Chapter 2

Terrence Klein shifted in the front seat of the car and considered his options.

His boss, Jason Reed, had approached the group near the sports car. The headlights showed the woman on the ground and the three men.

He better not go crazy…

Terrence had seen his boss Jason lose it before.

It was terrifying.

He glanced around, gauging if there were any traffic cameras on this deserted stretch of road or if there were any other bystanders who might witness Jason killing somebody.

He prayed it wouldn’t go that far.

But he knew Jason and what he was capable of.

This was going to be bloody, and brutal.

Tonight, the road had already been closed, so who would have expected that five people and a Ferrari would break in here?

They’d disturbed Jason, who wanted to be alone.

Every year on this day, Jason always closed this whole road and stayed on it alone, wearing old clothes.

No one dared to ask the reason as if it were taboo.

Terrence who had worked for Jason all these years didn’t know the reason either.

At this moment, as he watched his boss lift a heavyset man with ease and slam his head against the wall over and over, he did not know whether he should stop him.

He got out of the car.

Beating up some would-be rapists was one thing. Killing them… wouldn’t be so easy to overlook. Or clean up.

And the men on this road were driving a Ferrari not a Ford.

Which meant, like Jason, they had money.

He started toward Jason and then paused when just as suddenly, his boss stopped fighting the man.

Grace touched the stranger’s arm. “If you punch him again,

balled his fist as Christopher slid down

this moment that

handsome. With dark eyes and a strong jaw.

was longer on

shuffled back and got to his feet, the man took a menacing

said. “He isn’t

and still as if people’s lives meant nothing to

deep breath and said, “It is not worth being

man didn’t nod nor move, but

pause to grab his friends and get back into his

he was addressing her, the stranger,

could do that she hadn’t

who’d been with these bastards stuck her head out of the car. “Holy sh*t! Is that

shock as they climbed into the car and one asked, “Jason Reed, the richest man in

Grace understood their confusion.

clothes. He looked…

billionaire. His jacket was threadbare,

out with his asshole

road was once again quiet, she

said, “Thank you…

beyond that, didn’t

he walked across to the other side of the road, he sat down with

And the temperature was due to drop even lower. If he were to sleep on

that the man had saved her, Grace started walking over to

home now? Where is your family? Do you have

his head and Grace

same darkness she’d seen in her own eyes too many times when she’d been

kind of darkness that spoke of nothing to live

to stay, you can stay with me,”

***

expect to bring a stranger back to her apartment. She wasn’t impulsive by nature, and she certainly hadn’t dated anyone

this man had saved her from

at

of them were soulless… and how could that woman watch on while she was beaten up? As an attorney, she would’ve fought hard to see all of them in prison for their crimes or complacency in it. But life had taught her that the innocent

was never

she

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