I pause, staring into those eyes that make my world tilt every time.
“It doesn’t matter where,” I agree. “Jack, I—”
A whoosh of air hits as the door by my head swings open.
“Killborne!” Daddy hisses and points a gun at Jack. “Get off my daughter!”
Chapter 19
Morgan
Some moments change everything forever.
The second my father found me in a church parking lot, with a man between my legs, I know nothing will be the same.
A gun points at Jack. He claws at the opposite door handle and rolls back out of the car. He’s gone.
“Are you okay?” Dad says and puts his firearm on the car floor. He searches around anxiously, checking if passerby’s saw the weapon or a man flee from the vehicle.
I sit up and hold my chest, my heart pounding. “I’m fine. I’m fine.”
“Did he hurt you? What happened?”
“No, he didn’t hurt me. I... um.”
“He tried to rape you, didn’t he? Those Killborne brothers are obsessed with you! I’ll call the police. We’ll make both of those boys pay!”
“Daddy. He didn’t try to rape me,” I explain with painful angst in my voice.
“He was attacking you! We are getting you a bodyguard. Full-time. This willneverhappen again.”
Tears run down my cheeks, and I force myself to spit out the truth:
“I love Jack.”
He stares as if I just hit him across the face with a crowbar.
I twist my fingers nervously. I don’t know how to get out of this.
But his eyes sear, demanding an answer.
“Nothing happened, though. We just kissed.”
Shoot. Now I’m lying.
“This is why you stopped seeing Gabe, isn’t it?”
“Yeah,” I lie again, cringing.
The only truth I’ve spoken is the one I needed to say aloud.
I love Jack.
I really do.
The tension in the air thickens as he tries to digest this devastating information.
He pinches the bridge of his nose for a long while, then lifts his gaze to mine.
