Forsaken by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781476793801
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2015-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

CAUTIOUSLY, I SHUT THE DOOR. “I see you found my stockpile of weapons.”

“Now we’re even,” she replies. “You have one, and so do I.” I step toward her. “Don’t,” she warns.

“Why?”

“Because you want the gun, and I’m not letting you take my only way to protect myself.”

“You don’t have to protect yourself from me. I pulled you out of the arms of that attacker today, remember?”

“To serve a purpose. To serve you.”

“I thought we agreed that we both want to destroy Sheridan.”

“You want my help until you don’t need me anymore. Then you’ll do just what you promised and sell me to the highest bidder.”

“I don’t have any reason to sell you.”

“You’ll find one.”

I narrow my gaze. “Why did those men come after you?”

“Do you have the cylinder?”

“You’re deflecting. You also told me to convince everyone I didn’t have it, and I assume that includes you.”

She stands, holding the gun on me. “Do you have the cylinder?”

“Don’t you think I’d have sold it by now if I did?”

“I don’t know. Would you?”

“Why do you care so much?”

“I have nothing and no one because I tried to protect it. You know this.” She scrapes her teeth over her lips. “Fine. Don’t tell me. Just answer this. Did you mean it when you said you’d do anything for money? When you said you’d do anything for a price?”

“Why? Are you offering?”

“Don’t keep playing word games with me. You said you’d do anything for money, but you also said you turned down five hundred million because this was bigger than the money.” Her voice is quavering, laced with some mix of emotions—anger? Fear? “Which is it?” she demands.

Fear and anger. Yes. That’s what I see in her, but there is pain, too, heartache, like what I’d seen in her face when we talked about children. Whatever is going on here is far more personal than she’s letting on.

“Gia,” I murmur softly. “Put down the gun.”

“Answer me, Chad!”

I close the distance between us and cover the gun with my hand, aiming it past my body. “Gia.”

“Damn you. I just want an answer.”

“Tell me why this matters to you,” I order.

“I told you—”

“The real reason, Gia. The reason I see in your eyes, in the shaking of your hand. The reason that you gave up everything. The reason those men were after you.”

She releases the gun and sinks onto the bed. I go down on a knee in front of her, and set the gun on the ground, out of her reach. “Talk to me,” I order softly.

“I’m not a secretary.”

“I knew that.”

“I was working on a top-secret project, which I destroyed before I helped you escape.”

“Re-creating the cylinder?”

“Yes.”

“How’d you get on that team?”

“I won awards and trained with some cutting-edge chemists in the field of clean energy. It was a topic that my father . . . lectured on frequently. It was his passion. Now it’s my passion, and my way to stay connected to him. The idea that an oil company would want

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