The third book in my ASH trilogy... (keep in mind, these work best when read in order...)
Law wished he could wipe the images out of his mind as easily as he’d been able to delete them from the damn phone.
He shot a look at the counter where he’d left it.
Then the bottom dropped out of his stomach when he realized it wasn’t there.
“Aw, fuck,” he muttered.
Just then, he heard something.
It was a sound that would haunt him, much like those images.
Snagging his jeans, he hitched them on in seconds and took off. She wasn’t in the bedroom. Not in the hallway. He hit the lights and looked around.
That sound—there it was again.
And there she was.
Sitting down at the foot of the stairs, a look on her face that probably echoed what he’d felt inside when he’d figured out what he was looking at.
His phone was a few inches away from her hand and she was staring at it like she expected it to attack her. Fuck—what the hell, he’d deleted it…oh, shit.
Email. He’d sent it to Ezra and it was in the sent box.
“Nia.”
She didn’t even seem to hear him.
Unsure what to say, how to say it, he came down the steps, knelt on the one just above her. He touched her cheek, but she didn’t react, didn’t move. Sighing, he lifted her feet and sat down on the step across from her. She shifted her gaze to him then and he saw the horror lurking in the golden depths.
Why in the hell did you have to look, baby?
That was what he wanted to ask her.
But he didn’t.
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Congrats on the new release.