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“You mean when you don’t go all alpha and protect me yourself?”
“Baby, I will always protect you with my life if I have to. But if I’m not there, I want to know that you’re prepared.”
He puts his ear and eye gear back on. “Now let’s go again.”
*
After we shoot a few more rounds, Falcon takes me to the workout room.
“Tell me what kind of exercise you’ve done,” he says.
“I told you. I hate exercise.”
“You’re lucky to have such a hot little body without resorting to exercise.” He runs his hands up and down my back, making several chills run through my spine. “But exercise will help you keep it as you get older, Savannah. I’m going to make sure you get in shape. We’re going to go slowly.”
“We are?”
“It takes a while to get into shape, and if I push you too hard, you’ll have a lot of muscle pain. I can’t have you in pain, because we may need to leave quickly. But I’ll start you on a few things. We’ll start with some walking on the treadmill, just to get your heart rate up, and then I’ll show you some very basic strength training exercises, gently so that you’re not in any pain.”
“Strength training?” I look in the mirror, imagining what I’d look like as a bodybuilder. “I don’t want big muscles.”
“First of all, I just told you, we’re going to start slowly and gently. Second of all, women don’t have the hormones to develop those big muscles. You don’t need to worry about that anyway.” He pokes me gently in my abs. “I’m talking about some core strength. I’m going to start you with a few planks, and some arm exercises with three-pounders. And we’ll start easy on the planks. Only thirty seconds at first. I don’t want your abs hurting.”
“Trust me, I’m in favor of not hurting.” I give him a smile.
“Absolutely. I can’t have you in any pain.” He narrows his gaze at me suggestively. “But I also want you in top-notch shape for all the exercise we’re going to be doing in the bedroom while we’re stuck here.”
I smile then. “Now that’s the kind of exercise I can get behind.”
11
FALCON
Eagle freezes. “It’s him. Diego Vega.”
My pistol’s in the back of my waistband, and I’m ever aware of it against my body.
“How do you know?” Hawk asks.
“I just know. Call it intuition. Call it whatever you want.”
“We’ve got his fucking money. What else would he want?”
“My ass,” Eagle says.
“We won’t let anybody hurt you,” I say.
Hawk glances around as the truck drives up to the old barn.
“Thank God,” Eagle says. “It’s not him. He sent two of his minions to pick up the money.”
“Good enough.” I glance at the duffel that contains a million in cash that I got from my grandmother. God, if she knew…
But she doesn’t, and I’ll make sure she gets paid back. It’ll come straight out of Eagle’s trust fund when he turns twenty-one. In the meantime, though, it’ll come out of mine. Of the three of us, I’m the only one who has access to mine.
If I’d been able to get cash quickly, I wouldn’t have gone to our grandmother at all.
God, Nana. And Lawrence, who knew exactly what I was up to. That man seems to have eyes in the back of his head.
