WASHED AWAY by RC Boldt

Author:RC Boldt [Boldt, RC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RC Boldt Publishing, LLC
Published: 2021-12-06T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 45

LIAM

If I didn’t already have a clue to how fucked I am over her, this proves it.

The moment that asshole had his arm around her throat and I saw her body go limp while I was fighting off the other Russian beast, every fucking thing inside me broke. It’s as if witnessing that put the final crack in my defenses, causing everything to come crashing down.

The surge of adrenaline and fury had me twisting the bastard’s head, reveling in the telltale snap before his body slumped in a heap at my feet.

For the first time, my hands shook, but when Alex’s body went limp in that fucker’s hold, it’d caused him to shift. This enabled me to shoot him in the forehead.

My heart feels like it’s about to beat out of my damn chest just thinking about that moment. Thinking of how close I came to losing her.

I scoop her up in my arms and carry her to the bathroom, ignoring the bite of the small shards of glass beneath my feet. Gently easing her onto the vanity, my fucking hands tremble, and I have to brace them on either side of her before I can start doctoring her wounds.

Even with the bruise blooming on her neck, her knees and shins embedded with glass, and fuck knows how much glass is stuck in the soles of her feet, she’s still the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. The stark white T-shirt I’d loaned her last night is now spattered with blood, but it doesn’t detract from her in any way.

Tremors may still wrack her body, but she’d faced down a killer for me. This badass, brave woman ran into the crosshairs for me.

It was at that moment I thought I was about to lose her. Regardless of her past and where she came from, she’s changed everything for me.

Regardless of what plans I made before, there’s no fucking way I can continue on that path.

I love her. I love the woman with no last name who washed up on my beach. I love the woman who refused to let me try to protect her from those fuckers by myself. The woman who insisted on helping, who jumped into the fray without a second thought.

The woman who’s distraught about me being in danger. Because she cares about me.

She might not love me, but it doesn’t matter. She’ll likely never love me. Worse, even though I’m setting myself on a different path, there’s a better chance of her hating me.

And just like that, my capability to follow through on the promise I made years ago disintegrates before my eyes.

Fuck. My gut twists itself in a knot because no matter what, in the end, there’s only one certainty.

And it doesn’t include Alex.

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