Page 38 of Shattered By the Currents
That son of a bitch.
She threw the door open and climbed out, needing air to breathe. To calm the fire inside her. She wanted to scream. To curse so loud that her lungs hurt.
That man—thatstupidlittle man! He’d already destroyed everything. The life she’d thought they’d have together. The future she’d always pictured. He’d taken her love and he’d stomped on it. And hestillcouldn’t leave her alone.
She grabbed her phone from the car and called him, her attention locked on the dirt in front of her as she paced.
“Hey, Rave.”
She stopped abruptly. “You answered.” She’d called him so many times since he’d stolen her money, and he’d never answered.
“I take it you got my mail.”
That anger returned like a gut punch. “How dare you steal from me? We had a deal. I keep my mouth shut and you leave me the hell alone.”
He laughed, and the sound was equal parts evil and disturbing. “You still don’t get it, do you?”
“Get what?”
“That you have no power.None. Which means this is my game to play, the wayIwant.”
This was a game to him? “This is my life, you asshole!”
“It stopped being your life a long time ago, Rave.”
“You’re a sick, messed-up bastard. You know that? I hate you!”
“No. I’m someone who doesn’t like people looking into his business.”
She stiffened. “What does that mean?”
“It means, my darling fiancée, that Iwasleaving you alone…before you hired a PI to dig into my life. Then I got angry. And nothing good comes of it when I’m angry.”
“You’re the reason he’s not answering my calls?”
“I’m the reason for everything.”
The rage was so thick, it sat in her throat like a brick. Blocking her air. Her ability to think or function. Also worry for Tim. His safety.
“I hope you get it now.”
She hesitated. She shouldn’t ask. She did. “Get what?”
“Nothing was ever yours. Not your home. Not your money. Not even that pathetic little life in Deep River. It was,and is, all mine.”
Connor pulledup on the opposite side of the road from Raven’s Subaru, his lights cutting through the almost-dark road ahead.
His gaze immediately narrowed on Raven’s car.
She wasn’t in there. The hell?
Quickly, he scanned the road, then the tree line beyond.
Nothing. Not a single whisper of movement.
Where was she?
He hit her name on his phone.
