Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 138588 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 693(@200wpm)___ 554(@250wpm)___ 462(@300wpm)
And no one had eyes on him and Sabrina. Even the asshole they’d put on the door was watching Wayne and Wyatt.
Sabrina leaned in as though afraid. She cried and put her head down. The sight in front of her was simply too much for a small-town schoolteacher.
She used the ruse to start in on the zip ties.
Even in this situation he thought she was so fucking hot. He wouldn’t blame her if she had cried out of pure fear, but no, his honey pretended so she could give them an important advantage. Lark pretended to be in love with him to give Sid and Gil a chance to run.
If they had an army of daughters, he would be cool with it. They could take over the world, and he would be there to fix them a drink after their long days of taking down the bad guys.
“Go and check the supply closet,” Wayne said, nodding to two of the men in the back. “It’s obvious someone fucked up.”
Where Henry and Elisa would even out the odds a little more. They’d gone in the back, and it was obvious they were already at work. He kept his eyes up, but worked his wrists over the knife Lark had managed to get to Sabrina.
Something was happening or Elisa wouldn’t have allowed Wyatt to come out and face his brother. She would have tried to buy them more time.
Elisa would have gotten into the office and sent Gil and Sid to the roof and then down to safety. She would find a way to let Nate know what was going on.
Nate was going to be here. He would come in guns blazing because there was no other way to handle this situation. They’d mitigated the damages as much as they could, but they were outnumbered.
He had to protect Sabrina and figure out how to get Wyatt away from his brother. If Wyatt was close when the shit went down, Sawyer knew his brother would rather not go out alone. He would try to take Wyatt with him.
That son of a bitch had ruined Wyatt’s life enough. He wasn’t going to take him down. He wasn’t going to take Wyatt. Sawyer needed Wyatt because Wyatt seemed like a man who wouldn’t mind changing diapers, and Sabrina was obviously a career woman who would need support.
No one was taking Wyatt because he was a part of Sawyer’s family.
And the diaper stuff. He wasn’t sure how good he’d be at the stinky part, but he was ready to face it because he wasn’t alone.
He would be if Wayne murdered Wyatt.
“You want to tell me where you actually stashed Dennis Hill and maybe we can talk about how fast I kill you,” Wayne offered.
Sawyer felt the zip ties start to give. He kept his hands under the table, hoping no one could see Sabrina sawing away.
“I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.” Wyatt sounded strong and sure. “I gave you his body.”
“You gave me someone’s. As I recall it was too burned to be recognizable. At the time I bought your story about him starting the fire when he realized what was happening, but now I wonder.”
Sawyer was almost there, almost all the way through the zip ties when the big guy named Doug approached.
“Hey, you sit up,” he ordered Sabrina’s way.
Her head lifted, and she sniffled. “I can’t watch. You can’t expect me to watch you hurt him.”
“Leave her alone,” Wyatt ordered, and there was a little shake to his voice. Rage. He was fighting it.
“Hey, she’s fine,” Sawyer said. “Babe, you need to sit up and let him see you’re fine. He’s on the edge.”
She sniffled and managed to move the knife to her side, slipping it under the folds of her skirt. “I’m not fine. I can’t watch them hurt him.”
He kept his hands under the table. Sabrina had sawed through enough of the hard plastic bindings that he could break them when he needed to, but they weren’t ready for an all-out assault. They needed a distraction.
How long before Nate made it here?
Wayne grabbed Wyatt by the neck, a vicious hold on him. “You think I’m going to hurt you? You can take pain, little brother. I taught you how to do that a long time ago. Daddy taught us both how to take it so we never open our mouths to the cops about the Horde. He taught you not to betray your family. I guess the lesson didn’t take.”
He needed to get them all out of here. He needed something that would make these guys panic. In the chaos he might be able to get Sabrina and Wyatt out.
But it might cost him. Would cost him if he did what he was thinking about doing.
He glanced over at Lark, who had been watching him as though she’d known he would have a plan.