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“I don’t even know where my phone and bag is.” She frowned.

“It doesn’t matter. We’ll get you new stuff.”

“I think my car is totaled.” She started to cry again. “The police had it towed away.”

Braeden and I exchanged looks. The police.

“Don’t worry about the car, sweetheart. It’s okay.”

Rimmel cuddled back into my chest, pulling her knees up with her. Her clothes were kinda light considering it was dark out and it was cold out at night. Why the fuck was she out at night?

Alone.

Then I remembered. I cleared my throat and forced out the words. “Didn’t you have a doctor appointment today?”

“Yes, and I didn’t even get my vitamins!” Her voice wobbled, and she sniffled. Oh fuck, did the appointment not go well?

“So this was after the appointment?” I questioned. I had no idea where to even start.

“It wasn’t an accident,” she intoned, tipping up her head to look at me while wiping away her tears. “They ran me off the road. The police have already been here.”

Braeden’s eyes narrowed, and we glanced at each other once again.

“Who ran you off the road?” I asked carefully.

“The paparazzi,” she replied, flat. “They ambushed me when I walked out of the doctor’s office.”

I was going to need blood pressure medicine before I left this fucking sick ward. I took a steadying breath; I didn’t want her to feel my extreme need to do bodily harm.

“Explain, Rimmel.”

So she did. She told us everything.

Every goddamn detail.

Rimmel

It wasn’t often Romeo was speechless.

In fact, usually, he wasn’t at a loss for words. If anything, he just bellowed the F-word and as many other foul things he could think of.

Right now, he was quiet.

Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.

I wasn’t scared of him. I wasn’t intimidated either, but in this moment, I saw why others often were. Romeo was not a man you wanted to piss off. He was levelheaded. He could be reasoned with.

But…

There was a point when a man like him had enough.

Sort of like when a bitch just snaps. Except guy style.

I hadn’t seen Romeo reach this point very often. He’d come very close when Zach was torturing us and we ended up in the hospital. Even then, he’d acted semi-responsibly and allowed the police to deal with him.

After he knocked him out and busted up his face of course.

Oh, and got him kicked out of Alpha Omega.

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