“Yup. Your man called in a favor. Now get going.” I paused. “Oh, and Ryan…don’t be too hard on him when you find out the truth,” I said before shutting down the feed. I saw the way Gunner looked at her, and all that he was giving up to gain her. She was going to be pissed and feel betrayed. But the bigger wound was that she would feel she was unlovable, but that was a fucking lie. The same one I’d told myself before these men. She’d be fine. She had to be.

