Taken by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren [Warren, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, romance, bundle
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2021-08-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Elijah

A little market at the base of the mountain sells dimpled grapefruit and homemade pasta and hand-painted pottery. That’s where we leave Liam and Josh. My concession to doing this with Holly is that they’re nearby with an open radio connection.

I drive up the narrow road, my eyes on the trees, wondering how many men Taggart has stationed. One of them pretends to change a tire in his beat-up truck. Another one watches from the porch of a small shack, rocking on a chair with a black cat in his lap. No doubt Taggart knows our precise progress up the mountain to his mansion.

Holly sits in the passenger seat, silently shredding a napkin she found in the center console. The floorboard is covered in white confetti. I know she feels bad about what happened this afternoon. I should say something reassuring, but I don’t feel reassuring. I feel pissed off. I’m angry that Liam broke things up, that he assumed the worst, even while I’m wondering if it was right. Maybe I am becoming my father. Where is the fucking line? I should tell Holly that I care about her, that I’m sorry about earlier, but what I really want to do is tell her to finish the blowjob she started while we drive to this meeting.

“We should talk about what happened,” she says finally.

“Should we?”

“Yes.” A firm answer that’s belied by her nervousness. When she runs out of napkin, she picks up the pieces on her lap and tears them into even smaller pieces. “We should.”

“I don’t know what there is to say. My brother caught us fucking.”

“And you thought you were taking advantage of me.”

“Wasn’t I?”

“No.”

“Right,” I say, a hollow feeling in my chest. “Other girls want roses and dates at nice restaurants. You like to be fucked after I teach you to shoot a gun.”

“Well,” she says, her tone reasonable. “I didn’t really learn how to shoot the gun. I don’t think you should count on being an instructor or anything. It’s not really your strong suit.”

Humor licks at the dark cloud that’s been hanging over me, and I have to fight the quirk of my lips. How does this woman manage to make me laugh when I’m ready to pound a concrete block into dust? “What should my profession be, then?”

“I mean you’re very good at this whole fighting soldier thing, but I guess… I guess you don’t do that anymore? Your work for the government? The whole undercover thing?”

“I was honorably discharged.” In other words, they were forced to release me because I had way too much dirt on the higher-ups. In particular, the lieutenant colonel. It was either let me go peacefully or order a hit. Part of me still looks over my shoulder for an assassin.

“So now you work for your brother?”

The hollow feeling is back. “Sure. Unless he fires me.”

“For having sex?”

“For forcing you to have sex. For degrading you. For using you.”

“You’re not giving me any control over the situation.”

I know I’m being an asshole, but I can’t help the taunting tone.

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