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“Tango down.” Cap rushed over and picked her up. He held her against his shaking body for long moments. He put her down on her feet and wiped her face off.
“You’re forever wiping blood off me,” she said.
“Goddamn you scared me to death,” he told her then pulled her back in to his embrace. As quickly as he pulled her to him he pushed back and said, “Don’t ever do that again.”
“I didn’t have a choice,” she told him.
“There were SEALs there with you,” he reminded her.
“And Lin had his gun to Melody’s head. He would have killed her, Cap.”
“Tex thanks you,” he told her after listening for a second to the piece in his ear.
“No thanks necessary. Look, can I sit down somewhere?”
He picked her up and took her downstairs away from Lin’s dead body. He pulled one of the covers off the couch in the living room and set her down on it.
She pulled the little statue out of her pocket and just looked at it. Her dad had been so proud of the little statuettes—that they’d be worth something one day.
Ava broke the last one apart and the tiny flash drive fell into her hands.
“All this death for this little thing,” she mused.
Cap held out his hand and she put it into his palm. He immediately handed it to Scope. “Get it where it needs to go,” he told his man. Scope nodded.
“How do you feel?” Cap asked as he went to his knees in front of her.
“My head really hurts. He drugged me but didn’t hurt me otherwise,” she said.
“We’re going to the hospital,” he responded.
She shook her head at that. “I’d rather just lay down and rest for a while. I’m going to be fine if I can just rest.”
He started to argue and she put her finger on his lips. “Just let me sleep it off, okay?”
“We’ve got to take a little flight to Chicago,” he told her then.
“I really hate planes,” she said with a laugh. “And the dark, and drugs, and being beaten up—yeah they all suck pretty hard.”
Cap snorted. “Let’s get out of here before the cops show up.”
Ava got to her feet determined to walk away from the house she’d grown up in instead of being carried by Cap. “How the hell did you get here so fast?”
“It’s been twelve hours since you were taken,” Cap told her.
“Damn. I was out for a while.”
He nodded. “All the more reason for you to go to the hospital,” he bit out.
“No hospitals,” she begged. “Please.”
Cap walked her to a blacked out SUV. “Why are there so many of these around?”
He gave her a weird look and cocked his head but didn’t say anything. He placed her in the very back and sat beside her, pulling her close to his side. It took them about an hour to make it to the airport. By the time he got her to a seat she was falling asleep. Again, he sat down beside her, holding her close.
She was glad he’d come for her.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
