Well, when he put it like that, it did make me sound like a douche.
“Listen, I’m calling now?—”
“Do you love her?”
His question caught me off guard, and frankly, I didn’t know which way to answer. “What?”
“It’s a simple fucking question. Do you love her?”
“Parker, I barely know her,” I said, hoping he would understand. “This whole thing?—”
“My mother is planning your reception. She wants your parents’ number so she can get this whole fucking thing going. What the hell am I supposed to tell her?”
“She’s what?”
“People in a small town take this shit seriously. Now, you’re off at Knight’s place?—”
“How do you know that?”
“—and you didn’t fucking bother to call me. My sister is not someone you fuck with!”
“I was drugged!” I argued, my panic rising by the second.
“I don’t give a shit if you were one hundred percent in your right mind. Under no circumstances do you touch my baby sister without asking my permission!”
Oh shit. This was really fucking bad. Even with the cold, my pits were sweating. My heart hammered in my chest as I tried and failed to think of anything to say that might alleviate his anger.
“Parker—”
“I’m coming for you, and when I get there, you’d better not run from me like a little bitch.”
I saw a flash of something in the distance, and just for a second, wondered if it was Parker, already here. But that wasn’t possible. I just called him. He couldn’t possibly be here all the way from Montana.
Unless…
Turning around, I stormed into the house and into Knight’s office, only to find him smirking at me from the seat behind his desk. He flipped the channel on the screen, and an SUV pulled down the drive, just a minute out from the house.
Knight zoomed in, and I saw Parker’s very angry face as he continued to rant at me over the phone.
“You called him?”
“Was I not supposed to?” he asked, cocking his head at me. “If you want my help, this is how it’s done.”
“You set me up.”
Standing from his seat, he walked around his desk and stood right in front of me. “Trust me, you’ll be happy I did this when all is said and done.” His eyes glanced behind me at the screen. “If I were you, I’d run.”
I spun around just in time to see Parker storm out of the vehicle, racing for the front door.
“Oh shit,” I murmured.
He wasn’t alone. He had his brothers with him, and they all looked fucking pissed.
“Better hurry. Your clock is ticking,” Knight taunted.
I didn’t wait. I took off through the house, hoping I could escape long enough to put a plan together.
He couldn’t kill me if he couldn’t find me.