Page 39 of Bound by Adoration

Three days? Three fucking days and those assholes would be here to get me? Trembling started in my hands, and I sat on them so the guys wouldn’t see.

Raid stood abruptly, looking down at Liam, fury like no other bubbling out of him. “Three fuckin’ days, and you didn’t think to tell me that before we parted and came here?”

Liam was calm in the face of Raid’s anger. It was admirable because Raid was a force to be reckoned with. “I didn’t know who’d be listening in that office. That fucker is good. Knows all the right people and with him here in Sumner, he already has hooks into a lot of people. I guarantee it. It’s his MO.”

“So, they’ll be here in Sumner in three days?” I asked again, freaked but needing another confirmation.

“No, a couple of towns over in Tifton. They only have a radius for you,” Liam informed.

Raid spoke, sitting back down and fully turning his body to Liam and me. “So, we have a small bit of time to plan. This is good. What else did that fucker tell you?”

“Just that they were coming. Starting in Tifton doing a sweep then spanning out. He was fuckin’ giddy that they’d ‘finally find her.’ Asshole.” My stomach was in damn knots. No one was going to find me, dammit.

“You do realize he’s going to die, right?” Raid asked Liam, brow tipped in question.

“I know. Him and a lot of others. But if Hamilton is here, he won’t have the security set up he has back in Atlanta. He’ll be on the fly. Three days tells me that he’s trying to set his operation up enough to a point where he feels protected. We need to make it so he’s not.”

“I need to call my brothers. Get a plan hatched out,” Raid said, pulling his phone out of his leather cut.

“This is becoming too real. I’m gonna puke,” I told them, folding over so my cheek rested on my knee, my stomach rolling over itself.

Both Liam and Raid moved over, sitting next to me now, their heat surrounding me. Each of their hands rubbed up and down my back trying to soothe. It felt good, but this information was a lot to take in and didn’t take away all the questions and fear inside.

Now Raid was going to call his club and get all of them involved, putting everyone in danger. It would be so much better if I weren’t even here. Then the threat would be gone. Poof. All their lives could go back to normal. It was wrong of me to stay.

There were only a few people on this planet who gave a shit whether I was here or not. And those were the only ones I cared that lived a happy life. If the Hamiltons got their hands on them, they’d be used to get to me. Tortured. Hurt. Dead.

These two men without a doubt would put everything on the line for me. I wasn’t worth the trouble. All I did was bring people pain and fear. If I wasn’t here, they could move on and find women who they could freely love. They both deserved to have these full lives.

With me out of the picture, everything could fall in place. Lives could return to normal. The Hamiltons wouldn’t be a threat anymore, because I wouldn’t be some prize they thought they’d own.

Raid and Liam might miss me for a while, but after a bit, they’d be able to carry on with their lives. They’d be alive. Happy. They could meet someone. Maybe have a family and get to be the one who grows old.

Me. After everything I’d been through, what did I have to give anyone? A smart ass mouth and attitude? I’d always been scraping by just trying to stay in the shadows, away from the three men who terrorized me.

If I was no longer breathing … no threat.

Everyone would be safe.

And maybe I could see my mom again.

Who knew what happened after death, but there had to be something afterward. Right? Some place where people could see each other again. That was happy and away from the pain.

All this drama could be done today.

I was tired of running. I was tired of giving up everything over and over again. Rebuilding my life to have it ripped out from under me. All I’d ever done was work hard, but where’d it get me?

Back in the same situation I was in all those years ago.

I wouldn’t go back to them.

No matter what.

But I could cut the snake off at the head if I just ended it.

Tears rolled down my face and splashed to the floor as my breathing picked up.

No. My soul didn’t want to leave these men, but it was for the best. The best for them.

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