No Going Back (Sawyer Brooks) by T.R. Ragan

Author:T.R. Ragan [Ragan, T.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542093927
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2021-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

That night, Harper tossed and turned in bed. The clock on her nightstand told her it was two in the morning. She couldn’t stop thinking about Eddie Carter. He was the first of their targets to admit to wrongdoing. The Crew’s mission was to teach abusers a lesson—show them what it felt like to have no control over a situation and what might happen to them. Eddie Carter was remorseful. His regret seemed genuine. Yes, he deserved to be punished. But it was the look she’d seen on Cleo’s face that worried her and kept her awake. The clenched fists when she continuously pounded his chest. The kicking and yelling as her anger turned violent. It seemed to Harper that Cleo had PTSD. In that moment of rage, Cleo seemed to be reliving the horror of what had happened the night at the fraternity house. It was as if Cleo suddenly had been thrust into survival mode, determined to win at all costs.

Harper knew the effects firsthand, how childhood trauma liked to rear its head when least expected. There were times when the anger would turn quickly to rage, and she would feel the urge to scream and kick something.

She sucked in a breath and closed her eyes, determined to go to sleep and push all thoughts of Eddie Carter away. She could drive to the warehouse first thing in the morning and check on Cleo and Eddie then.

The next ten minutes ticked by slowly.

Too slowly.

She opened her eyes and eased her way quietly off the bed so as not to wake Nate. Blindly, she searched for clothes and a pair of shoes before exiting her bedroom. She stepped into her jeans, then put on the T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a sweater from the coat hook in the entryway, then headed for the kitchen, where she found her purse and snuck out the door.

Less than thirty minutes later, she pulled up next to the warehouse and sat in silence as she took in her surroundings, taking note that Cleo’s car was gone.

It was in that moment that Harper realized she hadn’t thought this through. What was her plan? On the drive here, she’d imagined talking to Cleo and making sure Eddie Carter was okay. Now she found herself wishing she’d brought food and water and bandages.

She continued to stare through the windshield into the dark.

Maybe she would do the unthinkable and let him go. The rest of The Crew would be furious with her. But only if they found out.

Her frustration mounted. What was she supposed to do? She couldn’t simply let the man bleed to death.

You’re a hypocrite, an inner voice murmured in her ear.

She disagreed. Psycho was the one who had cut off Brad Vicente’s dick. Besides, the man was alive, in prison where he belonged. And Myles Davenport would have been set free eventually. Nobody knew he would suffer a heart attack and die. He was young. What were the odds? And then there was Otto Radley, whom Harper had shot in self-defense.

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