She hung her head. “He’s important to my father.” Aye, well, that was no longer a priority for either of us. I was taking control. I’d come with that very intention. A day of being without her had me losing my mind, waiting on updates from the crew watching her and checking her tracker like a man possessed. It had driven me to an edge I hadn’t realised I was near. It broke something in me. And desperate men took desperate measures. Repeatedly, Everly had put her father ahead of me. Worse, ahead of herself. I’d told her I was better at looking after her than she was, and now I had to prove the
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