Pleasure Vows by Khloe Summers

Author:Khloe Summers [Summers, Khloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summer to Winter Publishing
Published: 2020-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Hannah

If I’d been asleep for three days, I’d have believed it. My mouth was so dry my tongue would barely move. I couldn’t remember much of what had happened the night before, just that I was extremely tired. Though, now after what felt like weeks in bed, I was still exhausted. Lifting the covers, I sat at the edge of the mattress, letting the blood redistribute so I didn’t feel dizzy when I stood. I could hear Kevin in the kitchen, dishes moving in quiet rhythm, as the scent of fresh tea made its way throughout the house.

The more I moved, the more my brain came back to life, and suddenly Matteo was all I could think of. I ran down the hall and into the kitchen. “Matteo! Did you call him? I need the phone, we have to tell him that the Kings Ranch people are going to kill him, that they know he’s alive.”

I must have looked crazy because Kevin stood still without movement for a long moment before finally opening his mouth. “Are you okay? Did you have a bad dream?” He walked towards my shaking body and pulled me into his chest.

I conceded, collapsing against his strength. “What? How long have I been asleep?”

“It’s only 11 AM. You had a panic attack yesterday. I called a doctor. You just need to eat, sleep, and rehydrate.”

I pulled away from Kevin’s chest and looked straight up into his steely gray eyes. “Have you talked to Matteo? I must have dreamt it… but it felt so real.”

“I went to see him this morning. He’s fine. He was going to get Jake. They are on their way to Europe. He’s taking the jet.”

“What? Why? Didn’t he want to say goodbye, or tell me he was going? He promised he would tell me when he left!” Anger filled the spaces in my heart where worry had been.

Kevin shifted away from me, busying himself with pouring tea and buttering bagels. “He knew you needed your rest. I just wanted to update him on the basement cameras.”

I sat at the kitchen counter and took a small bite of the cinnamon bagel Kevin pushed towards me. “Good! So, you got into the cameras?”

He sliced another bagel and popped it into the toaster. “No. It turns out Kings Ranch has videos of young girls on their computers and I don’t want to be wrapped up in that kind of stuff. So, I let Mat—”

“How is he going to help Jake if he doesn’t have access to the basement?”

Kevin stopped and squinted his eyes as though I were missing a piece to the puzzle. “I don’t know.” He buttered the other half of his bagel. “Has it crossed your mind that Matteo only cares about himself? That he’s not ‘helping’ Jake, that he’s using him to get to Kings Ranch? I mean, he was going on this ‘mission’ before Jake showed up.”

Fury bubbled beneath my skin. I ignored it and took a sip of tea.

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