Lib Novel Page 125
I glanced toward where Thomas watched the interaction. His bloody stare followed Coulter, watching his men leave with him, but not before two of them looked back at Helene on the screen.
“We have a problem,” Thomas murmured. “A very big problem.”
I needed her to pass as a Daughter, but not once had I ever thought anyone would want her contract, not like this. Still, I should’ve known. There was something about her, and it was more than defiance. It was power, a lethal mess that was intoxicating.
I should know.
I’d tasted it a number of times.
A nerve twitched at the corner of my eye. There was no fucking way I was having a piece of shit like Coulter anywhere near her. “So it seems.” I answered my brother before I turned and strode from the room.
Motherfucker…
Goddamn. Motherfucker.
I grabbed my cell as I headed back along the hallway. My fingers raked my hair back. I felt desperate, desperate enough to swipe my fingers across the screen and type out a message:
You’d better have something for me.
Then I hit send, casting it into the black void of nothing.
It may as well be that for all the fucking response I got.
I ground my teeth and stopped walking. The urge to put my fist through the damn wall was overwhelming.
I want her.
Those words swirled inside my head until they were all I could think of. They felt like pebbles thrown into a well, and the ripples echoed in my mind until everything else was stilled.
I want her. I. Want. Her.
My pulse sped.
Her stretched mouth and silent cry of release were all I could see.
Beep.
I jerked at the sound and looked down to my cell.
They’ve received communication to move them.
They’re moving them? Panic and fear moved in. My fingers trembled as I typed.When?
I waited.
And waited.
And…waited.
Still, there was no response, until.
Beep.
That’s for you to find out.
“Fuck.” I whispered, my mind racing.
I needed a way in. Something. I kept on walking, heading back along the corridor until I got to my office, then unlocked the door and stepped in.