Page 113 of Break

My chest is caving in on itself, compressing my lungs, and I’m struggling to breathe. We all know that Harrow didn’t break down. If they’d been in an accident, someone would have found them by now. The hospital would have called the station the moment they saw it was a squad car.

I know in my gut that Danny has Mina. Harrow is going to suffer for helping take her away from me.

I’m going to fucking kill Danny Reed.

Chapter 49

RAGE

Danny

“Danny…”

Her fucking voice scrapes over every inch of my skin, and I want to dig my nails into my arms to get the feeling to go away.

“Shut. The fuck. Up!” I scream at her. I just need her to shut her whore mouth for five minutes so I can think. Digging the side of my fist, holding my father’s knife next to my eye, I try to think things through. But everything is a fucking mess. It’s so fucked up.

Stomping across the living room of Andy’s cabin, I come to a stop a foot in front of where my fucking wife is cowering on the floor. “HOW COULD YOU, YOU BITCH?”

Thank God for Andy. I met him at a business event. He was dating one of the women there, and we hit it off. When Ethan, Max, and Vincent stopped coming around as much, he and I began to hang out. He’s been my sounding board for years when it comes to the problems Mina has caused. It was just my luck that he was brought in to investigate me.

Getting a heads up on their plans and where Mina has been staying has been priceless. I owe him everything. There’s no place I could have stayed that the cops wouldn’t have thought to look. His cabin was the perfect place since no one really knew of our friendship.

Curling my lip at Mina, I release a screech of frustration. All she ever does is cower. But her sob is music to my ears. Sheshouldbe crying. She’s betrayed me and threw away everything, ruining my life. All fortheircocks.

Jabbing a finger in her direction, I can’t stop from snarling at her. “Iknewyou’d always go for the first cock you could find. Little precious Christian Mina was always a mask, wasn’t it? You’d barely spread your legs for me, but forthem?” Holding my hands out to the side and tilting my head back, I scream, “YOU JUST OPEN RIGHT THE FUCK UP!”

“P-Please. You need to calm down.Please, Danny,” she chokes out, and I see fucking red.

Dropping to my knees in front of her, I grab her hair at the back of her head and jerk her face up to mine. “Calm down? How the fuck am I supposed to get out of this? Huh? How the fuck does my life go on from here? All I ever wanted was for you to do as you were told. Do what youpromisedyou’d do.”

Throwing her to the side and away from me, I stand back up and begin to pace again, ignoring her shriek. She stays silent, thankGod,so I can process what I’m going to do.

Stopping, I look back down at the woman who was supposed to be mine. Whoismine. “You know, they were all right about you.”

Pushing herself back up, she hangs her head, probably ashamed that I know what kind of person she is now. I want to fucking hurt her the way she hurt me.

My foot moves before I know it, kicking the side of her thigh, and I’m disappointed when she only sucks in a breath instead of crying out.

“My parents knew you weren’t good enough for me. They knew you’d cause me problems down the road. Mom always calls after we see them to tell me how disappointed she was when she’d see you. You never treated them like family. Just your presence around them would put a damper on our evening. It’s why I could never take you to my work events. All you do is embarrass me.”

I don’t hold back my sneer when she doesn’t react to my words. My eyes shoot around the cabin, looking for something, but I don’t know what I need.

Talking more to myself, I leave her and start to yank drawers open, searching forsomethingI can use to hurt her.

“You know, the guys never had anything good to say about you, either. They’re just pissed at me and using you to get under my skin. From the moment they met you, they couldn’t stand you. You were this annoying little bug under our shoes, and every time you showed your face, they’d whisper how much of a loser you were. Did you know they tried to talk me out of marrying you?”

My wife only shakes her head in answer, still saying nothing.

Nodding quickly, I smile at the memory. “They did. That night of my bachelor party, they tried to talk me out of it. Told me you were only using me for my money and that I could do better. That Ideservedbetter. But your pathetic fatherbeggedme to get you out of his house. Fucking paid me too. Not nearly enough. Even he knew you weren’t worth more than a few thousand dollars.”

The last drawer I yank open, my eyebrows rise when I see the handgun partially buried under some receipts and other junk. Pulling it out, I check and see that it’s loaded. I’m not sure what I want to do with it yet, so I set it on the top of the table carefully, and then slide the drawer closed.

“D-Danny, I-”

Storming over to her, I forget the gun and grab her upper arm, hauling her to her feet. I drop the knife to the floor so I can use my other hand to hold her out in front of me. I’m so furious at her that I can’t stop my fingers from digging into her skin.

When she winces, I flash my teeth at her. Running my eyes down her body, I snort in disgust and shove her away from me. “You got so fucking fat with them. Let me guess, Max moved you into his house, and you just sat in the pantry eating everything in sight? That was always your problem growing up, too. You could never restrain yourself. You see food, you eat it. You see money, you want it. You see cock, you fuck it.”

---