Evolution- Awakening by Hope Anika

Author:Hope Anika [Anika, Hope]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hope Anika
Published: 2019-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

-12-

He can’t fucking have you, baby. That’s the only thing I’ll promise you.

Wanda was not a violent person. In spite of Mr. Sparky and the self-defense maneuvers Ash had taught her, drawing blood was not instinctive. She was, at heart, a diplomat. She believed in negotiation and compromise.

That did not, however, make her a mark. No matter what Wylie thought.

Not that he didn’t mean what he said. There was no doubting that punishing, possessive kiss that had sent heat flooding through her veins, or the depth of the anger that flared in his dark blue gaze when she’d shared Ajmil’s identity and the abbreviated tale of her betrothal.

But Wylie meaning well, and Wylie acting, were two very different things, and they rarely happened simultaneously. So while Wanda knew his outrage was very real, she also knew it was very meaningless.

Which both infuriated and wounded her—neither of which did her any good at all. Because even now she couldn’t rely on him. Even now, he’d disappeared into this house of ill repute, and even if he was at a table instead of in a bed—he’d left them alone.

For nearly three hours.

The breakfast Henri had brought up was long gone, and the sun was climbing higher in the sky, and there was nothing to do but wait.

Wait and worry.

About Eva, who seemed far too serene for someone being hunted by brutal, relentless men intent on doing her bodily harm. About who those men were and what their next move was—because Wanda really, really didn’t want to spend another night at The Butterfly—and just how, exactly, they were supposed to get to Charlie’s cabin.

About Ajmil and the utter implosion of the life she’d so painstakingly built for herself. And regardless of Wylie’s words—you’re one of us, we won’t give you up—she would have to run. Because nothing would stop Devansh Patail from hunting her to the ends of the earth.

Even if Wylie was the kind of man to fight for her, he wouldn’t win. He would only get himself killed.

Wanda supposed it was good that he was fickle and unreliable. Good for him, anyway.

“That man outside the elevator last night,” Eva said suddenly. “He frightened you.”

Wanda closed her laptop. Wylie had finally talked to Ash the previous night utilizing Charlie’s old CB, but they still didn’t have any answers about the men in black. She’d considered logging on remotely to the Firm’s server and poking around, but then decided that might be a moronic move and had instead gone looking into the men in black. While she hadn’t expected anything from a search engine, she had located several mentions of them on social media—not unexpected, considering their MO. Bullish, brutal and unconcerned by witnesses. That they looked like government-issued henchmen only made them more of a spectacle, and someone had uploaded a blurry video of their confrontation in front of the Fountains of Bellagio.

She hadn’t found any answers, but it was worth following.

“Wanda,” Eva said, a gentle probe accompanied by a look of such solemn reproof, it made Wanda uneasy.

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