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In neither scenario is he allowed to get away with it.

Blake hustles from the bar to the exit. I stand.

“Oliver,” Darcy calls over my earpiece. “I’ve lost Sienna.”

My heart races. “Blake just left the party. Did you see him?”

“He went out the back door toward the docks. Sienna went out the front. I’m out here now and she’s nowhere. Someone must’ve taken her right away.”

“He’s got help.”

“Fucking right he does.”

Sienna said he had money. He must’ve paid for help. She also said he did offshore powerboat racing. I sprint toward thedocks, scanning for powerboats. Rustling on a pier at the far end catches my eye. I race toward it.

Three people are boarding a powerboat. One of them is Sienna in the cream-colored silk dress.

I go all out. My lungs strain. My feet don’t move fast enough. The engine revs. Blake must be at the wheel because whoever is helping him is pulling lines off the pilings.

“Ollie,” Sienna screams as I sprint down the pier.She called me Ollie.

Blake slings an arm around her waist and pulls her over to the cockpit, where he sure as hell is ready to race out of here.

His assistant has one more line to release, then there’s nothing stopping that speedboat from going out to harbor.

There’s no way I can let that happen.

I don’t know if Blake has a knife or a gun to Sienna. But I cannot allow him to take her out of the marina.

I pull out my Glock and plant my feet. I aim at the engine blocks and fire.

Chapter Ten: Sienna

Thecrackofgunfireis followed by the squeal of the boat's engines shutting down. The dock, the boat, Blake, and his partner go quiet.

A splash off the bow fills the air. The weight of the boat shifts. “Sounds like your partner just jumped ship,” I say to Blake. “You should get off, too. It’s the only way you’re going to save yourself.”

Darcy joins Ollie on the pier, and they move toward us with their guns trained on the boat.

“Blake, it’s over,” Darcy says. “I've known you most of my life. I don't want to see this turn out the way it looks like it’s going to turn out. Get off the boat. Let's stop this before it gets worse. The charges you're facing now are nothing compared to what you'll face if you hurt Sienna.”

“Fuck,” Blake says and pulls a gun from somewhere beside the boat's wheel. “You’re coming with me.”

“Where?”

“Overboard.”

I don’t move.

“I’ll kill you here, Sienna. Or you jump with me. Your choice.”

I can’t die because that would mean I can’t be with Ollie.

I don’t resist when he pulls me to the side of the boat. “We could’ve been so good together,” he hisses into my ear. “You and I would’ve had the most beautiful children. We’d have been happy, Sienna. Why did you keep ignoring me? I don’t know what I did wrong. I could’ve given you the world if you’d given me a chance. But then you went and shacked up with that bodyguard? What does he have that I don’t?”

Integrity, honor, passion, loyalty to his friends and coworkers, a genuine smile, a kind heart.

I love him, and I don’t want to end this thing between us because of one comment he made about my past. It was awful what he said. But I need to let go of some of my defenses.