Seb's Surrender by Carol Lynne

Author:Carol Lynne [Lynne, Carol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857150233
Published: 2010-01-14T23:00:00+00:00

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Seb sat naked on his bed, surrounded by the letters Rick had sent Jared. He tried to keep his anger aimed at Rick. Although he wished Jared would have shown them to him when he’d received them, he couldn’t imagine how scared his lover had been.“Is this all of them?” he finally asked.

“Yeah.”

The letter describing in detail what Rick planned to do to Jared when he got out of jail still had Seb’s skin crawling. They were definitely not the writings of a sane man. “We have to give these to Detective Long.”

Jared nodded. “I know.”

“We should also go down to Lubbock so you can file charges against Bill for rape and assault.”

Jared nodded again. He hadn’t looked up from petting a sleeping Jelly Bean since he’d handed Seb the letters. “Do you think they’ll let me get into my house?”

“Why wouldn’t they?”

“Because Rick had the landlord take my name off and put his on instead. After he showed up, he wouldn’t let me out of the house. I hadn’t been able to get a real job, but I was mowing lawns for people. Rick said I couldn’t do that anymore because I might get stupid and tell someone he was living with me.”

Seb set the most recent letter down and pulled Jared onto his lap. “Did you ever try to get away?”

Jared nodded. “Once. He found me though. He took me home and tied me up. I was like that for almost a week. He wouldn’t feed Jelly Bean. She got so skinny. He said the next time I tried to get away, he’d kill her and make me eat her.”

Jared nuzzled his face against Seb’s neck. “I tried to get Jelly Bean to run away. I would put her outside after he left the house and pray that she’d run, but she never did. She’d sit at the screen door and meow for me.”

“Jelly Bean loves you.”

“Yeah. Sometimes I wished she didn’t though.”

Seb swallowed around the lump in his throat. He knew exactly what Jared was talking about. The tears in Alexander’s eyes as he looked out the back window of the social worker’s car still haunted him.

Knowing there was nothing he could say to make Jared feel better, Seb continued to hold him in silence. He knew the road ahead wouldn’t be easy for either one of them. Not only would Jared have to sit in front of a courtroom and tell what had happened to him at the hands of Rick and Bill, but Seb would have to hear it as well. How would he keep himself from going after the two men with intent to kill?

Seb knew he needed to tell everyone to keep their eyes open for Bill. Until the man was behind bars, Seb didn’t plan to let Jared out of his sight. With a building full of trained bodyguards, he knew Three Partners was better equipped than the police at tracking Bill down.

He noticed how quiet Jared had become. He glanced down and realised his lover was asleep.

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