Unbroken (The Protectors, Book 12) by Sloane Kennedy

Author:Sloane Kennedy [Kennedy, Sloane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SK Publishing, LLC
Published: 2018-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Aleks

Despite Vaughn’s reassurance that I wasn’t broken, I was a far cry from being fixed. Not that I’d expected some miracle cure with his words or because I’d given myself permission to shout a swear word a few times. Even now as the men around me began strategizing, it was all I could do not to call out for the darkness that had been my comfort for so long. Since I needed something to ground me, I began twisting my hands together as I tried to listen.

But it wasn’t enough.

Vaughn and I were sitting on the couch and our legs were touching, but I found that wasn’t enough either. Since he’d seemed okay with his brother and friends seeing him holding me earlier, I had to hope what I was about to do wouldn’t upset or embarrass him. I kept my eyes on whoever was speaking as I let the fingers of my left hand slide over my own leg and then brush against Vaughn’s. My goal was to just have the little bit of contact with him, but he surprised me when he calmly slipped his hand down to cover mine. Then he was linking our fingers.

And he kept right on talking without missing a beat.

Like holding my hand was the most natural thing in the world.

I pulled in a breath, then another and felt my body relax a bit. My mind cleared and I zeroed in on Vaughn’s voice as he spoke.

“We need to let Stylianos seek us out,” he said to Luca. “If you just start parading around the fact that you have Aleks, he’ll get suspicious… most people will. He’s already going to be looking at you for killing his men.”

“I had my team plant evidence that points to a few other potential parties,” King said. “Hopefully that will throw Stylianos off… he’ll just think you were one of a few guys going after Aleks.”

Although I knew none of them considered me property, I knew it had to look that way if any of this was going to work. But it still made me sick to think about how that’s what I’d once been… and that there were people out there who wanted to make me that again.

“I think we need to throw Stylianos off even more,” Vaughn said. “We need to make it look like an independent party took Aleks for the cash payout and Luca just happened to find out about it before anyone else… it’ll legitimize Luca too.” Vaughn looked at King. “Do you have any guys who can play the role?”

“Yeah,” King said, his face pulled into a mask of seriousness.

“We’ll need to get Lex and his team on creating Luca’s posts saying he has Aleks—” Vaughn said.

“No,” King interrupted. “Lex isn’t available. I’ll take care of the posts.”

All three men looked at King in surprise. Con said, “King, he’d want to be involved in the search for Gio—”

“No,” King repeated, his expression unwavering as he pinned Con with frosty eyes. “He’s not available.

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