do this. I’m not that high up.
But I try to move my foot lower, and it slips.
Shit. I can’t do this. I’m going to die.
“Mila?”
I close my eyes and take a deep breath. Knight.
“My knight in shining armor, coming to save me again,” I say nervously.
“I can leave if you prefer.”
“No! I need your help.”
I swear I hear him chuckle, but I don’t look down to know for sure.
“I need you to let go, Mila.”
“What? I’m not letting go. I’ll die if I let go.”
Now I know he’s laughing, but it’s an anxious laugh.
“Look down.”
I hesitantly do and see him holding the rope.
“I got you. You aren’t going to die.”
“I can’t let go.”
“I can come up, but then no one will be belaying you. You’re safer if I’m here, supporting you.”
I take a deep breath. He’s right.
“Trust me; I’ve got you.”
His words again. Dammit.
I slowly let go and grab the rope as he carefully lowers me down. When I almost reach the ground, he cradles me in his arms as I start bawling.
“Shh, you’re okay. I’ve got you. I won’t let you go.”
It doesn’t stop my bawling.
“How did you know where to find me?”
He wipes my eyes as my tears begin to slow. “There is a reason most of my assistants quit. Abri is a bitch. You especially threaten her, so I knew she’d up her game.”
“I could have died. You saved me. You’re always saving me.”
“No, if it weren’t for me she wouldn’t have pulled this crap in the first place.”
“Oh my god, Mila. I didn’t realize you were still up on the mountain. I’m so glad you are okay,” Abri says running up behind us.
Knight’s body stills, holding me tighter against him like he’s a shield between Abri and me.
“Just leave, Abri.”
“I need to apologize. I was just a wreck after I told her how we broke up. I thought Blake tied the rope up before he left. You were perfectly safe.”
“Go, Abri.”
“I need to talk to you first, Ace. We need to talk about our meeting tomorrow and—”
I can’t listen to her talk one more second.
I know Knight doesn’t want anything fake to happen between us. He doesn’t want me to make Abri jealous, but there is nothing fake about what I do.
I grab Knight’s neck and kiss him firmly on the lips, letting my tongue slip into his mouth. He tastes my desperation and terror and pulls me further in showing me how horrified he was in return at seeing me on top of a rock and unable to get down. Our hands tangle in each other’s clothes, and I know this isn’t going to end here. Once we get home, this is going a lot further. Neither of us will be able to stop.
Abri said passion turned to love and then hate. Our hate turned to fear and desperation.
I don’t know if Knight did all of those horrible things to Abri or not. I know if I asked him, he would tell me the truth. But I can’t ask. Not now. I need to find out my own truth. Ace may have treated Abri like shit, but Knight is my savior. I just hope my knight doesn’t turn back into the asshole I thought he was this whole time.
12
Knight
Mila’s kiss knocked all of the air out of me. It took me completely off guard. It suffocated me and set me free at the same time.
I didn’t think I would ever taste her again. I thought that ship had sailed after the way I treated her. I thought her hate for me was stronger than any desire she felt.
I’ve never been happier to be proven wrong.
“If we didn’t have an audience, I would fuck you against the rocks right here,” I whisper against her ear.
She blushes and bites her lip. “I have no objections.”
Now I’m biting my lip, trying to hold back from fucking her into oblivion, while Abri and her boy toys watch. As much as I want to fuck Mila, I’m torn. Because I want to kill Abri just as much.
I tried to downplay how unsafe it was for Mila. Abri claimed Blake tied the rope off when he abandoned Mila, but the rope wasn’t tied up. It was dangling freely in the air as Mila clutched to the face of a steep rock over a hundred feet up.
One wrong move and Mila would have fallen. To her death, most likely. Abri could have killed Mila.
I don’t know if what Abri did was intentional