Toxicity (Out of the Box Book 13) by Robert J. Crane

Author:Robert J. Crane [Crane, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ostiagard Press
Published: 2017-03-14T06:00:00+00:00

28.

June

“This wasn’t how it was supposed to be,” June said into the running shower nozzle. It rained hot, steaming water down on her, boiling her like a lobster under its blazing onslaught, like a sun-stream of heat and liquid scalding her flesh.

She didn’t care. Her bare ass was on the shower tub floor, her tail bone protesting at the uncomfortable way she was sitting, steam hanging in the air above her and giving everything that pungent, humid smell. She’d been in here for long minutes, maybe half an hour, but she didn’t care. Ell would be fine without her for a while, and she needed this time.

They’d followed Interstate 75 all the way up to Gainesville, Florida, and gotten off at an exit where they saw hotels. They picked one of the big name, mid-range ones and checked in, saying little. What was there to say?

They both knew what was after them now. Was Sienna Nealon going to just give up now that the cops had come after them all and made her run? Doubtful, if she’d actually gone out of her way to come after her and Ell already.

That was the part June couldn’t figure out. How did Sienna Nealon know to come after them? Thus far they’d only clashed with—

With that FBI agent. She threw her head back, and hot water ran down her neck and chest, her hair dangling and dribbling down her back. Of course. How could she not have seen it immediately?

They’d beaten him, humiliated him. Of course he would have gone for help. And they were exes, weren’t they? So he’d gotten beat, and he’d gone looking for help from her, naturally, because …

Because she was just about the baddest badass he could have picked.

June put her head down again. Of course she would have sided with him. That was one of the things June was having trouble with, and it pissed her off that it bothered her so. Sienna Nealon was like a god—goddess, whatever—and she’d shown up and thrown down against them!

Against her.

It was like a personal insult. A slap to the face, a punch to the gut.

And she’d cost June her dream.

It was probably the single most devastating thing June could ever remember happening to her. Not just the fact that Sienna Nealon had shown up, but that she’d shown up and driven it home, hard, that this wasn’t some happy-go-lucky trip. All those good feelings, the love and light she’d felt, those happy moments when she and Ell weren’t arguing …

That was all over now. Because of Sienna Nealon.

How could June ignore it, now that this had happened? The cops were after her. Before, she might not have believed they had a chance against her and Ell, but now … trading a kick with Sienna Nealon, and knowing she was being treated with kid gloves …

It had driven it all home in a way nothing else could have.

“Our days are numbered,” June muttered under her breath.

Trouble was coming.

A knock at the door sounded and it squeaked as Ell opened it a crack.

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