Free The Devastatingly Beautiful Series by M Dauphin

whole area is grey now since you’re unfortunately alive.” I keep still, knowing that beating the shit out of this man on the side of the road won’t go over well.
    “You shut your fucking mouth,” he growls. “You know nothing about me or the things I’ve been through. I on the other hand know all too well about your escapades. You stay the fuck away from her or she’s going to find out the hard way how bad of an idea it was to trust you.”
    “We will see about that.”
    He gets back in his car and speeds away. Time to start digging into this guy’s past.
    The fact that he claims he knows about me rattles me. I’m in a totally different part of the country, no one here has ever heard of me. Apparently I’m wrong, though, obviously he knew me and has been following me. Shit. I need to tell Molly. If he’s following me, he has to be doing the same with her.
    *****
    After calling Molly three times with no answer, I resolve to drive back to her house. She may not want to be around me, but I have to see her. I can’t shake the feeling that he has gotten to her already and my heart won’t be able to take it if she’s gone. On my way to her house, I call Eddie again.
    “Man, I thought you left to stay away from all the trouble?” he answers
    “Eddie, I need you. I will pay you ten times what you make. Just find me everything you can on Brian Ward.” After quickly rattling off all I know about him, Eddie hangs up with a hefty task.
    I need to get to Molly. I need to tell her how I feel. We need to make it out of this. And she needs to know the whole truth about me.
     
    Molly
    He actually walked out the door. I know I asked him to leave, but I didn’t really want him to leave me alone here in this house. I can’t be here, but I don’t know where else to go. Everything has changed now that I know Brian’s been alive this whole time. There are so many questions I have, but all I can feel at this moment is the loss from Tatum walking out of my life. My heart aches and I feel the beginning of a panic attack that he isn’t coming back.
    I knew there was more to him when he showed up at the coffee shop a few days ago. I just wasn’t prepared for the blow that he sent when he told me his family was the Savages of Texas. I don’t think there is any American citizen that hasn’t heard of them. Word is, his father is gruesome and unforgiving. One wrong move against the Savages and when they find you, (there are no ‘ifs’ with this family) you wish you would have done yourself in before they found you. Tatum can’t be involved with them. He is too gentle and caring. He listens, he helps, he adores me, and I know it.
    The need to see him grows inside of me. I wish I never would have kicked him out. He has been nothing but kind to me. There has to be an explanation of why he did what he did.
    When the doorbell finally rings I sigh a sigh of relief. Having him here with me will at least make me a little less jittery. Knowing that Brian’s out there and needs to talk with me about something has me on edge that he’s going to pull something. Something bad.
    “Oh, thank god he came back,” I whisper to no one.
    I walk to the front door and swing it open, ready to get back into his embrace and figure this mess out together.
    What I don’t expect is the figure standing in the doorway.
    “We meet again, Molly.”
    “What the hell are you doing here, Brian?” I freeze in the doorway.
    “There are… things we need to discuss. And you need to understand. I thought we’d take a walk.”
    “I’m not going anywhere with you!” I scream. I can’t help it. It’s so unnerving seeing him alive. I don’t know how else to respond but with hurt and anger.
    “I was hoping you wouldn’t make me do this, Molly, but you just don’t leave me any choice.”
    He clears his throat and two men appear from around the corner of the porch. Shit! I turn to run, but they anticipate it and grab my by my waist, shoving a bag