Cracked Sapphire by Jane Blythe

Author:Jane Blythe [Blythe, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jane Blythe
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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11:52 P.M.

The memories were jumbled inside her head.

Not because she had been drugged or beaten or anything, but because her brain simply didn’t want her to remember.

At first, she hadn’t. When she’d woken inside that barn ten years ago, she hadn’t remembered it, nor had she when she’d been rescued and gone to live with her aunt and uncle. But bit by bit over time, those memories had slowly started resurfacing.

Usually, she shoved them back down, but tonight, she hadn’t been able to do that.

Until Gideon had somehow managed to calm her down.

Sapphire had him to thank for the fact that she was still alive. If he hadn’t gone looking for her and happened to stumble upon them in the alley, Mason Wharf would have raped and killed her.

She had no doubt about that.

The man had a violent temper, and she had set it off by accusing him of being the killer. At least now, he would be thrown in prison, taken off the streets where he could never hurt another person, and hopefully, he would see that he had nothing to lose by telling them where Thea Brody was and the girl could be rescued and reunited with her terrified family.

That was all thanks to Gideon.

Sapphire wasn’t even pretending anymore that she didn’t like the man—not to anyone else and definitely not to herself. It wasn’t just that he had saved her life. It was that he had been honest with her. Instead of being afraid of upsetting her, he had told her exactly what his thought processes had been when he had rethought his desires to kiss her.

She respected that so much.

Being a victim meant that people often treated you with kid gloves. Her aunt and uncle had done it all the time when she first went to live with them. They never wanted to do anything to upset her because they thought that if they did, she might fall apart. That was why she liked being around her sisters. Since they had all lived through similar experiences, they didn’t do that to one another. It was also probably why she acted so tough and standoffish at work, having people not like her was so much easier than having them treat her like a china doll that might crack into a million pieces if they said or did the wrong thing.

But Gideon had just talked to her. Told her what was going on inside his head. He hadn’t been afraid that she would break.

“Here’s some ice.” Amethyst knocked at her bedroom door and came in.

“Thanks.” Sapphire shifted slightly against her pillows, wincing at the resulting stab of pain in her chest and stomach.

“Are you sure you shouldn’t have spent the night in the hospital?” her sister asked, handing her the ice pack which she gingerly placed against her bruised ribs.

“Positive. This is where I can relax, not there.” It was no surprise that being in the hospital made her think of the days immediately following her rescue that she had spent in a hospital.

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