Guarding Raine by Kylie Brant

Author:Kylie Brant [Brant, Kylie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-04-18T12:36:59+00:00

Chapter C

e'd been half-prepared for Raine's answer, Mac was still jolted by it.

"His big hands clenched and unclenched on his knees.

A red mist swam before his eyes, and he knew if it had been within his power he'd have made sure the man died for hurting her.

A long, slow, merciless death.

She swallowed around the knot in her throat and forced herself to continue.

"He grabbed a rock and hit me. I don't remember anything after that. I found out later that John and William had: been looking all over for me.

They heard me screaming, but' by the time they got there, I was unconscious and he was on top of me;,."

Words dogged in her throat.

She hadn't talked about this for a very long time, and she faltered at the mask of menace that had d~ sc ended over his features.

Then her trepidation was wiped away when he reached out pulled her into his arms, sinking back onto his ] his face in her hair, he squeezed her tightly.

She'd been raped.

The stark, ugly truth pounded inside his skull.

His fur, great that he shook from it.

He rocked her back and forth arms, soothing her, trying to calm himself, not sure if he was pable of either.

One hand threaded through her hair, I: head Her voice was husky when she spoke again.

"I woke up the next day after surgery, and the man was already in jail.

William and John had caught him, and they provided the ID. He pleaded no contest. I didn't even have to go to court."

"How old were you?"

"Fifteen,"

she whispered.

He closed his eyes in pain.

He could envision her at that age, all long, swinging hair and wide eyes.

At an age when she should have been acquiring boyfriends and the art of flirting, her life had been shattered in a way that he could barely comprehend.

The lessons she'd learned then hadn't been on new hairstyles and the mysteries of teenage boys, they'd been in the random cruelty of life, and how to t2!

ck up the pieces and go on.

He rose suddenly and reached for her hand, pulling her to her feet.

She didn't question his sudden movement as 'he led her out of the room and down the stairs.

He opened the front door and crossed to the porch swing, her wrist still in his hand.

Then he sank down in one corner, and the tug on her wrist urged her next to him.

They swung silently for a time, she exhausted from the retelling.

"Your father never said a word about this to me,"

he said tersely.

"Not when he hired me, not later. Not one word."

"I'm not surprised,"

she said quietly.

"He's never spoken of it to me, either."

She watched the sun sink behind the horizon pensively.

"My father loves me very much. But he spent his whole life trying to shield my mother and me from life. I think,.. he just couldn't deal with the fact that he hadn't been able to do that. Thinking about what happened to me was just too painful for him, and he couldn't talk about it.

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