Draw Play: the Originals by Jami Davenport

Author:Jami Davenport [Davenport, Jami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cedrona Enterprises

Mac woke from a sound sleep to someone pounding on her front door. She sprang up from the bed, heart in her throat, not even bothering with a bathrobe over her nightshirt. Middle-of-the-night news was never good.

She ran for the door, stubbing her toe on the coffee table in the process and hopping the rest of the way on one foot. Throwing open the door, she fully expected her father in some state of insanity, but the muscular blond man standing on her porch was definitely not her father.

“Bruiser?”

One corner of his mouth tipped up, and he cocked his head sideways. “Were you expecting someone else? You’re killing my ego, darlin’.” He clutched his hands to his chest, and Mac laughed in spite of herself.

“Uh, no, I just wasn’t expecting you.” Her heart did a cartwheel up and down her spine.

“Can I come in?” Bruiser smiled again, not so cocky this time. His apparent uncertainty was winning her over, sucker that she was.

“Uh, I don’t think this is a good idea.” She knew how this would end if she let him in the door.

“I just spent the last hour at the bar where Trudy works.”

“You did? Did she say anything?”

“Let me in. I don’t want to talk about it out here.” He glanced around as if expecting paparazzi hiding in the bushes.

Mac let him in and bolted the door. Bruiser sat on the couch and she sat next to him, too anxious about possible news to worry about them sitting too close.

“What did she say?”

Bruiser took her hands and squeezed them. “Mac, I— Are you sure you want to hear this?”

“Are you kidding? I’ve been waiting three years to hear this.” Mac leaned forward, gripping his hands like a lifeline.

Bruiser heaved a deep sigh. “I asked her what happened to your brother. She said you’ll never find him.”

Even though she’d suspected as much, had prepared herself for bad news for the past three years, hearing the actual words relayed from someone with probable insider knowledge made her stomach drop to the basement of her house. “Did she say how she knew that?”

“I asked if she knew something or if she was speculating. She said a little of both.”

“That’s the most we’ve ever gotten out of her.” Mac stared at their hands with fingers intertwined together.

“Are you okay?” The genuine concern in his voice almost undid her.

Mac nodded, not trusting her voice.

“I can get more information depending on how far I’m willing to go.”

Mac frowned and held his hands tighter. “It’s not worth it. Don’t compromise yourself.”

“Not worth it to finally find out what really happened to Will? Not worth it to make Sonja pay? Not worth it to set you free of your guilt and give you back your life and your father his peace of mind?”

Mac considered his words for a moment, and her answer surprised her. “To me, it’s not. I can’t ask you to compromise your integrity.”

He looked shocked, then pleased. “You think I have integrity?”

“I know you do.

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