CRAVING THE WRONG MAN: DANGEROUS DESIRES BOOK 1
If he wanted the ransom, he could not wreck the only thing Alessio would pay for.
He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and laughed once, short and mean.
“Look at you,” he said. “Still giving orders tied to a chair. Still thinking you have leverage.”
“I do,” I said. “You said it yourself. You want to be a wealthy man. Dead girls don’t cash checks. Hurt girls make men like Alessio stop paying and start hunting.”
That landed. I saw it.
Jake paced away from me, then back, restless now. The floorboards creaked. A car passed somewhere outside, far away, too far to help.