Page 58 of The Prey (The Hillers of Barratt County #6)

He’d tried to kill Hudson and Ryan. She knew he had. This wasn’t just about what he’d done to her since he’d come back. He hated Hudson more. She was just the tool he wanted to use against Hudson.

It was all making sense now. Hudson’s accident that wasn’t an accident, the fire at Hudson’s house, the defendant attacking Gia to get back at Hudson. That was all it was, an unreasonable hatred and resentment.

It was because he hated Hudson.

She was just collateral. Or a bonus.

A way for him to jab the knife into the man she loved just a little deeper. He dragged her toward the panel door. Past the window.

She jammed her hip into his stomach, and twisted as hard as she could. She ignored the pain in her shoulder, in her ribs she knew he had cracked even more. And lunged with all of her weight.

Jason crashed into the window, shattering the antique windowpane in an instant.

He howled. In fury, in pain.

A scream like she had never heard before. Blood was everywhere. He was bleeding. The glass from the window was everywhere.

Blood was on her arm. Not just his, either.

Her arm had gone through the window.

She was definitely bleeding.

But he…

Was writhing on the ground at her feet. Like he was dying or something.

Someone cursed behind her. Said words that would definitely have made Gunn blush and would have shocked the rest of her brothers to their rather large toes. Gia turned.

“Here. Let’s see what we can do,” Judge Collins said. She had a hoodie in her hands. “Wrap it around your arm, Giavonna. Apply pressure.”

“I…I know what to do. But thank you. What…what should we do with him ?”

Gia and Judge Collins just stood there and looked at him. He was almost crying on the floor in front of them, blood coming from multiple cuts on his arm and shoulder. His neck.

There was blood all over his neck.

He was a broken man now.