Page 79 of Where Sinners Repent

Griff nods, a loose curl falling down his face.

“If everything’s gone to plan, there’s probably a huge semi blown to pieces on the highway by now.”

Maddy lets out a shaky laugh. “That’s so much better than everything going through my mind.”

Some of the colour returns to her face as she takes another sip of wine.

She looks at me, shaking her head and rolling her eyes. “That man will make me gray before I’m thirty. Freaking hell!”

I laugh, choking on my wine. She’s just too damn cute. Sitting here surrounded by Devils in her pink, silky pyjamas and wide eyes.

“Plus,” Matty drawls from behind the bar. “He’s got the twins with him. The murder machines themselves.”

The room tilts and my fingers tighten around the stem of the wine glass.

Maddy giggles at that. But I don’t find it funny.

Because now I’m imagining Kai hurt. Even though he is most likely the one doing the hurting.

A cold sweat forms on the back of my neck. Maddy and Matty are still talking, but I can’t quite grasp the words they are saying.

Trying to gain a semblance of control over my racing heart, I finish the huge glass of wine and hold the glass out for more. Matty fills it up without missing a beat, and that one meets the same ending.

My stomach warms with the alcohol, but my nerves are frayed thinking about that man in danger.

It’s not until the door squeals open that I notice anything happening around me.

Maddy gasps, jumping off her stool and sprinting over to the man in the doorway. Ash catches her easily, taking her lips with his own. His wild black hair stands in every direction, and with his eyes flaring, he looks completely untamed.

Maddy wraps her arms around his neck and legs around his waist, holding onto him for dear life.

Completely in fucking love with the wild man.

But all I can focus on is looking over his shoulder, waiting for someone else to walk in. And he does.

Dark eyes and dark skin, with a long leather jacket covering his sculpted body.

When I stand, the world spins. The two huge glasses of wine have gone straight through me, and my fingers tingle.

I’m also blaming it on the fact that my stomach churns when his eyes land on mine and stay there.

Ash is laughing quietly into Maddy’s hair, and men are whooping and celebrating whatever happened tonight.

None if it matters to me.

Kai stalks towards me, and my feet move before my mind catches up. Stopping just before him as he loom over me. From here, I can see the way his pupils are blown out and his lips are parted just slightly.

My hand lands on his hard chest.

“Are you okay?” I whisper, eyes still searching him all over for any new injuries.

His hand whips out and grips my wrist painfully, pulling a gasp from my lips.

Then I smile. A slow curve of my lips, before sucking my bottom lip between my teeth. Because this isn’t Kai. No. This is his much crueller and colder brother.

“Oh, hello Kaleb. Nice to see you.”

His grip tightens just a fraction, and I don’t bother pulling my hand away.