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“She’s crying out for me, you idiots!” Heshouts.

“Stop…please,” I beg.

No one is listening to me. Gage is inhandcuffs. I’m in a hospital bed feeling like shit, and I’m drawinga complete blank on yesterday’s details. It was yesterday, right? Imean…I don’t know how long I’ve been in here. No, it was. Renleysaid it was last night. I want to scream out that Gage didn’t doanything wrong, but the look in the sheriff’s eyes stops me. I alsorealize that parts of my body are bandaged. This is about more thanjust sex. That’s not how I landed in this bed.

“You’re not getting away this time, Hunter.I’ve got a witness. I got you, motherfucker,” Renley says with acocky grin.

Tears stream down my cheeks as I watch themdrag Gage away. My heart tells me that there’s no way he hurt me,but my mind battles with the word “witness”. Someone saw something.My heart shatters into a million tiny shards. I trusted him.

How could he do this to me?

To be continued....