Total pages in book: 95
Estimated words: 90433 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 452(@200wpm)___ 362(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 90433 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 452(@200wpm)___ 362(@250wpm)___ 301(@300wpm)
911 tire shop.
Spec wouldn’t need anything else. He’d get there fast and come armed to the teeth. Hell, he’d probably show up in a fucking tank.
Ty opened his office door and stepped into the lobby.
Kelsie’s fear was a hundred times worse outside his office. She breathed fast and loud, sounding near hyperventilating. The force of her trembling rattled the bracelets on her wrist. Each time they clanked, his heart cracked.
Would this fear set her back to the way she’d been in the early days after they’d rescued her?
God, he hoped not, but if so, this time, he’d be there to hold her all day and night.
“Tyler!” Tinsley sounded almost giddy. “Welcome to the party. Sorry, I dinged your girl up a bit, but she has something important to say to you.”
He kept his eyes on the man holding the gun. “You’re a dead man, Tinsley.”
“Hey! I said Kelsie has something to say. Don’t fucking interrupt. I’m so sorry, sweetheart. Say what you came here to say.”
What the fuck?
Was he crazy?
Kelsie’s eyes widened, and she shook her head.
“Kelsie, what did we talk about?” Tinsley grabbed her upper arm so hard she winced.
Fuck this. Ty stepped forward.
“Nuh-uh-uh.” Tinsley jammed the gun against her temple. It made her flinch, but this time, Ty kept his anger in check.
Kind of.
He curled his fingers into tight fists. The pain of ramming them into Tinsley’s face would feel fantastic.
“Tinsley,” Jinx barked in his most commanding tone. “Fucking leave now, and maybe we won’t kill you, but if you drag this out another second, you’ll be leaving here in a body bag.”
“Shut the fuck up!” Tinsley screamed.
Kelsie jumped.
“Let my fiancée speak.”
He jabbed the gun against the side of her head again. Her whimper would haunt Ty’s nightmares for years to come.
Kelsie’s eyes met his. Another round of tears spilled. He clenched his teeth so hard that they squeaked. Kelsie shook her head.
Whatever it was Tinsley was forcing her to say, she didn’t want to say it. Which meant it would probably hurt Ty to hear it. Nothing mattered right then but her safety. She could call him every name in the book and curse him for life, and he wouldn’t blink.
He placed a hand over his heart. “I love you,” he mouthed, then spoke out loud. “Go ahead, Kels, say what’s on your mind.”
A sob tore from deep inside her. “I-it’s over. I don’t want you anymore.”
He tilted his head and rolled his shoulders. It felt like an impossible task, but he tried to relax his stance in hopes of giving Kelsie an ounce of relief. Of course, he didn’t believe a word she spoke as a psycho held her at gunpoint.
“Why?” Tinsley asked, a sick gleam in his eye. “Why don’t you want him?”
“I-I’d rather be with A-Andrew.”
Tinsley rotated his head, grinning at Ty as though any of this was real and he’d won. “Keep going.”
Kelsie shook her head.
This time, Tinsley smacked the side of her head with the gun, drawing a pained cry from her.
Both Ty and Jinx charged forward.
“I’ll fucking shoot her,” Tinsley shouted before anyone could reach him. “I’ll fucking do it.”
They froze.
“Speak.”
“O-okay,” she said around her sobs. “Ty, I’m sorry, but you can’t satisfy me as well as A-Andrew does. He… he’s just more man than you, and I need that. N—” She shut her unswollen eye and then whispered. “No one has made me come as hard as he does.”
It’s not true. It’s not true.
Even knowing she only spewed this bullshit to stay alive, it cut fucking deep, and it had to be killing her to speak those words.
What now? What did Tinsley want from him? What would end this the fastest? Should he rant and rave? Is that what this was? Did the man want to see him lose his cool? Or should he remain calm and let Kelsie go without a fight?
For show.
He’d only let her go for real if his heart stopped beating.
“Did you hear that, Tyler? She doesn’t want you. Your dick isn’t enough for her.”
There was another avenue he could take.
“Bullshit.”
Jinx snorted.
“What?” Tinsley said, eyes wide and wild, darting between him and Jinx.
“You heard me.” It was Ty’s turn to smile, and he let all his hatred and fury bleed into it. He probably looked as insane as Tinsley himself. “But I’ll say it again. Bull-fucking-shit. Kelsie wouldn’t touch you with a gun held to her head.” He winked.
He could practically feel some of the tension bleed out of Kelsie as she listened to his words. Had she really worried he’d believe that horse crap?
“She thinks you’re disgusting, Andrew.”
Jinx could strike if he could get Andrew angry enough to distract his attention away from Kelsie even for a second. Going for the man’s flimsy ego seemed the quickest way to divert his attention.
“The fuck did you say?” Tinsley took his eyes off Kelsie, but the gun remained. Neither of them could act with the chance of her getting shot so high. He needed to enrage the man. He needed him to get so pissed he turned that gun on Ty. Taking a bullet in exchange for Kelsie’s safety was a no-brainer.