Revenge Bound by Heidi Joy Tretheway

Author:Heidi Joy Tretheway [Tretheway, Heidi Joy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult contemporary romance, Romantic suspense
Publisher: Heidi Joy Tretheway
Published: 2014-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 27: JAYCE

“Bedroom. Now.”

I follow her lithe, nearly naked body with an ass I want to sink my teeth into to the back of her apartment. She pushes open her bedroom door and freezes. I nearly run into her.

I scan the room. Nothing seems out of place and her bed is neatly made.

She turns to me, a look of panic and horror on her face. I pull her to my chest and her skin is clammy, her breath coming in sharp, desperate pants.

“Tell me what’s wrong. Please, Violet.” God, what did I do? Did I fuck this up already?

I came over here with every intention of just getting her to talk to Gus tomorrow, or just getting her to talk to me, and somehow it turned into her naked and kneeling. I’m either a total asshole or the luckiest bastard anywhere.

I hold her tighter, my thick arms squeezing her frail shoulders.

“My—my bag.” She points to a square, gray camera bag on the floor, like the one I thought she left at the café after the run-in with the stalker. “It’s here.”

I want to believe it simply turned up at the café’s lost and found. “He brought it back?” We both know I don’t mean Neil.

Violet nods against my chest.

“Get dressed. You’re not safe here.”

She opens her mouth to protest but shock wins. I push open her closet, scan the thin space beneath her bed, and check Neil’s room and the bathroom to be sure this guy isn’t lying in wait.

There’s nothing.

I throw my clothes back on in the living room, dial the car service, and go back to Violet’s room, where she’s sitting on her bed, still undressed and staring at the camera bag. I pick it up as if it’s infected, holding the strap away from my body, and I worry that there might be more surprises lurking inside.

“Can you pack some more clothes?” I ask gently. “Maybe for a week or so? I don’t want you to have to come back here unless … we’re clear.”

Mute, she dresses and then grabs a small stack of clothes. She carries them to the living room, stuffing them in the backpack she had when she arrived at her apartment.

There’s no tears, and that freaks me out worse than when she’d been crying. In the car, I open my palm. “Give me your phone.”

She obeys.

I dial Neil.

“Violet? You home? Your bouncer guy showed up at work and was a total jackass.”

“Jackass speaking, Neil.”

“Why are you calling me from Violet’s phone? Where is she?”

“She’s right next to me, but she’s pretty shaken up. I need you to tell me if you found her camera bag.”

“The big gray one? She said she lost it at the café.”

I let out a breath to ease the tension in my voice. “That’s not the question, Neil. I need to know if you found it, or if someone brought it back to you, and if you put it in her room.”

“Haven’t seen it, sorry.” His dismissal gets my hackles up.

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