CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The visit to her father had upset Bree so much she found herself crying through her ride home.

She must have been a really horrid person in her past life to have been handed someone as terrible as Jeffery for a father.

That must be it because he's really lousy at the job.

And now she has to go home to Ryder.

The thought didn't excite her at all or bring any atom of comfort because that was a different kind of purgatory.

Though Ryder was nothing like her father, didn't strike her as the kind of man that would stoop that low, he was a different kind of cruel.

And he made it clear as day that he despised her.

It made her wonder why, and again, why he'd gone out of his way to throw her his deal if he hated her that much.

Surely, he could have easily found someone else to do it, someone he hates less.

The man was a mystery to her and she wasn't sure he was one she wanted to solve.

The answer might be more than she's re