Chapter 82

“I was trying to protect her!” Despite the dizziness still darkening my vision, I snapped up at my brother. “You think I deliberately put her in harm’s way? I didn’t see it coming. Richard took me off-guard. He literally knocked me out.”

“You didn’t see it coming?” Nathan hissed, his face turning darker and so much angrier. “You said the same thing when he took Emily. That you didn’t see it coming. But the truth was she gave you all the signs to warn you her life was in danger. Those texts and calls that you didn’t care to share with us. With me. With anyone.”

“I was trying to protect you. All of you. The more you knew about him, the more danger you would have been in.”

“If what you say is the truth, and we were better off knowing nothing about that asshole, then why the hell Zara’s life is in danger, huh? How would you explain that?”

“I don’t know, okay? I really don’t.” And it was eating me alive from the inside. The reason Emily became his overnight target was the fact she turned o