Chapter Sixty-Three

DAWN. 

I stare at Ryder with a confused expression, and he shakes his head; his body trembling with laughter. 

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, " he says amidst laughing, and I roll my eyes; wondering why the fuck he finds this funny, when I freaked out seeing that message. "It's just so fucking funny he threatened you with something like that, and you believed him. Babe, it's me. Do you forget the kind of guy you're dating? I'm a fucking CEO, and I've got security around me always. " And there's that. "And I can protect myself, sweetheart. If he thinks he can get me, then he should go ahead and try. He has no fucking idea who he's dealing with, and it seems you're forgetting too. " He ends with a lift of his brows, and I shake my head, wrapping my arms around his neck. 

"I did for a second there. It's just, " I sigh, the memory of how worried I had been when he threatened to kill him running through my mi