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“Tinsley,” Jinx barked in his most commanding tone. “Fucking leave now, and maybe we won’t kill you, but if you drag this out another second, you’ll be leaving here in a body bag.”

“Shut the fuck up!” Tinsley screamed.

Kelsie jumped.

“Let my fiancée speak.”

He jabbed the gun against the side of her head again. Her whimper would haunt Ty’s nightmares for years to come.

Kelsie’s eyes met his. Another round of tears spilled. He clenched his teeth so hard that they squeaked. Kelsie shook her head.

Whatever it was Tinsley was forcing her to say, she didn’t want to say it. Which meant it would probably hurt Ty to hear it. Nothing mattered right then but her safety. She could call him every name in the book and curse him for life, and he wouldn’t blink.

He placed a hand over his heart. “I love you,” he mouthed, then spoke out loud. “Go ahead, Kels, say what’s on your mind.”

A sob tore from deep inside her. “I-it’s over. I don’t want you anymore.”

He tilted his head and rolled his shoulders. It felt like an impossible task, but he tried to relax his stance in hopes of giving Kelsie an ounce of relief. Of course, he didn’t believe a word she spoke as a psycho held her at gunpoint.

“Why?” Tinsley asked, a sick gleam in his eye. “Why don’t you want him?”

“I-I’d rather be with A-Andrew.”

Tinsley rotated his head, grinning at Ty as though any of this was real and he’d won. “Keep going.”

Kelsie shook her head.

This time, Tinsley smacked the side of her head with the gun, drawing a pained cry from her.

Both Ty and Jinx charged forward.

“I’ll fucking shoot her,” Tinsley shouted before anyone could reach him. “I’ll fucking do it.”

They froze.

“Speak.”

“O-okay,” she said around her sobs. “Ty, I’m sorry, but you can’t satisfy me as well as A-Andrew does. He… he’s just more man than you, and I need that. N—” She shut her unswollen eye and then whispered. “No one has made me come as hard as he does.”

It’s not true. It’s not true.

Even knowing she only spewed this bullshit to stay alive, it cut fucking deep, and it had to be killing her to speak those words.

What now? What did Tinsley want from him? What would end this the fastest? Should he rant and rave? Is that what this was? Did the man want to see him lose his cool? Or should he remain calm and let Kelsie go without a fight?

For show.

He’d only let her go for real if his heart stopped beating.

“Did you hear that, Tyler? She doesn’t want you. Your dick isn’t enough for her.”

There was another avenue he could take.

“Bullshit.”

Jinx snorted.

“What?” Tinsley said, eyes wide and wild, darting between him and Jinx.

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