The cafe JoJo was waiting in had this shady look about it and she felt slightly uncomfortable sitting in it.
As an off thought, she knew it'd be difficult for anybody to find her here.
She liked it though because with the way she was feeling after learning of Jordan's betrayal, she wasn't sure she wanted to be found.
At least not until she was ready to face his lying, betraying ass again.
The only other person in the cafe, except herself and the Barrister, stood up and left the room.
A rush of goosebumps coated her hands as she realizes the only people in the room were her and the really young looking barrister.
She glanced at her watch again, wondering why officer Lucas was taking so much time to show up.
She was only here in the first place because he'd asked her to be here for a little more questioning.
He'd explai
Jordan was getting sick with evey second that passed since he'd discovered that JoJo had left.She wasn't returning any of his calls or texts or the numerous voicemails he'd left he was veering close to the end of his patience.That feeling that something wasn't right kept curling and sitting heavy in his gut and he knew it had everything to do with the mystery person she suddenly had to go see.And it also had to do with the fact that he had no idea where she was.He'd really messed up this time and she didn't look about ready to listen to his excuses.He should have called her, should have kept his promise to her.But he didn't and it's back to bite.He'd had his reasons but now, they didn't sound about worth it."Are you worried because of Jocie?"Riley's small voice pulled him out of his head and he lowered his eyes to loo
JoJo came to with a throbbing head, bound wrists and the dirty, terrifying memories of how she'd ended up here.Whatever she was inside was moving, she knew it was a car.An expensive one she guessed seeing how extravagantly luxurious the interior of the car looked.Whoever owned it must be some loaded bastard.Her eyes hurt as she looked around, trying to take in her surrounding with as less noise as possible.She didn't want to alert the devils seating in front of her of her conscious state.Her bound hand dragged on the expensive looking leather of the seat she was lying on.She dropped dead weight immediately, pretending to still be unconscious.One of the men turned in his seat to look at her. She could feel his suspicious eyes and knew that he'd heard that sound even before he spoke."I thought I heard the bitch move." He draw
The room was dark when JoJo came to again.She didn't want to, but she did.And it hurt a lot.She didn't even know how long she'd been out.Hours? Days?Her face burned from the hits she'd taken on it from that bastard.The joints of her hands hurt when she tried to move them and the bite if the cuffs on her wrist only felt multiple times worse.She could taste dried blood in her mouth. She must have hurt some part of her mouth while she'd stood receiving hits from that low scum of a man.But she'd do it all over again than allow him to touch her the way he had without doing anything about it.She groaned as she swayed from a brief dizzy spell and her weight pulled on her bound hands, bringing pain with it.How long will she have to wait before they come in again to hurt her?How much longer will s
Brad ended up ditching his car for a ride in Jordan's.Of course the man brought his car and there had been absolutely no need for him to have snatched his keys.The ride to the cafe was blurry and he spent most of it on his phone, pulling up files and documents that were related to that case he'd remembered and the location.His one witness for a case had gone missing the day they'd been scheduled to meet and a couple days later, his body had turned up cold and very dead at the same address they were driving to.It had happened years ago when he was still a rookie in the business.Jordan cursed for the hundredth time and for the same number of times, Brad wondered if it was even safe letting him be behind the wheels.With the way he was working up right now, they could end up in a ditch somewhere while trying to get there any sooner.The car slowed as they made it
It's been a couple days and JoJo was yet to come out of it and Jordan was becoming worried.The doctor had promised him on arrival that she'd only suffered from a concussion and needs to be watched, but till now she was yet to regain consciousness.As he looked at her pale, small figure lying in the pristine, white sheets of the hospital bed, he found himself praying again.He's been doing that a lot since the morning she went missing.He needed her to come back to him, he hoped she still had a will to.After all she's been through recently, she might not.The thought scared him.She looked so fragile, like touching her could hurt her more, but he couldn't keep his hands away from her.He tucked her hair away from her face with caressing fingers, itching to do more than that but unable to.The bruises on the sides of her face where
Jordan had thought that things were going to get better from the moment JoJo's impossibly blue eyes opened again to look into his, but he wasn't so sure now.His fingers struck he keys of his system with bottled in anger and frustration.He was trying to go through the work load that had piled up over the week and it was somehow more difficult since he was doing that out of his study, at home.In this last week, he's become a terror to work with and he'd had almost half his staffs trying to quit their job because of him, and that's why he's working from home for the mean time.He needed to clear his head and get his head back in his game, but doing that was even more difficult than he'd thought.Because his problem wasn't him.Ever since she's been discharged from the hospital and was brought home, JoJo has been slipping away from him and knowing that was fuc
Officer Lucas!The fucking spineless weasel!Why the fuck had he asked her to show up at that fucking cafe out of the lot that dotted the city?It made no sense except that he'd known those guys were going to show up there and he'd been setting her up for them.The thought enraged him and made him want to hit something, someone, maybe the cunning cop himself.It was the early hours of the morning but Jordan couldn't wait to talk to Brad.He quietly left the room after JoJo finally fell into a quiet sleep.He'd wanted to lie there with her, hold her and savor the feel of her small body curled in his once again, but he couldn't.Not with what he suspected.He went to his room to grab his phones and then went back downstairs to make his call.He didn't want to disturb Riley's sleep, hence the decision to head back down
Ever since that night, morning, whatever, that JoJo had let her insecurities get the best of her, Jordan has been a little distant.She'd believed his words that night because she'd known he'd meant them, it was there in his eyes and very hard to miss.But now, she wondered if she hadn't perhaps misread something in there.It worried her that he hasn't even tried to touch her in any intimate way since the ugly incident she was still trying to get over.And it's been over a week now.Even that night, he'd only kissed her, and that was because she had asked him.He didn't even try to go any further like he would have before the incident.He had just held her like she was some fragile porcelain and she didn't like it.She is anything but fragile and she didn't want to be held, she wanted to be loved by him and she wanted to have him worship her body in