Saviors_A Reverse Harem Bully Romance by Cassie James

Author:Cassie James [James, Cassie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Jax manages to ditch his folder behind the refrigerator just seconds before Ace steps into the kitchen. “Hey.” He eyes us both with a healthy dose of suspicion. “We all got worried when we couldn’t find either of you. No one realized you’d be coming back in here so early. We were talking about going for breakfast since all we’ve got here is the junk food from the car.”

Before I can get a word out, Jax is already nodding, but I do the opposite and shake my head. “Actually, do you all think maybe we could have someone go pick something up and bring it back?” I look around us at all the folders we’ve still yet to touch. “I think I’m ready to face what’s in here—before I lose my nerve.”

“Yeah, of course. Uh, Jax is the only one with a car,” Ace points out.

Jax looks like going to pick up food for everyone is the last thing in the world he’d want to do. “We could ask Jake to go,” I suggest. Jax starts to protest, but I stop him with a stern look. “Jake’s the best driver I know. He won’t hurt the car. And he’s the only one that doesn’t really have an invested stake in whatever we find in here. It makes the most sense to send him.”

“Fine,” he mutters.

I put my hands out and patiently wait for him to pass along his keys, which he does with the most pained look I think I’ve ever seen. I thank him with a chaste kiss on the cheek that makes Ace raise his brows. Not that I had a choice, after the lack of control I showed with Jax already this morning, anything more than quick brush on the cheek and I would have been going for round two on over-exposing my sex life to an audience. I’m not quite ready to do that so soon after the first embarrassment.

Leaving the two of them in the cottage, I go back to the main house in search of Jake. When I find him in his guest room looking horribly pensive as he stares out the window overlooking the beach, my heart sinks for a long moment.

He must sense my presence, because he turns before I say a word, his face lighting up when he catches sight of me. “Good morning,” he says, sounding completely calm and collected, in spite of what I’d been expecting.

I cross the room as I return his, “Good morning.” I look for any sign of him being upset, but his face doesn’t give away anything.

“Someone told you, didn’t they?” he asks with a grimace. I stopped what feels like a safe distance away for us to have this awkward conversation.

“Yeah.” I sink my teeth into my bottom lip as I try to think of what to say, but all I end up coming up with is, “I am so, so sorry.” When Jake doesn’t immediately respond, the rambling starts. “I didn’t mean for that to happen.

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