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“I’m glad you decided to come tonight.”
I look up at him and meet his intense eyes. They seem darker than they did earlier, but I put it down to there being no light this far away from the party. “Me, too.”
He stops us and brushes his fingers down my cheek. “I’ve been wanting to do this all night.” And then his lips are coming down on mine. My first kiss, and it’s with the captain of the football team.
I fumble for a moment, trying to catch my balance as his kiss deepens, but he just drags me against him, holding me steady.
The warmth from the alcohol seems stifling now as his body presses into mine, but there’s no way I’m pulling away now.
He presses me against the tree beside us, trapping me between his hard body and the rough bark, but I’m too lost in our kiss to care. At least until his hand moves up under my shirt, brushing over my bare skin.
I startle and try to break the kiss, but he shoves me backward more forcefully, his lips and teeth becoming rougher with each swipe.
Suddenly the heat is replaced with a cold sweat as the reality of my situation washes over me.
I just allowed a guy I didn’t know to get me drunk and walk me far away from the party, where he could do anything to me, and I would have no witnesses, other than those that saw me laughing and smiling at everything he said all night.
He can do anything he wants to me, and I won’t have a leg to stand on.
“Jack, slow down,” I plead between his kisses, trying desperately to shove against his chest but to no avail.
“Hold still,” he growls, capturing my hands in one of his and shoving them up above my head. The bark of the tree digs into my wrists, but he doesn’t seem to care.
Jack’s free hand pushes back up under my shirt and grasps my breast in a rough hold, making me cry out.
“You like it rough, huh?” he snarls. “I bet you do. I bet the police commissioner’s daughter has a dark side she’s begging to unleash.”
I shake my head. “No. I don’t. I don’t want that.”
“Too bad.” He throws me to the ground, and before I can even think of crawling away from him, his body comes down on top of mine.
Why aren’t I fighting back? Why is my body frozen even though I know self-defense? Even though my father has been drumming it into me for years?
Jack’s hands settle at the button of my jeans as he easily undoes them and shoves them down my legs despite how hard I kick.
I feel around the dirt for something,anything,to defend myself with, and when my fingers grasp around a large rock, I let out a stuttering breath.
Jack comes back down on top of me, one hand holding him up while the other unbuckles his belt, and I know this is my only chance.
I take a deep breath, lift the rock, and slam it into his temple as hard as I can manage.
His weight collapses on top of mine, crushing me no matter how hard I try to push, he’s too heavy for me to shift.
Footsteps crunch through the pine needles, but I can’t see who’s coming. What if all this was for nothing? What if someone is coming to finish off the job?
“Leighton?” a familiar voice says a moment before Jack’s weight is lifted from me.
Jason Collins stands over me with worry in his eyes. He crouches down and touches my wrists where Josh was holding me a little too tight, and rubs gentle circles into them before checking Jack’s pulse.
His eyes widen as he turns back to me. “He’s dead.”
CHAPTERFIFTY-FIVE
WYATT
“This is fucking bullshit.” I slam my palm against the brick wall, unsurprised when I don’t feel the pain. I stopped feeling twelve hours ago when we realized we were being set up by the father of the woman we love.
I should have believed her when she said he was a bad man, but I was too fucking cocky. I thought he couldn’t touch us, not when the Legion is in our back pocket, but that seems very fucking irrelevant right now.
