Page 67 of Savage Scream

@trav_theman

I need to see you. Come out the front of the swim complex. Alone.

My brows shoot up, and I glance back at Dee.

“So you got this message, and you went out there? Thinking it was him?”

She nods.

“But it was his foster mum?”

She nods.

“Was Travis there at all?”

She shakes her head and starts pacing again.

“So that was the one and only Bianca Kerr, and she used Travis’ phone, or his account at least, to lure you out there?”

She nods again and then shakes her head before coming to a stop and frowning. Then she turns back to me, her face a mask of pain as she parts her lips to speak.

“Do you think Travis was in on it?”

I fly up off the mattress and tug her to my chest, wrapping my arms around her.

“No. No, I don’t. He’d never do that to you. I know things have been strained between you, but he’d never hand you over to his foster mum. Never.”

Nodding against my chest, Dee relaxes in my embrace, slowly slipping her arms around me and returning the hug.

“She said some things… I’m so confused.” Dee’s voice is so quiet. Almost like she’s scared someone will hear her admission.

I pull back and tilt her chin up to me. “What did she say?”

She opens her mouth to speak, but then snaps it shut again and shakes her head before burying her head in my chest again.

Shit.

I walk backwards with Dee still in my arms, and when the backs of my legs hit my mattress, I ease down, taking Dee with me. I settle us against my pillows, and she snuggles into my side, holding me tight like she’s scared I’ll disappear.

Shit. I’ll never disappear on her… but she will on me. That day is drawing closer and closer and I just wish time would stand the fuck still for once.

I just want it to stop and give me an eternity of holding Dee in my arms.

Is that so much to ask?

20

DEE

Griffin and the Angels look rightfully confused as I enter the private bar upstairs at the Red Room, with Jared on my tail. I’d sent them a message asking them to meet me, and I also asked Griffin to bring his woman. I’m not sure why I asked her to come, only that I feel like she is a decent person, and I could use her support.

I smirk when I see how Griffin stands in front of her as if he’s trying to shield her from my wrath.

Idiot.

I don’t have any qualms with him or her, but he doesn’t know that yet.

The Angels, however? Well, they have a lot of fucking explaining to do, unless Bianca Kerr was lying to try to turn me against them.

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