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“Go on. Head out. I will call with updates when I have them.”
“You sure?” I asked. “You’ve had a long day too.”
“I’m wired. I’ll be fine. There’s a coffee vending machine and snacks,” he added, waving toward it.
“Alright. Let us know as soon as you see him. I will come back later, or have someone else come pick you up and bring you home.”
“Sounds good.”
“Hey, man, thanks,” Myles said, nodding at him. “And thank Cato for me. And, when it is convenient, slip this to that male nurse,” he said, handing Seeley a card. “Or the female one. I’m not picky.”
With that, we headed back out, stopping quickly at the spot near the old clubhouse so Levee could at least get his bike, then heading back toward the safe house.
We were barely out of the car before the door was flying open, and Lark was running out.
She threw her arms around Myles, apologizing at least a hundred times and promising to play nurse since he was “wounded.”
Then she turned toward me, and threw herself into my arms.
As my arms went around her, feeling her soft curves melt into my body, her best friend’s words came back to me.
About her being interested.
And I was pretty sure, despite all the craziness, we could probably find an hour or two to make that happen.
Even if it was a terrible idea.
CHAPTER TEN
Lark
I wasn’t sure I’d ever been as anxious as I was while I waited with Lou in the safe house to hear if the extraction mission went well.
I was also sure I never would have believed that my life would involve words such as “safe house” and “extraction mission” if you told me a week before.
Hell, I wouldn’t even believe that I would be serving Myles’s uncle Lou coffee. Because, up until a couple hours before, the only time I saw Lou was when he came in for a smoothie, or when I joined the family for a holiday when my parents weren’t around.
It had always been about just sharing pleasantries.
Not painful, awkward silences as I tried to find a way to apologize for the fact that his nephew that he worried about like a son since he didn’t have his own children, had been kidnapped because of me.
And not just because I accidentally got myself involved with some bad guy.
No.
I had intentionally gotten myself involved in bad guy business.
That was not the kind of thing a man like Lou would understand. He had always been the “leave it up to the law” sort of man. Of course. Given his profession.
“You’re not going to help him by pacing,” Lou had reasoned. “You need to rest those ribs.”
“I’m so sorry!” I blurted out, watching as Lou dropped his hand down on Lyle’s head, giving him a pet.
“Listen, you can never know how assholes like this will react to a situation. I’m sure you never would have done any of this if you thought that anyone other than yourself would be in trouble.”
That was true.
I would never endanger Myles.
