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Agreeing with the voice in her head, she nervously licked her chapped lips. Yes, that was exactly what he intended to happen. He was going to make her kill Leo to prove herself. She couldn’t let that happen. There was no way she could murder the man thattrulyloved her. She needed to make a break for it. If she ran as fast as she could, she might make it to the grocery store before he knew what was happening. Freedom was within her grasp,she needed to take it.

“I think I’m full,” she said, scooting herself to the edge of her seat. “I just need to go pee before we leave. I’ll be right back and then we can go.”

Seeing right through her paper-thin plan, Kade pulled himself from his seat, effectively blocking her from stepping away from their table. Did she honestly think she could get away so easily? Had she not learnedanythingabout him in all this time?

“Here,” he offered, taking her by the elbow. “I’ll walk you.”

“You really don’t have to,” she countered, wrenching her arm free. “I know where the bathroom is.”

Glaring down at her, he slowly shook his head. Like hell he would let her slip away.“I’ll walk you,” he growled.

Not giving her a moment to protest, he turned down the main isle of the diner. With slow and steady steps, he waited for her to catch up behind him. Anger was causing his vision to run blood red; he could feel the metallic taste of adrenaline filling his mouth. She was lucky he loved her so much. That love was the only thing stopping him at that very moment from strangling the life from her body. How dare she eventhinkof running from him?

Quickly catching up to her captor, she frantically looked towards the patrons and waitress. She hoped that they would notice something odd about their less than loving interaction. To her dismay, no one seemed to pay them any mind. They were too wrapped up in their own little worlds.

Think, Lexi, think, she repeated to herself. There had to be something she could do.

Following him as he rounded the corner next to the entrance, she noticed a pen lying on the wooden podium in the waiting area. Making sure he wasn’t looking, she swiped the writing utensil and crammed it into the back pocket of her jeans. Maybe if she somehow left a note of some kind, help would arrive before they left the cabin in the morning.

Pushing the door to the women's restroom open, he motioned for her to enter with an agitated flick of his head. “Go. I’ll wait for you right here,” he said, his face gravely serious.

“Sure...ok,” she agreed, stepping into the restroom and giving him an overly sweet smile before he closed the door.

Swearing a line of obscenities, she ran to the very first stall. Quickly slamming the metal door, she secured the lock with shaking fingers. Reaching for the flimsy toilet paper roll, she tore off a piece and placed it down on the top of the porcelain toilet. Yanking the pen from her pocket, she took in a cleansing breath and began to scribble a note.

Help me.

My name is Alexandria Curtis.

That man is not my husband.

He has kidnapped me and is holding me against my will.

He is keeping me at Howling Wolf Ranch.

Please send help!

He’s going to kill me!

Hearing a quick rap on the door to the restroom, she jumped to attention. Flushing the toilet, she picked up her flimsy note. Her brain was running a million miles a second. This plan was going to work. Surely someone had to wash the bathroom on a daily basis? They would find her note and send help.Everything was going to be ok.

Exiting the dingy stall, she frantically looked around the small space for somewhere to place her hastily written plea. Deciding that it would most likely be noticed on the sink, she walked over to the pedestal and draped the length of toilet paper over its metal faucet. Saying a silent prayer, she smoothed her hands along the black fabric covering her torso and made her way out of the restroom.

Intently watching Lexi as she left the ladies room, Kade held out his arm and handed her warm puffy coat.

“Here, put this on. I just paid. It’s time to go, Sweetheart,” he said without further explanation.

Gulping audibly, she took her coat from her captor and followed his simple direction. Zipping the oversized jacket closed, she followed him as he headed towards the entrance of the diner. Giving the restaurant one last look, she found the waitress wiping down the booth she had been sitting at only minutes before. In one single, fleeting moment, her watering eyes met Peggy’s. Unable to speak, she let her nervous face do the talking.Trying to give the woman some sort of silent cue, she quirked her head towards the restroom just as Kade grabbed her arm and forced her from the restaurant.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“Are you going to say anything?” Lexi asked, turning her head to look at Kade for the first time since he had viciously shoved her into the SUV.

Chewing on the tip of his tongue, he kept his gaze centered on the snowy road ahead. Tightening his grip on the steering wheel, he continued to seethe. What did she want him to say? He doubted she wanted to know that he had spent the last forty minutes fantasizing about killing her. He was sure she didn’t want to know how he dreamt of using his contained rage to fuck her into oblivion. That he wanted to make her scream his name again and again until he felt her tight little cunt squeeze around his cock. She certainly didn’t want to know that he imagined taking an ice pick and piercing her deceiving heart at the exact moment her body shattered.

He could see it so clearly in his mind’s eye, effortlessly thrusting the sharp length of metal just below her perfect left tit. Finding that sweet spot between her ribs where her heart lay vulnerable to his expert hands. In his lurid dream, he could hear her moan in both pleasure and pain as she peaked and passed almost simultaneously; her flushed face freezing so beautifully in amixture of confusion and bliss. She would stay perfectly his for all of eternity this way, staining his soul with her cum and blood. It would be a fitting death for his love.

No. He didn’t think she wanted him to say what was truly on his mind.

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