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I spun on him; my jaw clenched. “I need to have words with Raine right fucking now.”
“Bailey wouldn’t want this, Grim,” Poe rasped as he sprinted around the corner.
I seriously thought a vein was going to burst in my neck. “Look, if Bailey wants to be with him, fine. But if this asshole is forcing her to then nah, that’s not gonna fly with me.”
Saint shook his head. “If she says she can handle him, then we have to trust her.”
Had everyone lost their fucking minds? “Bailey is our little fox. Our good girl. Who the fuck does Raine think he is claiming any right to her?”
“He claimed her first,” Poe murmured.
Every muscle in my body tensed. “What the fuck did you just say, Poe?”
“You heard me.” He went and sat down on the bed. “Raine pushed her into the door. He wanted her to let us out. He’s the reason we’re free.”
No fucking way. “So we owe him now or something?”
Saint leaned against the doorway, taking up the whole frame. “No, we don’t. Poe’s just pointing out that Raine has every right to pursue her the same way we did. And if Bailey is okay with that, then we have to be too. No matter his methods.”
I was going to break something if I didn’t exhale soon. “I need a fucking drink.” I blew past Saint, shoving him out of the doorframe before charging downstairs.
When I got to the sitting room, my adrenaline surged again as I locked eyes with Raine. A sleazy smirk pulled at the corners of his lips. I looked him up and down, taking stock of his tall frame. We were at eye level, but his body was bigger than mine. His eyes were a shade of bluish-green, like sea glass. And his sandy blonde hair was tousled with a slight wave to it. Tattoos covered almost every inch of his body that I could see. He leaned casually against the bar in a white T-shirt and jeans.
I was ready to spit fucking venom at this asshole but a part of me didn’t even want to believe he was real. Now that we were face to face… I was speechless.
“Grim in the flesh,” Raine drawled. “Here, brother, I heard you might need this.” He held out a glass of whiskey.
“I’m not your brother.” I snatched the glass from his hand, knocked the whiskey down my throat, and offered the empty glass back to him. “Another.”
Raine chuckled as he poured me a refill. “So what’s got your panties in a twist? You jealous? Kind of ironic actually.”
I took the glass and backed up a few steps, so he was out of strangling reach. “What are your intentions with Bailey?”
Raine plopped himself down on the couch, relaxed and at home like he owned the place. I guess technically he did. “I know she calls you daddy but now you actually sound like one. Is this where you give me the birds and the bees talk?”
The look of amusement on his face was infuriating. “Fuck off. You know what I’m asking. Bailey has been through a lot, and she doesn’t need you toying with her.”
Raine’s eyes darkened. “You have no idea… Don’t you want to know why I find this ironic?”
I forced my muscles to unclench and took a seat across from him on the opposite couch. “Not really but something tells me you’re going to tell me anyway.”
“For starters, you, Poe, and Saint were fucking my wife in my bed. Before she murdered you like she did me, of course. So, no hard feelings mate. If anything, that bonds us, don’t you think?” Raine leaned back, draping his arm across the back of the couch. He looked so fucking smug.
I mimicked his movements as I glared back at him. “Ah, yes. Bonded by poison and pussy. So you’re the jealous one, is that it? Pissed that your wife crawled into bed with us before your dead body was even cold? Now you want a piece of Bailey to even it up.”
Raine shook his head. “I didn’t want my fucking wife. She was fucking crazy. What I want with Bailey has nothing to do with any of that.”
It was my turn to chuckle. “I don’t believe you and I definitely don’t fucking trust you.”
He shrugged. “Fuck if I care. You’re just pissed that there’s a part of Bailey that you can’t reach. And I can.”
The way he said her name stirred a possessiveness in me that I hadn’t felt in a long time. “I won’t let you hurt her.”
Raine stood abruptly, his eyes full of malice. “That’s for Bailey to decide. You three may have awakened her dark side, but I’m the one who can show her how to embrace it. She’s caught between two worlds, her old life and this one. Let me help her leave the past behind for good.”
He wasn’t making sense. Every word out of his mouth was vague or cryptic. And yet a part of me knew that he spoke some sense. Bailey had grown distant and withdrawn. There were things she was keeping from us. I stood from the couch and stalked over to him till I was just inches away. “You might be right, but I still don’t trust you.”
Raine leaned forward, our noses almost touching. “In time, we’ll all be one happy family. You’ll see, Grim. And when I’m done breaking her open, you’ll thank me for what you find inside.”
