Rough Edge: Brotherhood Protectors World (Out of the Wild Book 4) by Jen Talty & Brotherhood Protectors World

Author:Jen Talty & Brotherhood Protectors World [Talty, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Press LLC
Published: 2019-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

Sage watched Clayton walk out the front door, leaving her alone with her father.

When she’d woken up in bed by herself, she worried that maybe Clayton had regretted their night together, but then she’d heard her father’s voice, and her stomach turned to cement. It was in that moment she knew without a doubt that it was time to stop lying to herself.

“Has that man hurt you?” her father asked, his tone filled with anger and maybe a hint of fear, not concern.

Sage had waited a lifetime for her parents to genuinely care about her well-being, but this wasn’t the moment, and now she knew it would never come.

“Clayton wouldn’t hurt anyone,” she said firmly. “Why are you here, Dad?” She poured two cups of coffee and set one on the counter while she held the other one to her lips, trying not to gag on the horrible taste.

“Why aren’t you answering your phone?” her father asked, leaning against the counter with his arms folded across his massive chest. His face contorted much like it had the day she made her last loan payment, something he used to try to control her with, but she was done with allowing anyone to control her actions. For years, she’d tried to please her parents without compromising herself, yet she failed miserably, on both accounts.

Only, standing in the middle of a mobile home, she realized there was no pleasing her parents. She could have done exactly what they asked of her, and she’d still feel as though she was nothing but a minor blip on their radar.

She had to wonder why they hadn’t aborted her or given her up for adoption because the only thing she represented to them was a family photo opportunity so the media would focus on how great her father was, not that he crushed companies and the people who own them for sport.

“Clayton told me to keep it off until they caught whoever tried to kidnap me,” she said, swallowing the bile that smacked the back of her throat.

“Is that his shirt you’re wearing?” her father asked with a fair amount of disgust dripping from his tongue.

“It is,” she admitted.

“God damn it. I’m going to give that man a piece of my mind for taking advantage of—”

“Stop blustering,” she said as calmly as she could. “You don’t give a shit about me or who I sleep with as long as it doesn’t interfere with your work.”

Her father gasped as if in shock. Maybe he was considering she’d seldom dared to talk back or be assertive. “I’ve been worried sick and now to think this dirty old man—”

“Clayton is a good man. I’m wearing his shirt because all I have is my red cocktail dress. The policeman who was supposed to bring me some clothes had something important to take care of and couldn’t make it out here the last few days.” She shouldn’t have had to explain herself, but she didn’t want her father to go off and hit Clayton, because that would only end badly for dear old dad.

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