Chapter 313: I Told You Not to Come

Tallulah's POV:

Although I'm smiling, I'm still not sure I want them all here to hear the gory details. They've come to support me. I get that. But this is a story I don't want them to hear.

"I told you not to come."

"I wasn't going to miss my opportunity to be a good friend to you," Aurora tells me.

My brother enters and comes to sit beside me. With a row of family behind me, my brother on one side and my boyfriend on the other, I'm not sure I could possibly feel any safer, even if I had twenty ex-MI5 agents for bodyguards.

Then I see him. Rick Roderick enters the dock and he looks right at me. He's not ashamed one bit. His expression is haughty and the way he's looking at me is like he owns me.

Jarrod's hand tightens around mine and as if the touch of my hand isn't enough, he wraps his arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer, before taking my hand in his other hand.