‘Just no point if you’re not there.’
‘What if I leave and tell you to stay away?’
‘I don’t think you want me to do that.’
‘What if I order you to?’
‘Kade.’
‘Don’t say my name like that.’
‘Like what?’
‘Like you know me.’
‘I know you, Kade.Skin and bones and that brilliant fucking mind.’
‘I’m more than bones, and I don’t knowyou.’
‘You’re the only reason I’m here.’
‘To try and make me remember a life that’s not my own.’
‘I know you felt something out there.’
‘Turned on from fighting you, maybe,’ Kade fronts, determined to swerve.
‘Nothing new there, sweetheart.’
Kade goes fuzzy around the edges, soft in a way he’s never felt before because softness is weakness and weakness gets you killed, that’s always been his… understanding of…fuck.He looks away, bites the inside of his cheek hard.The pain helps ground him.Nothing.It’s nothing.
Sweetheart.
It’snothing.
Jaw tight, he gives Lachlan a flat stare and recovers fast.‘Fuck you.’
Lachlan clears his throat.‘Let’s do these tests, then.’
?
The tests take place in a medical room on the fourth floor.
Cole and Finn oversee the testing while armed guards stand watch on either side of Lachlan’s chair.Luca joins Kade near the back of the room and, while the tests get underway, the two of them speak quietly off to the side.
‘How are you doing?’
‘Great, you?’
‘Peachy keen, my love aside from the weirdo immortal over there.’
‘Shut it,’ Kade says with zero heat.‘Word from the boss?’
‘Nothing.Are we gonna talk about your very sexy fight?’
‘Were hiseyeball feelerssexy?’
‘Didn’t dent your tent, so you tell me,’ Luca snickers.
