Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 71774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 359(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71774 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 359(@200wpm)___ 287(@250wpm)___ 239(@300wpm)
He shakes his head, looking out at the vast land in front of him. “New Law has been ordered not to help you.”
I take another step toward him and now I’m right in front of him, looking up at him with my head bent backwards to see his face. He’s tall and towers over me, but I’m not afraid of him. “You didn’t follow orders from your father when he ordered you to stand aside five years ago.”
He finally tilts his head down to look at me and when his eyes pierce mine, I gasp. The connection I feel for him is strong and it makes me want to tether myself to him. Does he feel it too? Or is it just me, with the feelings like this is it only because he’s the man that saved me so long ago? His eyes are brown, even darker now in the night. But I don’t see any recognition in them. So these feelings must be my own. His voice is low, and I feel like I have to lean in to hear him. “I won’t make that same mistake twice.”
I shake my head and reach out to touch his arm. “You don’t look like you regret what you did. Whereas your brother could hardly look at me. I think he regrets not helping you help me.”
He chuckles then, not believing me. He acts as if everything I just said was wrong. But I know the look of regret and when I saw his brother earlier at the New Law compound, he had that exact look on his face. He may never have admitted it to Klaus, but he’s living with regret.
When he sees how serious I am, he lifts his head back to the night sky. “I won’t help you. Go home or go throw your life away trying to get Mandala, but your business is finished here with New Law and me.”
He walks away from me then and I know he probably expects me to leave. But I don’t. I stand there, looking at him, considering my options.
He’s a handsome man. He’s caring and just from what I know from the past, he’s willing to help those that are in desperate need. Even when I mentioned the ten grand to him, he still wasn’t willing to help me. But I can’t give up. I just have to figure out another way to convince him.
Chapter 6
Klaus
I try to avoid looking at her, but I can’t stop doing it. It’s like I’m drawn to her and I can’t look away. I see the desperation in her eyes. At first I didn’t understand her need to have the necklace back. But now I understand. I get it. Where I have my family around and even though I may not be on the best of terms, I know my brother would have my back if I needed it. Mona doesn’t have that. She doesn’t have any family. I’ve often wondered what became of her when she left here with her family, the Last Omens. From the sounds of it, she might as well had been left on her own. Something twinges in my chest. Being an outsider with her own family had to be hard for her.
But no matter what I feel for her now, she can’t stay. I don’t want to hurt her or scare her, but if Deator gets word that I’m even talking to Mona, he will lose his shit.
I watch her, trying to think of the best way to make her go, but deep down not wanting her to. She has a gleam in her eye and it makes me nervous just seeing it. She’s up to something.
She licks her sexy lips and slides the backpack with the money from her shoulders. She begins to unzip her leather coat. She lets it fall to the ground and she’s standing before me with a white tank top stretched tight across her breasts. Her nipples are hard, like little pebbles pressing against her shirt, begging for attention. She takes two steps toward me and her curvy body presses into me. The tops of her breasts are visible from this angle and her large mounds make my mouth water.
She says something, but damn, I don’t have a clue what it is. When she asks me again, I tear my gaze from her body and look into her eyes.
Her voice is very soft, and I feel myself leaning in to hear her. “You can have me… as long as you want me… for whatever… if you’ll just get that necklace back for me.”
My whole body tightens. A need to have her rolls through my body right before fury takes over. Right now, if I was a lesser man, I would lay her back on this rough terrain and take what she’s offering me. But the fact that she’s offering it only tells me how desperate she is.