Twist by Dannika Dark Read Free Book Online

the back of his hair and he shuddered. “I’ll be the judge of that.” Her voice tickled his spine and he tried to drown out her fresh rain scent with the steam from his cup. “After what I saw tonight, I know there’s a decent man in there.”
    “I don’t put up with lowlifes, I was just…” He stopped before he felt the flush in his ears. Damn, how he hated that dead giveaway of his embarrassment. In school, kids taunted him for it, and as a result, Knox learned how to fight.
    “Well, you can come to my rescue anytime .” Sunny drifted over to her seat.
    An impulse surged through every muscle in his body. Maybe it was pride talking, but women never spoke that way about him.
    “I’m beginning to think I really should carry that pepper spray I’m always threatening to use,” she smiled. “I usually don’t have to deal with that kind of thing.”
    Her fingers cupped the mug as she took baby sips. A fluff of steam obscured her face and made the tip of her nose glisten. He took a big mental eraser and tried to work on that emotion swelling inside of him.
    “What do you do to earn a respectable dollar?”
    Women loved this part. You merely had to suggest you worked in the military and all the visions of uniforms danced in their heads like sugarplums. Of course, the only uniform he wore was all black.
    “Military. Top secret shit,” he said, with a double arch of the brow.
    “Sounds riveting ,” she mocked with a sly smile that had the hairs on the back of his neck standing erect. “Do you work with Adam, is that what he does?”
    “No. His kind employs their own and keeps separate from us humans. I don’t know what they do precisely.”
    “So you’re human?” she asked warily.
    “Born and bred. Your friend—she’s been through some rough shit,” he said, derailing the subject.
    She rested her elbow on the table and it tilted, so Knox planted his boot on one of the legs to steady it. He grimaced at the burnt flavor of the coffee and set his cup down.
    Sunny cleared her throat. “I was seeing this guy who kept asking about her, but I didn’t think much about it because I thought he was just trying to show an interest in my life. The night Zoë disappeared, I went to his place, and… he said he was finished with me. He deceived me,” she said angrily. “Led me to believe there was something more between us. I was an idiot. I can’t believe I actually fell for his lies. That’s karma coming back to sink its teeth in my rear, and I probably deserve it.”
    “ He was the fucking idiot.” Knox placed his arms flat on the table.
    “I’ve never led a guy on, Knox, but he did with me. I was so upset by the things he said that we started arguing, and I got even more upset when I couldn’t understand half of what he was saying because it was in Italian. When he called me a name—that much I understood. I threw a bookend at him and…”
    Her delicate brows pinched together forming a worry line, and he didn’t like where this story was going. Knox had zero tolerance for a man who raised a hand to a woman.
    “What did he do?”
    “He moved so fast. I guess that’s something that they can do, right? Well, I was just flabbergasted.” Sunny smiled sweetly and it melted him. “Sorry, sometimes I sound a little old fashioned.”
    He liked the way this woman spoke; it was confident and not muddied up with profanities that came as natural to him as breath. Her voice was clear and bright, like church bells.
    “Marco grabbed my arm and threw me out the front door like Monday’s trash.”
    Knox wanted to find the prick and throw him off a cliff.
    “I always suspected that Marco had something to do with her disappearance. That’s why I moved; I was afraid of him. Now that I know what Silver is, everything makes sense. He used me just to get to her; he was probably conspiring with that monster that made her.”
    She got up and sat on the edge of the bed, dropping her head in her hands. “She’s never