Page 141 of The Valiant Knight
“How badly are you hurt?” he asked.
Finn wasn’t going down. Apparently, he was the only one who could protect Gabby.
She was in danger.
“I’m good,” Finn said.
But he wasn’t.
It still horrified him that he’d been rough with her. That wasn’t him, and he’d never scare a woman like that. He’dnever make Gabby fear him. He was tenuously trying to build something with her.
“What were you doing up here?” he asked.
Gabby explained.
“I wanted to see if there were any more pages to the book. You found those two, and I wanted to find more. Only, we didn’t. We found a journal from a Rebecca Granndach.”
She hadn’t dropped that at least.
Graham pushed things out of the way, trying to clear the debris. When he saw Finn, he looked panicked.
Really scared.
“We should call the doctor,” he said. “I can get him back here.”
Finn didn’t need a doctor.
He needed a confessional. The gravity of what he did was coming back to him, and that was now haunting him too.
“I hurt her,” Finn said.
He lifted a brow.
“What?”
Finn told him.
“I blacked out, and I forced myself on her. I have to go,” he said. “I can’t be in here right now,” he stated, and shoved past Graham to get out of here. The only reason he was leaving her was that she’d be safe with Graham.
He hoped.
When he was gone, Graham was worried.
“Lass, are you okay? Do you need me to do something? Did he force you?”
God.
She was worried about him.
“He kissed me. That’s all. It just wasn’t Finn. I kissed him before, but this…this wasn’t good. Something bad is here.”
The door slammed shut, and they both jumped.
Thank God it didn’t have a lock.
Oh, he could tell that whatever was here wasn’t amused by any of them. From the falling dishware to the lake incident, bad mojo was happening.
“Something bad happened in here,” she said, telling him. “I think this all has to do with Ceit. She wasn’t jumping to her death, but instead, I think she was pushed.”
