The good ones. Not the nightmares.
Although if he was going to be stricter than Jared, she might start to rethink that.
With a grumble, she sat and started to write.
The men didn’t speak, both of them working quietly. She wondered what they were working on. And who had visited him earlier.
“I thought Rex would be home by now,” Jared said.
“I’ll go and try calling him.” North disappeared.
When she lived with Fergus, there were always people in and out of his house.
Most of them evil.
But Jared had only had one visitor that she knew of since she’d been here.
“Does your family visit much?” she asked Jared, glancing up at him.
“Lines are supposed to be written in silence,” Jared told her. “But no, I discourage that as much as I can.”
“Jared doesn’t like any of his family members except for his cousin, Tabby,” North told her as he returned. “I couldn’t get through to Rex.”
“I remember Tabby.” She hadn’t had a chance to talk to her much, but she’d seemed sweet and kind.
Unlike all of the other Bartollis.
“Jared got rid of the worst of the family,” North added.
“You did? Vincento? Robert? Matthew?”
“All dead,” Jared told her. “Along with Marcus and James.”
Oh, thank God.
They were the worst of the offenders. Especially Robert. She shuddered as she thought of that monster. He’d been Fergus’s younger brother. And he’d enjoyed helping Fergus hurt her.
Turning back to the lines, she felt relief course through her, taking away some of her heaviness. She hadn’t realized it until now, but she’d been worried that she’d run into one of those assholes while she was here.
And she wasn’t sure she could have coped with that.
Letting out a deep breath, she placed her hand on her stomach.
Calm down.
“Angie, look at me,” Jared said in a soft voice.
She raised her gaze to his.
“I will never let anyone hurt you again.”
Angie shook her head. He couldn’t make promises like that.
“I won’t. I promise. I take care of what belongs to me. And you now belong to me. Which means no one gets to hurt you. Certainly not my family. Understand me?”
He was serious?
She nibbled at her lip.
