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“I needed to get to higher ground. Had some calls to make.” He looks at me and waits for more. “Got someone coming to do PT with Avery tomorrow. They can come twice a week until we leave.”
“That gonna be enough?”
“The doc seems to think so, but we’ll know for sure when the PT assesses her.”
“And what’s the cover story you went with?”
I move to grab a beer out of the fridge, holding one out for Hawk to take too. “I told them it was a national security issue. And they’d need to sign an NDA and not listen to a word our guest might say.”
“You basically told them Avery was our prisoner.”
“It was the only way to guarantee they’d ignore whatever Avery might tell them.”
“Fuck, Creed, don’t you think this is just going to make everything worse?”
“You went along with this plan, Hawk. Don’t change your mind just because she let you in her pussy. Sex won’t fix this shit.”
“That’s a cheap fucking shot, and you know it.”
I slam my beer down on the counter and look toward the bedroom, lowering my voice so Avery doesn’t hear me. “You were the one who told me that you missed her. That you’d like a chance to fix things, right? That was just this morning. Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten already.”
“Fuck you, Creed. Stop twisting my words to fit your needs.”
“My needs? I didn’t hear you complaining when you were fucking her.”
He shoves me back, making me stumble.
“I’m not saying I don’t want her back. I’m questioning how we’re going about it. We didn’t plan for any of this. We wanted to break her. But fuck me, Creed, that’s not an option anymore.”
I stare at him, my chest heaving.
“In my head, I had built her up to be this callous bitch. I pictured her walking away without looking back, a smirk on her face, and our money in her pocket. But that’s not the woman in our bed. She’s broken, and I have this awful feeling that we’re the reason why.”
I lean my arms on the counter and sigh. He’s not telling me anything I haven’t already figured out for myself. “I get that, but she needs physical therapy, and this is the best way to go about it. We can’t undo what we’ve done. If we let her leave now, she’ll be gone. And there will be no fixing anything.”
“I know. We talked about this, but I’m still not sure it’s the right play. What about if we take her back to Apex?”
I snort and look at him incredulously. “We’d be lucky if the guys didn’t shoot us themselves.”
He grumbles something but doesn’t dispute it. “What time are they coming?”
“Eleven.”
“Alright. We’ll just have to play it by ear.”
I nod because that’s all we can do. “So, about earlier.”
“We were swimming. I snuck up on her, which she didn’t like. I remembered about the wound and started carrying her to the edge of the pond, but she begged me to stay for a little while longer. I’m still a sucker for those eyes of hers, apparently, because I can’t tell her no. Next thing I know, she’s begging to get out.”
I frown.
“Ah, shit.” I see a light bulb go off over his head as he clenches his hands into fists.
“You figured it out?”
“I asked her if she trusted me. She told me no, and that’s when everything went downhill. I should have realized that was it. But because she’d started panicking before that, I didn’t make the connection.”
“Why was she panicking?”
