Stud for Hire by Sabrina York

Author:Sabrina York
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-07-18T09:44:29+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Zack was silent as they sped down the country road to the highway. He took the turn too sharply and Hanna was flung against the passenger door. “Please slow down, Zack.”

“Shut up.”

“Zack . . .”

“Just shut up.” He pressed down hard on the accelerator and the truck surged forward. Hanna decided to do as he said and hold her tongue, lest he, in his fury, kill them both. But when they passed the turnoff for her home and he didn’t take it, she couldn’t remain silent.

“Zack, where are we going?”

He glared at her.

“I want to go home.”

“I don’t give a shit what you want, Hanna.”

“Look. Zack. I’m sorry about . . . well, about what happened. I understand if you want to end our engagement.”

He laughed. It wasn’t a pleasant sound. “Oh no, honey. It ain’t that easy. You’re still marrying me. The only difference is, we ain’t waiting for the honeymoon.”

Something cold curled in her belly.

“What-what do you mean?”

He turned on a small dirt road. He didn’t slow his speed, so they hit all the ruts and she bounced around like a Mexican jumping bean. He turned onto another road, one even narrower than the last, and screeched to a stop amid a thick stand of trees.

He switched off the truck and turned to her.

The look in his eye made her mouth go dry.

“I mean, we ain’t gonna wait. I swear to God, Hanna. For seven years I’ve wanted you. For seven years I’ve treated you like a fucking princess. Convinced that you were too all high-and-mighty pure for a man like me. To discover you’ve been whoring around with someone like Logan Landry . . .” Zack snorted. His eyes blazed with a frightening fervor. His menace enveloped her like a cloud. “I knew I should have killed him that night,” he spat.

Hanna’s pulse lurched. “What night? What are you talking about?”

“Don’t play games with me, missy. Do you think I don’t remember?” He scooted across the bench seat. She backed up against the door, but there was no escape from his hot breath and he loomed nearer.

Oh, she’d made an error coming with him today. There was no doubt about that. Now all she could do was try to escape.

She reached for the door handle. He grabbed her wrist in a tight hold, so tight it hurt. She tried to break free, but would sooner break her wrist.

She knew this look in his eyes. She’d seen it before. That night . . .

A long submerged memory bobbed to the surface, blurry and disjointed, but the gist of it was clear and her blood went cold.

God. That night.

That night behind the school after the spring dance when he’d told her he had something to show her. When he’d led her under the bleachers and then tried to—

She couldn’t think of it. She couldn’t. The fear would paralyze her.

She stiffened her spine, and searched her memory, trying to recall what she’d learned in the self-defense courses she’d taken.

“Don’t .

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