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before closing
in on me and I totally shut down. I’d lost Daddy, Trish and now Ryder. Knowing
that he was dead and I’d never get to tell how much I really loved him was too
painful for me to feel. In that moment I went completely numb.
    I
barely registered when the cab stopped outside a grungy motel. Scott forced me
out of the cab and I slowly got out. He threw some money at the driver and then
pushed me forward. He moved us toward the front door of the motel and through
the lobby. The knife was still at my back, hidden from any guests that might
see it and call for help. As soon as we were out of the lobby, we reached the
door of Scott’s motel room. He put the key into the door. Once he unlocked the
room, he shoved me inside.
    I
don’t know what it was but I felt something strong in that moment. Something
that made me stop dead in my tracks… survival . Ryder’s energy must have
found me and was trying to tell me to fight.
    “Get
in there!” he shouted, still holding the knife to my back. I felt like I was
going to faint but I held on to myself and forced myself to stay conscious. I
knew that Scott if I passed out, Scott would be able to do what he wanted
without me being able to fight back. If I owed Ryder anything out of all of
this, it was to fight for my life since he no longer could. There was no way I
was going to make it that easy for Scott.
    Once
we were inside, he shut and locked the door then gave me a hard shove that sent
me tumbling onto the bed. He then looked at me with a terrifying smile on his
face. “Alone at last.”
    “Why
did you do this to him, Scott?” I whimpered, the first time I’d been able to
form words since I was taken from Shadow. “This was about me and how angry you
are that we aren’t together anymore, not about him. Why did you have to kill
him? Why are you throwing everything away on a woman that doesn’t want you? You
have to know that this won’t end well.”
    A
crazy smile crept across his face that sent a chill shiver down my spine. He
put the knife in his back pocket and calmly, he said, “Oh it’s going to end
just the way I planned. We are supposed to be together Everleigh, can’t you see
that? These past three years apart have just been a little hiccup in our
relationship.”
    “A
hiccup? Are you really that delusional?” I asked, unable to stop the tears
rolling down my cheeks. They just wouldn’t stop and it was becoming difficult
to see anything through them.
    “You
are the one that’s delusional, baby girl. We are meant to be together. I’ve
waited patiently for three years for you to see that but when you met that
piece of trash rocker I knew that our time apart was over. Clearly you needed
reminding of what we shared and that he’s not the one for you.”
    “And
your way of reminding me was to kill the man I love and kidnap me at
knifepoint?” I cried. My legs drew together and as my ankles touched I felt
something hard inside my boot…oh my God, the gun! In all of the commotion I had
completely forgotten that I had it tucked inside my boot. I thanked Ryder in
that moment for being an alpha male and insisting that I take it with me.
Because of his persistence he’d provided me with a way to fight my way out of
this nightmare. If I could only reach inside my boot and get it…
    “Well,
after the restraining orders you two filed against me back in Indiana and here
in New York I couldn’t exactly walk up to you, now could I? I had to take
drastic action,” he said, as calmly as if we were sitting and having tea, not
hiding out in this motel room.
    I
cried harder as I thought of Ryder lying lifeless in the night club. He must be
lying all alone on the dirty floor right now, dead and cold. Had anyone even
found him yet? “Scott, you know someone will find me. Even though you killed
Ryder,” I choked out, the words slicing my heart and draining the life out of
me, “the rest of the guys are on alert as well as their bodyguards. If you let
me go