Read Lissa Kasey - Dominion 3 - Conviction for Free Online Page B

bad boy and a player, but I thought I could keep him on the straight and narrow. How naïve I’d been.
I unpacked my things and headed into the shower, determined to wash him from my mind. Somehow I didn’t think that was going to be as easy as I had imagined. Losing him had hurt. First loves were often that way.

Chapter Six
Jamie
    I
WATCHED Kelly disappear up the stairs, keys in hand, before I took Sei to find food. Sei nearly had a heart attack when we went into the kitchen. I shouldn’t have expected the cleanliness that Gabe required in his home or his bar to be extended to places outside his reach. Cat had been shocked by his reaction, though it didn’t stop her from clinging to my arm and batting her overly made up lashes at me. Dominion girls were all the same, and I didn’t need that kind of trouble.
    I got Sei fed and calmed. We sat in a couple of recliners in the lounge, finishing up sandwiches and fruit. He watched me with worry and curiosity that I wasn’t used to.
“What?” I finally asked.
    He shook his head, looking away, but then his eyes darted back my way.
Did he think something was wrong? “You can talk to me, you know.”
He just gave me a sweet smile and stole a grape from my tray.
“Will you tell me what’s going on with you and Kelly?” Sei would likely have a different opinion of Kelly’s nightmares. I wondered if either of them was giving me the whole story.
“Nothing’s going on.”
I wanted to ask why I’d found him and Kelly sleeping together a half dozen times in the past few weeks then, get Sei’s take on his best friend’s behavior, but Sei would probably shut down on me, and after that hug in the lobby, I didn’t want to lose our progress. “I just want to make sure he’s okay.”
“He’s okay. Just dealing with stuff. That’s all.”
    “Like you were dealing with stuff?”
“I’m okay.” He glanced my way again. “We’re okay.” I fought to keep my sigh to myself. Tanaka, his mother,
    made him this way. She was so reserved about emotion she’d inflicted fear into Sei about expressing himself. Kelly was good for him in that way, since the guy was pretty open about everything he felt. Except now. Something had changed, and Sei followed his lead, which meant harder times ahead for Gabe and me.
“I think as soon as the roads clear we should go home.”
    He frowned now. “But it’s our vacation. We’re supposed to do family stuff.”
“And you hate the cold and snow. We should have gone somewhere warm.”
“Then I couldn’t spend much time with Gabe.”
    But Kelly wouldn’t be trembling like a willow tree in the wind, and Sei wouldn’t have that tight set of his shoulders when he thought people were staring at him. Which that tall tattooed guy was doing now as he stood near the stairway. Gabe could have rented an island or something.
    The main lodge door opened, and Hans came in looking cold and distressed. He stopped at the counter to talk to his wife for a few minutes. I caught the words “sled” and “frozen.” That didn’t sound good.
    I brushed Sei’s shoulder. “How about you go and nap with Gabe for a while. You look tired.”
“I am a little tired.” To have him admit it meant he was more exhausted than he appeared to be.
I walked him to the stairs, watched him disappear toward his room, and then I headed for Hans. If we had a chance of getting out of here, I would do what I could to make that happen. My bones ached with a familiar pain that made me think something was seriously wrong, and we just hadn’t figured it out yet. With Kelly and Sei safe upstairs, I could search for a way out of the hills and valleys of northwest Minnesota and back to where I could guard them with ease.

Chapter Seven
Kelly
    A
FTER washing away the day from my skin and dressing in clean, warm clothes, my stomach rumbled. I found my way back down to the lobby, thankful that Con was nowhere around, and tried to find Jamie and Sei. We still had to talk about that