His to Keep: A Billionaire Romance (His to Have Book 3) by Hayes Piper

Author:Hayes, Piper [Hayes, Piper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-23T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

CATHERINE

Maybe telling Blake that I took my father’s offer wasn’t the best way to start our ride back to the city, because the way he’s whipping his car around every bend in the road, I’m pretty sure he wants to kill me. And, to tell the truth, I’m afraid. Not of Blake but for Blake. I’m afraid he’s going to do something stupid because he’s angry. He doesn’t look at me. He just stares ahead and races his car through its gears as we get closer to the highway. I try to imagine what he’s thinking, but I’m sure his anger has little to do with thought. As far as he cares, I’ve betrayed him.

I reach over and place my hand on his thigh. “I’m sorry,” I tell him, “I didn’t know what else to do.”

“Do you have anything else you want to tell me?” he says. “At this point I’d believe just about anything.” He keeps one hand tight on the wheel and the other on the shifter.

“Just that I love you. Will you please tell me what you’re thinking?”

He doesn’t answer. He just speeds up, building momentum around every turn. By the time we get on the highway, I don’t know if he’ll say a word for the rest of the trip.

“I almost did it,” he says. It’s been half an hour since either of us said a word. I had been daydreaming all of the things I want to tell Blake, how I want to tell him that he’s being stupid and proud, and I’m only trying to help. “If you hadn’t screamed, I think I would have tried to kill him. I snapped. He was threatening Alex, and then he was threatening you, and I just lost it. I went after him. We fought over his gun, and then it went off. I had just pulled it from his hands when I heard you. I don’t know what I was going to do, but I know it wouldn’t have been good.”

“Are you mad at me?” I ask.

“About that? No,” he says.

“You said you wouldn’t hold it against me if I took a stake in the company. You said you’d understand what it meant to me,” I tell him. “I can be there for you now. I can have your back. We can do this together.”

“Can’t you see that I don’t want to do this together?” he says. “I love you more than anything, and I’m terrified of losing you. I’m afraid that the minute you step into that boardroom, I’m going to lose you. I’m afraid that your father is going to try to turn us against each other in any way he can. Even more than that, I’m afraid that Jacob is going to make it his mission to come after you, and that I won’t be able to stop him.”

“What if you just forgot about him? What if you just focused on helping Ben build a case. That’s how you’re getting a plea

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