Surviving Raine 02 Bastian's Storm by Shay Savage

Author:Shay Savage [Savage, Shay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
Publisher: Shay Savage, LLC
Published: 2014-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

“When are you going to let me talk to her?” I asked.

It was freaking freezing, and we’d been hard at training for three days straight outside a tiny, nearly deserted old mining town called Leaf Rapids. Landon had said it was near Thompson, but that was a load of shit. It had taken us more than three hours to get here. It was just about as uninhabitable a place I had ever seen, and the location of the tournament was supposed to be far more remote.

Landon let out a sigh. I grabbed a canteen of nearly frozen water and tried to recover from my latest jaunt across the icy land. I dropped my ass down on a tree stump near the lake and pulled a cigarette out of my pocket. It was slightly crushed, but serviceable. I had to take my hand out of my glove to light it, though.

I’d asked the same question at least a dozen times since we began training. I’d been met with silence or some comment about patience being a fucking virtue.

Landon looked up at me, glared at the cigarette, and then looked toward the setting sun.

“You make that your last cigarette today,” he said, “and you can call her tonight.”

I felt like a kid at fucking Christmas time. A kid with a real family and real parents who gave a shit and made sure there were presents wrapped up in red and green paper and a plate of cookies and milk for the elf dude. It was the kind of thing I’d never experienced, but I wanted to make sure I knew what it was supposed to be like so I could give all that to Alex.

I wanted to give him everything.

Knowing Raine was with him, even if it was against her will, made me feel like there was some actual hope for the future. It made me believe when this was all over, we could make it work.

That night, as I shoveled logs into a wood burning stove, Landon came up behind me and handed me his cell phone.

“Five minutes,” he said.

I took the phone from his hand and placed it up to my ear.

“Raine?”

“Bastian? Oh my God, Bastian!”

“It’s me, baby,” I said. I could hear her crying. “Are you all right?”

“I’m okay,” she sniffed.

“Where are you?” I asked.

“Somewhere in Canada.”

“Thompson?”

“That might be it.”

I looked to Landon, and he nodded once.

“I’m just a few hours away from there,” I told her. “Everything is okay, baby.”

“That man,” Raine said with a shushed voice, “that Landon man—he came to the condo. He grabbed me and…and…”

“I know, Raine,” I said as I glared up at him. “I know what he did. I didn’t know he was going to do it, but he did it to protect you.”

“Protect me?” Raine practically yelled. “He hauled me out of the building with a gun in my back!”

I placed my hand over the mouthpiece of the phone.

“You took her at gunpoint?” I hissed.

“I couldn’t haul her out kicking and screaming, could I?” Landon said with a shrug.

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