“Seems like you had a bit of fun without us,” Orion says.
“If you wanna call it that,” Sunny replies, and she attempts to stroll away.
I grab her arm and wait until she finally looks at me. “Tell me if you want me to kill him. I will hunt him down for you. No questions asked.”
A hint of her smirk forms on her face. “Sweet, but unnecessary. I’ll manage on my own.”
She tries to walk off, but I'm tired of her running away from whatever is bothering her conscience.
I’m desperate…
“Talk to us, please,” I say.
Desperate to connect with her.
She pauses near the warehouse door, clearly still affected by whatever went down here.
I’m sure it was Atreus. There’s no way it was anyone else. She wouldn’t let them.
But Atreus Foley definitely is the kind of man to try to chain a woman like her down.
He needs to pay for what he’s done.
“I can’t let you pretend nothing is wrong,” I say. “Let us help you.”
She glances at me over her shoulder, the pain in her eyes so visceral it cuts too deep to leave without scars. “I don’t know what you want from me.”
And frankly, I don't know what I could ever ask from her, either. Because I’ve invaded her life, against her will, out of my own obsession with her. And I can’t seem to let it go, no matter what.
But I don’t want to be the one to slowly unravel her. I don’t want to be her downfall. Yet when I look at her, I’m drawn to her like nothing else. She’s an enigma, a magnet for my every wicked desire. I am deathly afraid of her, but also very much in love.
But I could never, ever say that out loud.
“Nothing,” I say.
She nods a couple of times, then adds a sweet smile. “I’m going on another hunt. Don’t try to stop me.”
I don’t intend to. “I’m coming with you.”
“Me too,” Orion says.
She frowns as she glances between the two of us. “What?”
“I’m serious. No more hiding,” I say.
“You’ll only get in the way,” she rebukes.
But I keep stepping closer. “I won’t.”
“You’ll die trying to help me.”
That won’t deter me. “Then so be it.”
She sighs out loud as I stand right in front of her. But I’m already as close to death’s door as I can be just by being in her vicinity. There is nothing left to fear when you’re already facing your biggest fear.
“You’re really not going to let this go, are you?” she asks, clutching the door.
Orion picks up the saw with a big grin on his face and throws his blond hair over his shoulder in an outrageous manner. “Nope.”
