SEAL'd Trust (Brotherhood of SEAL'd Hearts) by Gabi Moore

Author:Gabi Moore [Moore, Gabi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8 - Jack

She was bent over him, nailing him to the ground somehow even though she was half his size. With a swell of admiration, I realized that I’d forgotten how insanely strong she was. And I’d clearly forgotten how beautiful, too. She had softened somehow. No more leather and dark lipstick. Instead, she was flushed pink, gentle looking, her hair loose and hanging casually around her bare face. It took me by surprise to see her like that, honestly. And by the look on her face, she was just as surprised.

“I thought you…”

“You thought they’d kill me? What?”

The guy under her wriggled and she instantly released a ferocious thrust downwards into his neck. He stopped at once.

“Well, yes I did actually,” she said and stared at me hard, almost challenging me.

I laughed.

“Why did they send you?” she said.

“Does it matter? Besides, they didn’t need to send me, I wanted to come here of my own accord. You set me up.”

She said nothing. But she looked pained.

“Jack, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to. But you were the only possibility. You were the one they sent along with me that night. If it had been someone else…”

“Bullshit! You deliberately chose to fuck with me and then have me take the fall.”

“Jack, please, I know you’re mad, but listen…”

“I’m not listening to a damn thing. I’m not leaving here until I’ve put a bullet in your head.”

Panic flashed over her face. In all my fantasies - the ones where I kill her - she was always faceless, evil, and entirely unrepentant. I hadn’t even imagined that she would apologize to me. In fact, I had never imagined that staring at her again would make me feel so …protective over her. I didn’t know if I wanted to jump in there and get that guy away from her, or whether I wanted to pull the trigger and kill her immediately or whether I wanted to …do other things to her.

“Please, Jack. It’s more complicated than that…”

I knew she had it in her to kill the guy she was crouching over. It was nothing for a woman like Evie. And I could not go back to Joey again with one man down. I was already in a tight position and I knew that she had no problem playing dirty with me.

“Let him go,” I said.

“No.”

“You’re making a mistake, Evie. This is the end of the road for you, and you know it. If you run away now, they’ll just send more people to come and find you. And kill you. It’s over.”

“Jack, I’ve wanted to tell you something ever since that day…”

I exchanged incredulous glances with the guy standing in the doorway.

“Well?”

“I made a mistake, Jack. I know that. There was something… I saw something, that night. Not just in you and in me, but I saw something else, something wonderful,” she said, her voice trailing off. It was like she was looking elsewhere, somewhere far off into the distance, way beyond the confines of the walls of this shitty apartment.

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