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Page 131 of Perfect Liar

“Elle, talk to me.”

“Will.”

“I miss you, baby.”

The emotion clinging to the back of my throat stopped my words.

“I’ll be home today. Don’t go anywhere without me.”

Thomas must have told him that I had mouthed off about going to London.

Anger burned through me.

I didn’t know why, but I couldn’t resolve the hurt caused by his leaving, so I snapped at him.

“You heard I wanted to leave and now you’re coming back to do your job.”

“Jesus fucking Christ. That’s not?—”

He stopped, hesitated, softened his words.

“There isn’t a job, Elle. I won’t let you leave because I can’t live without you. I came to London because complicated matters here needed my attention, and I didn’t want you caught up in it. But I’m coming home…to you…always.”

His words broke me, and as I choked on my emotions, he cursed and issued commands.

“Goddamn it, Elle. You will not cry about this. And you will wait for me.”

And then he hung up.

As odd as my reaction might have seemed, I smiled then.

Because he had slain his demons.

My phone rang a third time.

“Believe me, baby, when I say you’re everything to me,” he said.

I closed my eyes.

“Please just get home, Will.”

CHAPTER 36

John powered through with his shoulder to throw a right cross at me, and I ducked.

“Your reaction time is great, Ellie. I’m coming at you faster with this next one, so let me know when you’re ready.”

I shifted back into my defensive position.

“Okay, I’m ready.”

I had started training on the mats with him right after Will left. John trained regularly with his older brothers, and lucky for me, he’d been easier to convince that I needed to learn. Still, I knew he’d asked Will and been given permission but only because he was smaller and had no fighting experience outside the gym.

Will refused to teach me himself, insisting it was his responsibility to fight, not mine.

Before John, I had approached Thomas for the help, but he wouldn’t teach me either.

“There’s quite a lot of pain that comes with hand-to-hand training, Ellie, and I won’t have you suffer through it. You can’t imagine the physical strength involved. When we fight, it takes us over, and we become something else. It must be that way, or we die out there. The answer is no, and don’t ask me again.”




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