay?"

"Uh, no. Not okay. I don't understand." I needed her to make me fucking understand.

"Look, I feel useless. I don't like having to be the protected, cosseted one. It sucks."

"You know full well why you're here."

"Yes, you keep telling me, Bridge. House, work, my routine, yep. I needed to do something more."

"Haven't we already established that you needing to do something is exactly what ended us all up in this mess?"

"Fine. You want to yell, keep yelling."

I could feel it, the loss of control pulling taught on the chain that kept me anchored. It was about to snap.

And sure enough, when she rolled her eyes, I lost it.

I leaned forward, trapping her in her chair with both of my arms on the armrests, so close our breaths commingled. I could kiss her, or I could literally savage her with my teeth. I was all jaws and fangs then. I was desperate to stop needing her.

"He hurt you," I muttered through clenched teeth.

"Not really. He could have killed me, but he didn't. Instead, he knocked me out to keep me from following him.”

"And fucking chained you to the door."

"It was a zip tie. And Jacob came right up thirty seconds later. I was fine. I was just unconscious."

"Unconscious." That word again as if it was an everyday occurrence.

I pushed myself away from her. If I stayed that close to her, I was going to kill her. I really was.

"Stay here. Guards are outside. I need to leave."

She sputtered as she blinked rapidly. "Where the fuck are you going?"

"You're asking me where I'm going?"

"Yeah, I am. Is that so unusual?"

"I find it laughable, not unusual.

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