Total pages in book: 38
Estimated words: 35763 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 35763 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 179(@200wpm)___ 143(@250wpm)___ 119(@300wpm)
“I don’t want him back on this island.”
“He won’t be,” King responds.
“What the fuck are you two even doing here?” Rich glares at his sister and then turns to Teddy.
“Watch it.”
“Don’t speak to her in that tone.” Both King and I speak at the same time.
“Are you fucking kidding me right now? That’s my sister, and she is pretty much my sister too. This is exactly why they shouldn’t have been down here.”
“I take responsibility,” King says. “This is my operation, and no one should have been able to get into one of these rooms, let alone without one of my men seeing it.”
“If you can be here, I can be here too.” Willa glares back at her brother.
“You won’t come back here.”
“Enough!” King barks. For once, Rich actually keeps his mouth shut, but I'm guessing he wants to continue fighting.
The twins continue to glare at each other, a side of Willa I’ve never seen come out.
I think things have only just started to shake up for the Haven family.
Chapter Twenty-Two
TEDDY
“You ready?” I ask Willa, now that everything has settled down. West is wiping the blood off his hands. I’m sure I have some on me too, and I want to get it washed off. I want to wash all of this away.
“You’re not going with West?” she asks.
“You both can come.” West answers before me.
“We drove here,” Willa points out. “And I don’t drive, so I can’t drive it back.” I’d been thinking that too. I know West isn’t letting me out of his reach right now. I can see it in his eyes, and honestly, I don’t want to be. I’m still a bit shaken up.
“I’ll handle your car,” West says, placing his hand on my hip.
“No one will touch it,” King adds. “And I’ll take Willa home.”
“She can come with us,” I say quickly. I don’t know who this King guy is, but it’s clear he is majorly in charge around here. But that doesn’t mean he’s going to be bossing Willa or me around.
“I want to stay.” Willa takes half a step back. I'm not sure if she even realizes she's doing it. It’s in King’s direction.
“Your brother will lose his mind.” He’s gone to change. I guess when West burst down the door Derrick took me through, people started to notice that something was going on.
“I can do what I want.” Willa's eyes bore into mine, and our conversation from the diner pops right into my head.
“All right, but I want his number.”
“Give me your phone, princess.” Willa hands over her phone to King once it has been unlocked. He navigates to her messages, clicks on my name at the top, and sends it. “Now you have it too.” Her cheeks flush as he hands her the phone back. I suppose that is that.
“You sure?” West asks me.
“Willa can do as she wants.” He nods.
I give Willa a hug, and I let West lead me from the warehouse back to his vehicle.
"I don't want to hide us," I tell him as we make our way back toward home.
"Good," he says, giving my thigh a gentle squeeze, his hand resting there.
“You don’t worry about what might come of this or what others might say?”
“I don’t care, Teddy; there is nothing I want more than you, and I’ll do anything to have you.”
“I love you,” I blurt out.
“Teddy.” He flicks a glance over at me. “You say that when I’m driving and can’t touch you?”
“Sorry, it kind of popped out. Been holding it back.”
“Never hold back from me. I love you too. Think I have from day one.” I place my hand on top of his as he passes through the gate.
"If you're going to your place to grab stuff, I'm coming with you," he tells me when he parks.
“We’ll get all my stuff tomorrow.”
“All your stuff.” West turns to face me.
“Yeah, I’ll talk to my mom. I’m not sneaking around anymore.”
“What if she isn’t happy about all of this?”
“She’ll have to learn to deal.” Mom may be upset or worried, but in time she’ll get over it.
West leans in and kisses me. “Come on. I want to get the blood off of us.”
He takes my hand, leading me inside through the side door. I hear music when we enter, followed by my mom laughing. She must be cooking.
When we step around the corner, I see Jack and my mom dancing. He spins her, and she twirls back, resting her hand on his chest, extremely close. Intimately so. When he leans down to kiss her, I'm pretty sure my mouth drops open.
West and I are both standing there, seemingly in shock.
“How did we miss this?” I whisper to him. He shakes his head, clearly having no clue either.
“Teddy,” my mom gasps. “You scared me.” She looks like a kid who just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. “You and your sneaking around are getting a little out of hand. We might have to put a bell on you.” Her eyes bounce between West and me. “Yes, I know about the two of you.” She rolls her eyes at me.