The Rebel's Redemption (Mershano Empire Series Book 3) by Lexi C. Foss

Author:Lexi C. Foss [Foss, Lexi C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ninja Newt Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

17

Wyatt

What. The. Fuck?

I’d expected to find Avery well rested and excited to see us, not… broken. The way she’d clung to Jamie brought back so many memories of my own mother holding on to me.

Begging.

Pleading with Jonah not to take me.

But he always won.

His checkbook too big for her to argue. She needed him to survive, mostly because she’d given up everything to have me. She’d been too young, an innocent hotel clerk ensnared by a powerful man who refused to let her work anywhere in his industry again after getting her pregnant. Rather than fight him, or to try to find a new job, she gave in and agreed to his financial terms.

A deal with the proverbial devil.

One that he ended at his leisure, taking me from her arms and leaving her to perish.

Avery’s expression tonight resembled my mother’s on the last day I saw her.

“I thought I was never going to see you again,” Avery had said.

And later…

“I love you like you’re my own. No matter what happens.”

I shouldn’t have eavesdropped, but I wanted to understand. To find out what had put that shattered look on her beautiful face.

Had she thought we were gone for good? Didn’t she know I would tell her if I planned to take Jamie away from her?

No, better question—didn’t she realize just how impossible that would be?

He adored her, hadn’t stopped talking about her all weekend to everyone he met, saying over and over how much he wanted her to be there. It was why we’d bought her a souvenir—a gift that now sat on my dresser because I didn’t know how to give it to her.

I ran my fingers through my hair for the millionth time and blew out a breath. I’d left my door open, assuming Avery would want to talk. But she’d disappeared into her room over an hour ago. The water had run for thirty minutes, then the last half hour was too silent.

It was too early for her to go to bed.

So why hadn’t she come out yet? We clearly needed to discuss this.

I sound like a woman in a relationship—we need to talk.

“Shit.” I flopped onto my back, staring at the ceiling. Then sat back up again. “Fuck it.”

I needed to understand what was going through her head, and the only way to find out was to ask. It wasn’t like I just took Jamie away for the weekend without telling her. And hell, I’d booked her a spa package with a note suggesting she take the weekend to relax. So whatever had her all riled up was a misunderstanding, one we needed to address. Right now.

I didn’t bother putting on a shirt and, instead, wandered down the hall in just a pair of sweatpants. Avery’s door was ajar, her light still on inside.

I knocked softly. “Avery?”

No reply.

I nudged the door open just enough to see if she’d fallen asleep with her lamp on and found her sitting on her bed in a towel, staring at the wall.

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