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"Let's go, Little Warrior," Gunner answers, grabbing her hand and walking her to the driver's door of my car.
Fuck, I never thought I'd be jealous of a brother, but I most certainly am right now.
Sky easily slides into the passenger seat and turns the car over. The purr has me discreetly readjusting myself in my jeans as she moves to the starting line. The announcer does his speech, the gun goes off, and the race starts. Sky shoots off from the line gaining an early lead, she easily shifts through the gears, gaining more speed before slowing down just barely for the first turn. When I lose sight of the car, I switch to watching the race on the big blow-up projector screen set up for bystanders to watch. Sky easily makes her way through the tight turns with Joe right behind her. On the straightaways, he tries hard to get past her, but she is just fast enough that he doesn't have enough time before the next turn hits. Turn by turn, Sky makes it look easy as she controls the car. I wish I was there beside her seeing the big smile I know she's wearing right now. She makes her way into the final turn before reaching the last straight away. Hitting the gas, Sky brings the speed up to at least 180 miles per hour, leaving Joe completely in the dust for her to easily cross the finish line. Thank god I had done some work to the car to make it a little faster. Joe had no idea the little car Sky was using had that sort of speed in it, especially to hold it through the turns the way Sky was able to.
"Damn, our girl’s good," Creed chuckles, as he stands. "I think Sky deserves one hell of a celebration tonight."
"She sure fucking does," I agree, proud as fuck of our girl for winning.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Sebastian kissing me on the roof a few hours earlier has been running on a loop in my mind ever since. Who the hell does he think he is getting off on kissing me without permission after yelling at me to stay away from the others? This little assignment was supposed to be about protecting them not falling back into the same routines with them. The past is the past and I've accepted that nothing good can come from going back to it. Too bad my heart is killing me a liar. Gunner and Creed are reminding me exactly why I fell for them all those years ago and they are making it hard to bury those emotions again despite the fact that I know this can't last forever.
I didn't exactly lie when I told Sebastian that I didn't know why the others started talking to me again. I do, they found out the truth. The truth that I worked so hard to hide from them. Thankfully, Sebastian is too blinded by his hate still to even think of seeing the truth in front of him. I guess in a way that's better. So when I leave after we catch this stalker and killer, I won't have hurt all three of them again. Only two.
"Sky," Rome calls out while snapping his fingers in front of my face in an annoying way.
"What?" I snarl, batting his hand away from me. Honestly, I have no idea why people do the snapping thing it's annoying as fuck.
"Oh, you are still in there. Good," he chuckles. "I've been talking to you for the past ten minutes and you didn't say a word. Figured you had stopped listening and we sort of need your attention here."
"Shit," I groan, running a hand down my face. I did get consumed by my thoughts again. "What were you saying?"
"I said that Knox will be here shortly. He wants to check on you and see if he can help." Rome takes the seat across from me at the little table in my room and pulls out his phone. "Actually, scratch that. We're past the ‘be there shortly’. He's in the elevator on the way up."
"Ugh," I groan, launching to my feet. "You couldn't have given me a warning sooner?" I glare, rushing to clean up some of my clothes that are all scattered on my side of the room. Valentina keeps her side completely clean, whereas I am the mess with clothes strung everywhere. Why I'm cleaning up for Knox and never do for Rome I'll look at later, but this place needs to be clean in less than thirty seconds, and it's not going to happen. By the time I'm trying to shove the top of my suitcase closed there's a knock on the door.
Shit.
"You gonna get that or are you going to rush around some more and clean? You know none of us give a shit what your room looks like right?" Rome taunts as he stands, his eyes laughing as he watches my panic.
Fucker.Of course, he got a kick out of my cleaning spree. I'll find a way to get him back for this. There is no way he didn't know that Knox was coming hours ago, and he chose to wait until it was too late for me to do anything to try to stop him from telling me.
A knock sounds on the door again, and I sigh pushing past Rome to go open it and face my boss. It's not that I'm afraid of Knox, far from it. He's like the big brother I never had. That is the problem. He knows I can do my job and probably just wants an update but if he finds out I've been getting the threats again and that both Gunner and Creed know the truth, I'm going to be getting an earful for not informing him.
"Hi, Knox," I call out with a smile as I open the door.
"Why the hell are you opening the door and not Rome or Valentina?" he barks as he glares over my head at Rome.
Ha. He deserves that for the shit he gave me.
Turning around, I face Rome and cross my arms. "Yeah, Rome. Why am I the one answering the door?" If Valentina was here, I know she would have opened it but she left an hour ago to get a workout in since Rome was here to watch me.
"Oh, of course you team up with the boss man, now," he rolls his eyes. "Sorry, Knox. I was giving Sky shit for a marathon cleaning her room when you knocked."
Well, at least he told the truth.
"I'm not even going to ask," Knox sighs from behind me. "Next time, Sky, don't open the damn door even if you know who it is. There's a reason you have two guards assigned to you. Now, how about we head out? I have a little present for you and while we drive you can fill me in on everything that's been happening."
There's an edge to his tone that tells me he knows more than what I've told him, and I'm going to get the big brother talking-to because I hid shit from him. This is going to be fun. Not.
Grabbing my blue jean jacket from the closet, I follow Knox out the door with Rome behind me. The three of us walk down the hall in silence and step onto the waiting elevator. That was convenient. Silence fills our ride as we wait. I'm tempted to break it because it's awkward but I also don't want to because I have no idea what kind of present Knox has in store for us and I know he wouldn't give me a hint no matter how much I tried. When we reach the lobby the doors open to Valentina standing in front of us.
"Did you tell them?" she asks Knox.
"Nope, figured I'd let them suffer a little bit in anticipation. It's more fun that way," he answers while placing a hand on my lower back to guide me through the lobby and toward the parking garage.
Now, I'm really curious as to what is going on. It's not a birthday or holiday, not that I'd expect my boss to remember either of those anyway. I thought he would be coming for an update on the case but what would a present have to do with the case? Question after question runs through my mind trying to figure out what is going on. Once in the car, we started driving toward the outskirts of town which intrigues me even more. There's no reason to come out here, there's only warehouses, run down and unused ones at that. Why the hell are we here?
