For the rest of the game, I kept my eyes on him, and the Steelblades won 2-1. I could only hope the Uber driver had lost his bet, though.
“The two of you don’t have to babysit me,” I said irritably to Lucian and Hemsworth after the game was over and I headed out with the rest of the crowd to the bathroom.
“Gabriel said to,” Lucian objected.
“Imagine what he’d do if you weren’t at the car exactly when he wanted you to be?” Hemsworth said with a rueful, twisted grin.
“At least you don’t have to come in and watch me piss,” I snapped. “That’s my husband’s job.”
I walked the last few yards alone to the women’s bathroom, wrinkling my nose up as I did.
Maybe it was because I was pregnant, but my sense of smell had been so sharp lately.
I smelled rot all the time, just below the surface, running like a thread through the manor.
I must be going insane. And if I was it was definitely Gabriel’s fault.
There was a big trash can outside the bathroom, and I was pissed and irritated.
Married, pregnant, controlled and overpowered by my massive husband at every turn.
I kicked the trash can out of my way, and something fell out from behind it, collapsing across my path.
A flash of blonde hair, a red polka-dotted dress.
I started to scream, and I didn’t stop until I blacked out.
CHAPTER 14
Icouldn’t stop shivering.
The way that woman had looked. . .
I smelled a mix of sharp, acrid smoke and cool breeze, as I woke up with a jolt.
Gabriel was in the recessed window seat watching me.
“Good,” he said. “I fucked you once while you were asleep. Now I can fuck you awake.”
“Is it you?” I whispered.
“Is what me?”
“Killing all those women?”
He frowned, making my stomach turn upside-down with fear.
“You thinkI’mgoing around the fucking countryside at 5 am murdering women? That’s some pussy bullshit, Lark.”
“Well? Is it true?”
I couldn’t stop shivering as he stood up, his bulk blocking the flow of autumn light into the room.
“You really think I’m out there hunting women?”
His full lips twisted up in a grin and under the lock of dark hair that fell into his face, I saw the glitter of his psychopathy in those dead dark eyes.
“I think you don’t care who you hurt to get what you want.”
