Sapphire (Rare Gems Series) by Kathi S. Barton Read Free Book Online

around his offices and at the
furniture he’d paid entirely too much for simply because it had been the first
thing he’d been shown by the decorator. At the art on the wall that he rarely
looked at because he thought it was the ugliest shit he’d ever seen. Then he
looked at Justine.
    “I’m a failure.” She started to speak,
but he stopped her. “I am. I might be wealthy and have everything I’ve ever
wanted, but as a human being or a wolf for that matter, I fucking suck.” When
she didn’t disagree with him he felt worse. “I’m so sorry.”
    “What did she tell you that made you
like this?” Justine sat on the edge of her desk, and he sat in the chair across
from her. “Something must have happened in there. She comes out crying like
you’ve taken her best friend from her, and you have an epiphany about what sort
of person you are, or not for that matter.”
    “She basically told me that her sister
had been abused enough that I should back the fuck away from her and let
Benetton kill her when he comes for her. And she thinks this because she found
me lacking as a person.” He didn’t wait for her to comment but went on. “And
she’s right. I am lacking as a person. I’m not involved in anyone’s life. Not
even my own. I have no patience for my dad when he comes here to talk to me,
and I work entirely too much. And for what? More money? I have more now that I
can spend in my lifetime even if I never work again. Prestige? Fuck that shit.
I never wanted that anyway. Respect? I don’t even respect myself, why would I
expect anyone else to do the same to me?”
    “Are you going to do anything with this
newfound knowledge?” He looked at her, suddenly at a loss for an answer. “You
have a mate now. Do you want her or not? Do you care if she dies or not? Do you
want to give her up or fight for her?”
    “She’ll not be happy about any of this.”
Justine snorted. “She’s going to be highly pissed at me and shove me away at
every opportunity she gets.”
    “No doubt she will, but you still didn’t
answer my questions. What are you going to do now?” She stood up when he did. “There’s
a nice flower shop on the way…no, that’ll never do with her. She’s not the
flowers and candy sort. She’s more of a—”
    “Loaded gun type?” He laughed when she
nodded. “I’m not going to give her a gun even if I’m sure it’s not loaded. This
is going to have to be slow and easy.”
    He was out the door and in his car going
to her house before he realized it. Blair decided that he was going to give
Justine a raise. That was if he lived long enough to give it to her. He was
sort of going into the lion’s den here, and he had no way of knowing if he was
going to survive it or not.
    ~~~
    Jeffery moved much slower nowadays. The
wounds Sapphire had inflicted on him were not healing as well or as quickly as
he’d hoped. But it was his cock that caused him the most pain. He couldn’t even
piss out of it without enough pain to bring him to his knees.
    The first time he’d taken a piss he’d ended
up kneeling in his own urine, sobbing like a baby. He’d tried to crawl out of
the mire, but he’d hurt so badly that he’d had to have someone come and get
him. He’d had the man killed when he’d laughed at him. No one had laughed
since.
    He knocked on the front door of her
house and waited for someone, anyone to let him in. The old broad opened the
door. Before he could reach for the screen to enter, she had a gun pointed at
him.
    “That’s far enough. What do you want?” He
glared at her, trying to intimidate her, but she only laughed. “We don’t belong
to you any longer, Benetton, so can that crap now.”
    “I’m here to collect Sapphire. She’s to
stand trial for the injuries she caused her alpha.” He’d had to call in a great
many favors to get this thing going, and he was glad now that he’d had to give
up so much for her arrest. “I’m here as a courtesy and to take her back