Chapter15
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
Sara
I’m sleeping and can’t wake up.Every time I try, I fall back to sleep, but something is coming after me and I can’t stay asleep.I have to wake up, but I can’t.
Something moves next to me in the dark.For a moment, I forget where I am and startle awake, pitching upright.
“Sara.”A soft voice pulls me out of it.Dante’s hand strokes down my back.“I’ve got you, pip.”
My breath falls out of me.My eyes adjust to the soft light coming from under the door.I turn to find shapes in the bed with me.My guys.My heart slows its frantic pace.
Dante sits up with me and draws me into his arms.“We haven’t had a chance to talk.”
We haven’t had a chance to do anything.The stress of being free was almost worse than being captive.Escape was all I could think of.But I’m here and they’re here for me.I turn in Dante’s arms and rest my head over his heart.
“Were you harmed in any way?”The words are soft, but there’s an underlying edge of anger that makes my pulse trip over itself.
“No, boss.He threatened that if anything was wrong with his daughter, he’d do the same to me.But otherwise, I was just a forced guest in his home.”I wrap around Dante, needing his warmth to thaw the cold inside me.The nightmare that still clings to me like ice.
Drew chuckles.“The only thing wrong with his daughter is she’s married to Tom and knocked up.”
“What?”I draw away from Dante and stare into the darkness at Drew.
“Fuck, are we doing this now?”Finn huffs out a breath.“I need more fucking sleep.And at some point, fucking.”
Anticipation floods me.
“You want to talk or sleep, trouble?”Wyatt trails his hand over my thigh, sending heat spiraling through me.
I kind of want the third option, but we should get more sleep before that and probably talk about where this is going.I swallow because having a talk about us might mean we’re over.
Tom’s back.We’re all still in danger, but this was supposed to end when Tom returned.
But the guys are all here right now.In bed.With me.That says something.Right?
Dante shifts and pulls me down with him onto the soft mattress.
“What happened with Tom?”I ask.
Wyatt blows out a breath, and his hand strokes over my hip and along my spine.“We found Natasha and Tom.She had a huge rock on her finger, so I punched Tom.They were already going to turn evidence on Sokolov over to the Feds.So we did that and managed to make it to our plane without any issues.”
Drew chimes in.“We confronted Tom on the plane about leaving you.I got to hit him.”
“I want to hit Tom,” Finn complains.“Since Sara smacked him, are we all out of rounds of hitting Tom?”
“Definitely not.”Dante squeezes me against him.“We all get a turn to fuck up Tom.”
A little shiver goes through me.He left me.His actions put me in danger.He tried to fuck up my life with Verity Baron.He deserves a few bruises.
“Natasha told us she’s pregnant, and that’s why they ran off together,” Drew finishes.“You know, so Daddy wouldn’t tear them apart.”
My heart thrums.I heard him say it before, but it really didn’t sink in.“I’m going to be an aunt?”
“Apparently, trouble.”Wyatt brushes his hand over my hair.
I don’t know how to feel about this information.Obviously, I’m excited Tom is having a baby and got married.I’m disappointed I wasn’t at the wedding.He didn’t even let me know he had someone he was serious about.That part I definitely don’t know what to do with.
