Page 63 of Warped

Chapter Twenty-five

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I stayed inside Vee for as long as possible, a part of me terrified this would be the last time I’d ever get to hold her.

I’d tried time and time again to get her to change her mind, but she was resolute. A part of me admired her for her loyalty to a sister who’d shown none for her, while the other part was frustrated. I wasn’t going to change her mind, so I had to support her and do everything in my power to help her. While she might be focused on trying to warn her sister about their father’s release, my focus was only on keeping her alive. I couldn’t imagine a life without her in it. I didn’t know if she felt the same way about me—she had protected her heart, and I understood why—but I would be by her side no matter what.

Against my will, I slipped from her body, signalling the end to our love-making. She climbed off me, and I helped her back into the passenger seat, the movement awkward in the confined space. She flashed me a satisfied grin and bent to gather her clothes. We both dressed quickly, aware we were in a public area and we might be disturbed at any moment. It was one thing being caught in the middle of the act; it was somehow more humiliating just hanging out naked in a car.

Fully dressed, Vee sat back in the passenger seat and took a swig of water from the bottle I had found in the glove compartment. Her cheeks were flushed, her hair mussed up. She was so beautiful. I experienced my love for her like a physical pain, as though someone had punched me in the heart.

I couldn’t lose her. Not now.

“It’ll be dark soon,” she said. “Then we should go to Tony’s house.”

“I assume we’re not just going to knock on the front door?”

“Nope. We’re going to have to be sneakier than that. I know where Nicole will be sleeping. We’ll sneak in over the wall you and Harvey climbed over when you came and got me, and then we’ll break into the house and make our way up to the bedroom.”

“What about the guy she’s having a relationship with? The tutor, Mateo? Do you think she might be staying with him instead?”

She shook her head. “He doesn’t live on site, and there’s no way Tony would let her leave to be with him.”

“So we’re just sneaking in there and telling her your father is free and that it’s not safe for her? What’s going to make her change her mind about leaving? What’s to say she won’t say exactly the same as the last time—that Tony is going to protect her—and refuse to leave.”

“Then I’ll take her by force.”

My eyes widened, my brows lifting. “You can’t be serious, Vee?”

“I am. Deadly. I’ll put a gun to her head and tie her up and carry her out of there if I have to.”

“That’s insane.”

“She’s still a minor, and is still under my charge.”

“You can’t kidnap your own sister.”

Vee leaned back in her seat and folded her arms across her chest. “You’re hardly one to be lecturing me about morals.”

I huffed out a breath in frustration. “Okay, so say we manage to get her out of the house, what then?”

I watched her visibly relax from my acceptance of her plan, her arms unfolding, her shoulders dropping. She might be saying she’d do this on her own, but I could tell from her body language that she’d rather I was with her.

“Then I go back in and kill Tony,” she said. “I know where his room is. He won’t be expecting me to attack him. He’ll be assuming I’ve run now that my father is out.”

“So you think he knows about that?”

She nodded. “Tony has enough ears around. He’ll have found out.”

“Will he have already told your sister there won’t be a trial?”

“Honestly, I don’t know. I’m not sure what he’d gain from telling her. It would only freak her out more. After the shooting, and then me leaving, I imagine he would want to keep her calm until he figures out his next move.”

“And what do you think that’s going to be?”

Her teeth bit into the fullness of her lower lip as she thought, the small gesture causing my cock to stir in my pants again. I didn’t think I’d ever get enough of her. I just hoped we’d both live through this.

“I’m not sure. He’s going to be fucking mad at my father for sending his crew in to shoot up his place. I’m sure he’s pissed that I’ve gone, too, but what my dad did has got to be so much worse.”

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