Sneak Attack: Tapped Out Book 2 by Quinn Cari & Elliott Taryn

Author:Quinn, Cari & Elliott, Taryn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rainbow Rage Publishing
Published: 2021-06-09T16:00:00+00:00

Twelve

This was the last conversation I wanted to have tonight. But lately, my wants weren’t ranking real high.

Mia curled her fingers around the stem of her wine glass. “Who wants me to fight?” she asked carefully, her tone probably not dissimilar to that of her therapist’s. It was the tone used while talking to someone who was precariously balanced.

She wasn’t wrong. The idea of her getting back into the ring again, especially under these circumstances, was enough to make me jump out of my skin.

And she’d wanted to start a regime of medication? Absolutely fucking not. I wouldn’t risk the side effects when she had to fight.

Couldn’t risk her, not again.

I didn’t look at her. I was afraid if I did, I’d launch myself across the table and wrap her in my arms and never let her go.

So much for her needing a shrink when I didn’t. Right now, we were running neck-and-neck.

“What do you remember about last night?” I cut into my meat just to give myself something to do. The food was delicious, but my appetite had fled the moment she’d mentioned the emergency appointment with her therapist.

I knew she needed to talk to someone, and she was so brave for taking that step. But it made me face all the steps I wasn’t taking myself. All the ways I was letting her down—and myself.

“I remember everything, Tray,” she snapped. “I didn’t lose my memory. Just checked out for a while.”

“Tell me. Just run through what happened, briefly. For my sake.”

She blew out a breath and did as I asked. She recounted the night’s events from our phone call to when she’d arrived at the club, and after, when she’d decked Lorenzo and Giovanni had shepherded us out of the place as if we were a pair of lambs set for slaughter.

Neither of us were innocents, and we definitely weren’t defenseless. Gio knew that. So the men we’d inadvertently come up against must be more dangerous than I’d begun to guess.

I would find out. One way or another. But first, I had to get Mia ready to fight. And to win.

“I wasn’t asleep, and I wasn’t unaware. I knew what was happening. If I’d wanted to speak, I could have. I don’t fully know how to explain it.” She gripped her fork and studied her plate. “All I know is that it happened then—and in that way—because you were there and I knew I was safe.” She lifted her gaze. “You wouldn’t let anything happen. For once, I didn’t have to control the outcome of everything. You were there,” she repeated softly.

I reached across the table to cup my hand over hers. “I’ll always be there. Understand me?”

She nodded, lowering her head. “I don’t want to end up in that situation again,” she whispered, turning her hand up to grip mine. “Just because I can lean on you doesn’t mean I can ignore what happened. I got lucky I was in a safe situation. But next time, I might not be.

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