Ruin Me (Wreck & Ruin Book 1) by Scarlett Finn

Author:Scarlett Finn [Finn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-02T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY

The ice had been delivered by Delray. Tulsi had bathed herself in freezing water while Svana iced her face again. The early intervention should stop a lot of the swelling, but there would be bruising, that was inevitable.

Once the women were both cleaned up and the bathroom was spotless, they only had to wait a few minutes for their release. Baines had appeared with a halter-neck dress for her. At first, she hadn’t understood why it was necessary for her to be in a dress or one that tied behind her neck.

The reason became clear as soon as she finished tying. Baines told her to turn around and fastened the loose zip-tie around her wrist, locking both of her hands at her lower back in makeshift cuffs… Exactly what Wreck, Rowdy, and Kieran had endured from Teal’s apartment onward.

A sweater, that wasn’t hers because it was too big and male, was hooked over her shoulders to conceal her cuffed hands. After that they were taken down in the elevator and bundled into the back of the car waiting for them in a loading bay.

She didn’t see any other vehicles and wondered where Wreck had ended up. It could be that only she and Svana were being taken to Merchant. The others could’ve been taken on other jobs or to other places. Wreck had proved himself, Rowdy had too, through his friend. The answers Baines couldn’t get from Putnam had been extracted by Wreck. He needed Rowdy to watch his back, so both had gone with Baines’ crew to retrieve Svana and been successful.

Most of the journey was just tense and uncomfortable. Not only because she had her hands at her back, keeping her from relaxing, but because Coombs was driving. The man she’d “killed” had been his buddy. Once in a while, she caught sight of him glaring at her in the mirror. Baines might follow orders, Merchant might issue her with undisclosed powers, but she would have to endure some kind of payback from the man in the driver’s seat.

Little was said throughout the journey. Tulsi and Svana sat at opposite ends of the back seat while Coombs and Delray rode up front. They drove for the rest of the night and all through the day. Although Coombs pulled into the drive-thru, Tulsi wasn’t offered food. Svana snuck her a couple of fries, but even that wasn’t easy without her hands.

Without her seatbelt, she felt unsafe. She didn’t ask Svana to do it for her, though she could have. After the food, Svana had poured the ice from her drink into a napkin and used it for Tulsi’s face. The woman was sweet… even in spite of the horrors that she had endured.

Blocking out Coombs’ bullshit and her concern for Wreck, Tulsi tried to sleep. She must have dozed off at some point because Svana shook her to wake her up.

“We stopped,” Svana hissed across the backseat.

Still bleary-eyed, Tulsi pushed upward to sit straighter. Looking around, she discovered they were at a massive truck-stop.

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