She screams at that, and it just makes me hard again.
“Screaming for me now, Brooks?”I murmur.“That’s new.”
She laughs and growls at the same time, scratching hard down my back, and I laugh back.
Because if there’s one thing I know about Brooks Landry, it’s that we’ll never stop fighting each other.But at the end of the day, that is never, ever going to mean that we’re not done.
The truth is, it’s just our love language.
And we’ve been learning it since the day we met.
***
By the time I return her the next morning, we’re both scratched and bruised.Her lips are swollen and I have bite marks down the inside of my thigh.She’s got bruises around her throat and teeth marks over her jugular, and though I should feel guilty about returning her in this shape, I don’t.
I wish I’d marked her even more.
And I hope her father sees those marks and realizes what they mean.
Because Brooks has told me what’s been going on–the warehouses full of girls, the basement, and the Russian in the poker game.She’s told me about the men she killed and what she’s seen in their databases.
And that she’s the one who stopped the shipment to the port.By saving the girls and sending them to a safe house with Kate and Camille.
I don’t want to let her go back.Every instinct I have is screaming that this is a bad idea, and that her father is going to figure out she’s behind the girls disappearing sooner rather than later.
But she’s told me one other thing, and that changed everything.
She saw her brother in the basement of the mansion.
And he had Corinne.
She doesn’t know anything more than that, but when I told her I didn’t want her going back into her father’s house, she looked me dead in the eye and shook her head.
“I have to, Lucien.How else are we going to get your sister back?”
We.
How arewegoing to get my sister back.
She’s right, and I know it.I’ve been worried that Dom had Corinne, and now that I know he does, there’s no question in my mind that we have to get her back as quickly as possible.If the timeline stands, we already have merely days before she’s sent to some other location.
I won’t lose her.I can’t.
And Brooks is right: We’ve been trying to get Aislyn back for a week, now, and we’ve had no luck because we can’t find her.
But Brooks knows where Corinne is, and she has access to the location.She has an insider’s credentials right now.
So if we’re going to get Corinne back, we have to do it while Brooks is still in her father’s good graces.
And as she kisses me deeply, then turns and slips out of the car, I’m thinking only one thing: God, I hope she can find Corinne before her own cover is blown and her father kills her.
Because I don’t think I’ll survive losing Corinne.
But I know for a fact that losing Brooks will destroy me.
Brooks
“Ms.Landry, you’re wanted outside.”
