Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,3

fucking stop.”

I hold my breath as Rafe’s high beam headlight hit’s Jeremy’s car, momentarily blinding him as Rafe carries on driving towards him at full speed, the car swerves and I panic that the dick isn’t going to save it in time.

At the last second the fucker straightens the car back out and I release the breath I was holding, loosening my white knuckled grip on the steering wheel.

“Fuck that was close” Rafe breaths out harshly.

“Come on slow the fuck down” Luc is chanting from the car behind us.

I’m about to call it and get Rafe to pull out of the way when Jeremy finally slams on the breaks. The guys react immediately boxing the car in so it can’t go anywhere, I leave the engine on and leap from the car, Riot doing the same as me. He rushes to Ever’s side of the car, yanking the door open. I can’t focus on that right now though, if I do this fucking cunt might escape and after what he’s put Ever through you’ve got to be fucking dreaming if you think we are going to let that happen.

I yank open his door, chuckling as the idiot panics trying to get off his seatbelt. Rafe and Cash flank me as I haul him out of the car just as his seatbelt unsnaps and pin him to the side of the car by his throat. He’s by no means a small guy but he is smaller than me and more to the point I have rage on my side. He hurt our girl. He tried to take her from us. I take a deep breath and push the festering anger aside.

We can’t kill him, too many witnesses. I remind myself.

It should scare me that the thought even crossed my mind but me and the guys have always been a little fucked in the head and there isn’t anything we wouldn’t do for Ever.

“I’m not fucking scared of you, I’m saving her” he whines as he struggles uselessly in my grip.

I glance over my shoulder and share a dark look with Rafe and Cash.

“Saving her from us?” I ask deceptively calm.

“Yes” he spits at me with no sense of self preservation, “if you really cared about her you’d let her leave with me. I can protect her from you” he growls.

I punch him hard in the face, enjoying is yowl of pain as bones crunch under my fist. I pull my fist back to strike him again but Rafe places a warning hand on my shoulder. So instead I ask a question.

“What were you going to do with her?” I ask.

“I was going to set her up somewhere far away from you” he obviously lies, the guy has a seriously shitty poker face.

“He was going to marry me and enjoy breaking me in” Everleigh spits, from the other side of the car.

I don’t dare to look in her direction yet. If I see how bad her injuries are I am not going to be responsible for what I do next. My hand tightens around his throat as my vision tints red with rage. I know perfectly well what he was planning. It makes me sick to my core. I bring my leg up and slam it into his balls so fucking hard he immediately cries out. I let go of his throat as he curls forward and pukes his gut up from the pain. As soon as he’s done I shove him with my booted foot towards Rafe and Cash, they immediately smack him back down. I chose these two to help me deal with this since I thought they would be the ones most able to keep their cool. Jensen loves violence far too much and with someone he cares about being hurt he’s going to be even more deadly, meaning that once he starts he won’t be able to stop. Luc cannot stand a woman being hurt, none of us can but it triggers memories for him and he and Jensen become far more alike than anyone would’ve guessed. Riot is there to keep them busy and stop them from attempting to come over here once they get a good look at whatever that fucker did to Ever. He is the voice of reason in this situation. Looking at my brothers now as we play with Jeremy, I know I’m going to have to desperately keep a grip on that control I’m so fucking famous for because I can see