Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 132657 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 663(@200wpm)___ 531(@250wpm)___ 442(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 132657 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 663(@200wpm)___ 531(@250wpm)___ 442(@300wpm)
“Again with the why?”
He almost had her. “Because if I prove to you I’ve changed, you might give me another chance. I know you don’t believe me but I left you behind to save you. I thought you were in danger, and I knew I couldn’t convince you to leave me.”
“It’s not going to work, Jensen.”
But it kind of was because she’d softened. Her shoulders had come down, and she was looking at him, really looking at him. Now that he was here, this felt right. “I’m willing to take that chance.”
Her gaze went sharp. “I’ll meet you tomorrow.”
“No, you’re moving tonight. I know how you work. You made contact and if you aren’t planning on coming back it’s because you don’t have to. You’re picking her up tonight. Whoever it is, she’ll be in danger.”
“I was planning on coming back,” she explained. “I even told her I would come back so no one would think we were connected, but seeing you here made me rethink because you won’t be able to not give us away.”
“So you’re not moving her tonight?” He stared at her. She gave him nothing. Which gave him his answer. “Where and when? I will give you everything I have, work with whoever you want me to, if you let me help tonight.”
She was quiet for a moment and then her eyes closed and they were hard again when she opened them. “I need you to understand that if you fuck me over this time, I won’t quietly go away. If for some reason you decide to get rid of me, my family will come after you.”
There was the guilt. How could she think that? He loved her. “I would never. Fuck, baby, this is screwed up. Can we please talk?”
“Not about our relationship,” she insisted. “That is off the table and has been for a long time. I need you to understand that if you had showed up at my place, I would have slammed the door in your face. But I do want to take this whole group down, and if you give me information, I don’t have to get it from my client. I’m moving her tonight at two this morning.”
“After her shift ends.” He nodded. He believed that she believed she would shut him down, but he still felt the connection between them. He could fix this. “I can leave early. I’ll be at The Hideout when the club closes. That will give me time to get together some information. I’ll be your partner in this. We can do this together. There will be fallout from whoever you’re extracting, but I can handle it.”
“It would be better if I came back with my Dom. It might be weird if I spend time with her and then she disappears.”
“Please tell me it’s Miranda.”
She nodded slightly.
He breathed a sigh of relief. This was one good thing that might come out of it. “Good. She wouldn’t survive upstairs. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get her out of here before they sink their hooks in.”
“You could get her arrested,” Harlow said with an eye roll.
Brat. “How about we concentrate on getting Hamilton.”
She took a long breath and sighed. “Yes. I’ll give you the address to the club.”
“I know it.” He was going to have to confess at some point. “I was curious.”
But not tonight. He needed to talk to Niall.
“I’m going to go back to the lounge. My boyfriend’s waiting. You better be nice to him. He’s the best man I’ve met in forever. It’s one of the reasons I’m agreeing to this plan. I’m worried about him. He’s not used to places like this. It’s going to be hard on him. He’s a good man.”
And Jensen wasn’t. He got what she was saying. He belonged here. The trouble was here was danger, and Harlow was attracted to it. She couldn’t stay away from it. She found it wherever she looked and got tangled in it at all times. She didn’t need a good man. She needed a man who could watch her back.
Like you let her watch yours?
“We can talk about it at The Hideout tonight.” He would be able to get a measure of this boyfriend of hers. Niall would tell him all about it after they had a talk about why he’d never mentioned the man at all.
She nodded. “I’ll be there.”
So would her whole family. At least the ones from the club.
He would deal with it.
She turned and opened the door. “Hello, Master.”
She shut the door behind her.
It took everything he had not to go after her and introduce himself.
He took a deep breath and forced himself to sit down. He wasn’t going to go to the security office and look through the cams. He was going to be a fucking adult, one who damn straight knew he wouldn’t have a chance with her if he didn’t start to show her some trust.