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.

stranger’s arm.

what?” the man said. He balled his fist as Christopher slid down the

until this moment that she really was able to

dark eyes and a strong jaw.

longer on top and

got to his feet, the man took

said. “He isn’t

man’s dark eyes cut into her. He looked deadly and still as if people’s

“It is not worth

nod nor move, but she

and get back

know if he was addressing her, the stranger, or

there wasn’t much Christopher could do that she

head out of the car. “Holy sh*t!

three men looked at her with shock as they climbed into the car and one asked, “Jason

Grace understood their confusion.

man—her savior—wore old clothes. He looked… as broken as

jacket was threadbare, and

peeled out with his asshole

the road

said, “Thank you… for saving me

grunted, but beyond that, didn’t say

of the road, he sat

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

the man had saved her, Grace started walking over

night. Aren’t you going home now? Where is your family? Do you have their phone number? I can help you call them and

raised his head and

same darkness she’d seen in her own eyes too

that spoke of nothing

you can stay

***

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

this man had saved her from rape,

shuddered at

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 rarely

life was

why did she

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