Wanted by Her Lost Love

so cleverly that Ryan had been completely deceived.Then she turned, her beautiful eyes haunted,defeated. “It doesn’t matter if you believe meanymore,” she whispered. “You wouldn’t believe mewhen it mattered. He tried to rape me. He assaultedme. He touched me. He hurt me. And when I foughthim off and told him that I would tell you what he’ddone, he told me he’d make sure you never believeda word of any of it.“And you know what the funny thing is? I told himhe was wrong. I told him that you l-loved me and thatyou would make him pay for hurting me.”She broke off as another sob racked her.Oh God. Oh God. What had he done? Heremembered the phone call from his brother asthough it was yesterday. He hadn’t believed him. Atfirst. Not until Kelly had arrived in an agitated statetelling him the exact same story that Jarrod had justtold him over the phone.“He told you the truth,” Kelly said scornfully as ifshe’d plucked the thoughts right out of his head. “Hetold you exactly what happened, only he said that itwas all a lie, that I made it up because I didn’t wantyou to know what really supposedly happened. He