Protect Her by Chloe Fischer

Author:Chloe Fischer [Fischer, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chloe Fischer
Published: 2017-10-28T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

As Dallas grabbed her hand and led her over to the couch, he tried to focus on what was important here. The backpack. The drug dealer. The dead bodies piling up around them.

But for some reason he could not stop thinking about her.

Earlier at his apartment, when she first slipped through his grasp, he had been furious. At the time he thought that anger was directed at her, for putting him in that situation, but really he knew the anger was directed at himself, for letting Cleo get herself into trouble. When he realized this, he assumed he felt that way because he had let Mark down.

But now... now he wasn't so sure. When he had been fighting that giant, a gun pointed at his head and seconds away from being shot and killed, he hadn’t been concerned for his own life. He had been more concerned about what would happen to Cleo if he died. And when she had saved him by distracting the goon, but was thrown against the wall in the process, he could feel a caged beast inside of him roar to life – pure anger swept through him and drove him hard, until the thug was dead and he could make sure that Cleo was safe.

And then finally, as she stitched him up and listened to his story, he realized that all these feelings he had weren't that of an older brother. He had spent such a long time wallowing in his grief, convincing himself that his heart was broken, that he hadn't even realized it had healed. Time really does heal all wounds, Dallas thought to himself.

The story he had told her was one he hadn't told anyone before, not even Mark. He had kept it bottled up inside of him, thinking that was the best way to heal. But as he told her what had happened, he could literally feel the weight of the past falling off him.

“So what’s in the bag, Cleo?” Dallas asked.

Cleo, who had just taken a seat on the couch next to Dallas, reached behind her and grabbed the backpack. She passed it to him, and said, “Here. Go ahead and look.”

Dallas unzipped the bag and slowly looked inside. He glanced up at Cleo quickly, disgust in his eyes. “So, it really is about drugs?” he sneered. “I can’t believe you’d let your brother risk his life to help you—“

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