CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
Petra
I took in a deep breath and kept my eyes closed.
I knew the bed beside me was empty without having to look.
Still, my hand reached out to feel the cold, wrinkled sheets.
If he were here, I would have felt him against me. Every time I spent the night in his bed it had been that way and there was no reason for this to be different. Even if it was the first time I’d let him into mine.
I realized that sometimes it was hard for me to read people when emotions were involved. However, that wasn’t the case last night. Iron had never needed me before. I had always been the one that needed him. Deep down I knew that, even if I had a hard time admitting it to myself.
There were things he was deliberately keeping from me. Normally, I would have said something because I never did see the point in hiding things. It only made problems bigger. But seeing his soul being torn in two had stopped me from opening my mouth.
If I wasn’t mistaken, I saw a finality in his eyes when he fucked me.
It bothered me, it did.
But it was something I was going to have to deal with later.
Opening my eyes, I sat up and rolled the stiffness out of my body. I could still feel his touch on me like he was right there.
My legs slid off the edge of the bed and I slowly pushed myself up until I was standing.
Bending down, I picked up my shoes and went to put them neatly away in the closet.
Then I went to get ready for what was ahead.
“Did you tell him?” Garen asked as I walked into my living room. He was casually sitting on the couch, one leg resting on the other and a cup of coffee in his hand.
“No,” I answered as I made my way to the elevator. “Why would I?”
With a deep, disappointed sigh, he got to his feet and followed me inside the elevator.
My question wasn’t one that I wanted an answer to. My tone was sharp and Garen knew well enough by now that I didn’t want to hear what he thought on the matter.
Thanks to Rowan, we were able to have a private jet take us where we needed. I wasn’t one for thank yous, but I owed her husband one.
There was a car waiting for us when we landed and I drove us the two hours to our destination.
“Are you sure about this?” Garen asked me as I parked around the back of the small, ugly, brown building.
I cut my eyes over to him and he gave me a nod that let me know he understood me.
The car was so close to the building that Garen had to crawl over and get out of the driver’s side
“You could have let me out before you did that,” he mumbled under his breath.
He pulled out his gun as we walked around the building to the front door.
The world was dark around us and there was no one around.
The town had a small population and most of the homes were spread out. The little sheriff’s office was set in the middle of everything. The only other buildings around were a family restaurant, a grocery store, and a gas station that looked like it was about to fall down. And all of them were shut down for the day.
The bell above the door jingled as I stepped inside. I knew it wouldn’t be long before one or more of the men would come running out of the back to check who it was.
Midori had given me the information I needed. She slyly asked her sister questions to make sure that nothing had changed over the years she’d been gone.
