Protecting a Steele by Elizabeth Knox

Author:Elizabeth Knox [Knox, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knox Publishing
Published: 2019-08-30T16:00:00+00:00

18

Before you get attached to anyone, be prepared if they leave

~ Unknown

Madigan

As much as I haven’t wanted to avoid Reggie, I have been. My mind is running rampant with thoughts of regret. Constantly thinking about why I was honest. Why didn’t I tell him no or just tell him now wasn’t the time, that we didn’t know each other? Ugh, I have no clue! Although, somehow, I was able to get a decent bit of sleep last night. It’s well past four in the afternoon and I’ve already gotten ready for dinner with Christian and Selena.

The sound of determined footsteps coming up the stairs makes me suck in a deep breath. My door is thrown open and I see Reggie with the phone. “Stall them, please. Have they heard us? Okay. I’ll call you back in five minutes.” He throws the phone on my bed and glares at me.

“Did you bring anything with you that Vinny gave you?”

“Huh? What?”

“There’s someone at the gate named Vinny, so I’ll ask you again, did that fuck give you anything and were you dumb enough to bring it with you?”

I’m taken aback with how Reggie’s just spoken to me, cocking my head back in disgust. “No, I don’t think so.” I turn around, trying to think. I only brought the necessities, including my ID, passport, and social security card. I left the car in South Carolina . . . and that’s when it hits me. The second I glance in the mirror I see the diamond earrings he bought me. Immediately, I take them off, handing them to Reggie.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t think that—”

“It’s fine. C’mon, we need to leave now. Carlos is heading toward the gate and going to throw them off our trail.” Reggie takes my hand in his, tossing the earrings onto the bed, grabs his phone and we rush down the stairwell and go out the back door.

“Why didn’t you smash them?”

“Because the moment I do that, they know we’re onto them. Right now, they don’t have a clue and by the time they realize it, you and I will be in the city.”

He opens the back gate to my fenced in yard and shuts it behind me, taking us through a wooded runners trail. “Why aren’t we going to one of my brothers?” Naturally, that would be the place to go.

“Because if they don’t already know whose name is on the deed of the house, they will soon, and going to your brothers is the first thing they’ll do. We need to make sure they don’t already have eyes on all three of them, and in the meantime, I need to get you somewhere safe. I wasn’t expecting this shit.”

Reggie jerks me to the left and we walk off the trail into the woods. He’s careful to keep all of the tree limbs and twigs out of my way but misses a cobweb and I get a spider to the face, shrieking bloody murder. Immediately, he covers his hand over my mouth and flings the thing off me.

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