✷~🎀 𝒟𝒶𝓌𝓃 𝐻𝒶𝓎𝑒𝓈 🎀~✷
"Take every chance. Drop every fear." ~Unknown
I stepped away from Owen and closer to Vic with a daring look on my face. "I think you may want to think long and hard about what you just said and what you plan to do with Mr.Grady because, I swear to God, if he returns to me with so much as a bruise, I will shut you and your entire operations down and let you watch all your work burn before you and I myself will pay for the raptors because, unlike you think, I don't live off of dirt. Do I make myself clear Mr.Hoskins because I would be glad to put that into words you can understand." I said it loud enough so Hoskins could hear but Owen couldn't. I don't know where my courage came from but it was somewhere. The odd thing was I meant every last word. I realized that he could call me out for kissing Owen and I dared him too. I wanted to see Hoskins try and intimidate me after all I had just said. I was serious though. I would march right up to Claire and hand her that disk and then I would put all of my savings into the project so I could keep the raptors living.
I wasn't losing Owen. Not after what had just happened. It wasn't an accident that I had met Owen. I hadn't leaned in on accident.
I really felt something. The most important thing was that, by getting closer to Vic, I was standing in between him and his target. That made me feel better. As long as Vic had to go through me to reach Owen it would give Owen time to run or see the truth.