Cresh said, now standing at the side of the bed. “Just... look at you...” “Please,” I whispered. “Don’t do anything. Not like this.” “He handcuffs you. He abuses you.” “No, he doesn’t. He commands and protects me.” Cresh looked at Jonathan’s still body on the floor and laughed. “I doubt he’...
But then I heard the sound of the water running across the giant room. The faint sound of the shower started to calm me. I had to trust in Jonathan Black more than ever before. I had to understand that the greatest threat of all - Katherine - was gone. Anything else that came and anything else th...
(Layne) The compound was well secured. Mostly by junk. Cars and trucks were up on lifts, stripped down to skeleton frames. Cinderblock walls stacked maybe twenty feet high or more, a large square design. Hell, it had the appeal of a prison. The parts without concrete walls had thick chain fen...
His face turned a deep shade of red and when he grabbed my wrist I thought he was going to break it. “You didn’t wake me then?” he growled. “Mr. Black, I tried...” And I honestly had tried. I maybe could have poured ice cold water over his face but I was just remembering what the doctor had said....
Katherine said. “Back up. Calm down. Listen to me talk. If you don’t... I’ll blow these two to pieces. Then I’ll go find Kellen and put a hole in chest. And finally... you and I will wait for Jonathan to come back. And I’ll make him watch me kill you...
That’s exactly how he worded it too, making it impossible to fall asleep comfortably. He hadn’t acknowledged the idea of us being in trouble, getting in trouble, or doing anything wrong. He kept his arms tight around me, holding me to his body. I hated the position we were in so I managed to roll...
If this was all a business thing, Jonathan taking Kellen down financially, that didn’t bother me. What bothered me was that it still didn’t answer a thing about ‘K’. Jonathan had shattered the cell phone, the only communication I had with ‘K’... and the thoughts pounded at me. What if ‘K’ had...