Page 219 of Avenging Angel


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Luna got out.

“Hold!” Tex called.

It took everything I had, but I held.

I’d know why in short order.

When he got to the fence, Cap didn’t scale it again.

He took a weird step to the side, then the flash of his gun momentarily lit the dark, the blast of it silenced so it just sounded like azing. He pulled a chain off the gate and opened it.

I sprinted to him.

He’d holstered his weapon, so when I got to him, he settled both hands firmly to my hips.

Okay, got it.

You didn’t girlie throw yourself in your man’s arms when he was in the middle of an operation.

So noted.

I didn’t get a word in, likeYou’re the greatestorI love you(too soon for that, still, I couldn’t deny, I was feeling it).

He said, “You’re needed inside, baby.”

I looked to the warehouse and started that way.

He halted me by gripping my hips.

I shifted my attention back to him.

“What you’re gonna see, Rachel, you can’t unsee. No shame you get back in the Denali.”

I stared into his shadowed face.

Then I nodded.

I squared my shoulders.

I looked back to Luna, who was standing close to us.

“You good?” I asked.

“I’m good,” she said.

That was all I needed.

We walked through the gate toward the warehouse.

And then we walked in.

* * *

It tooka while to find them, the place was that big, a labyrinth of rooms and cubbies, and the things I saw in them I immediately expelled from my Oasis because they didn’t belong there.

But, we found them.

We foundher.

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