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Back in the kitchen, she announced, “I’m going to check out this wound and see how bad it is. If necessary, I’ll drive him into town.” Taking his arm, she said, “Let’s go, Grace.”
She led him to his bedroom on the first floor and through it to the attached bathroom.
He said, “You know I don’t need stitches…”
“Just buying you some time. Also, I really wanted to kiss you.” Wrapping her arms around his shoulders, she made love to his mouth and sighed. “Let me clean it up. Where’s the awesome first aid kit I know you have in here?”
Pointing at one of the cabinets, he didn’t let her go. “One more kiss. I’mwounded.”
Grinning, she obliged. Against his lips, she said, “I think you might be milking this thing, Mr. Statton.”
He stroked his uninjured hand over her hair. “Rowan finally figured it out. We’ve been sneaking in and out of this house every night.”
“She’s never been the suspicious type. Her trust is hard to earn but unconditional. I was messing around with Gage for two months - climbing through the window of the room weshared- and it never crossed her mind to question me.”
With a sigh, she pulled from his arms and removed the kit. Flipping it open, she removed antiseptic, gauze, and butterfly bandages.
He leaned against the counter, his hand over the sink, as she cleaned the wound and wrapped it snugly. “It will be sore but at least it’s not your primary gun hand.”
“You’re quite the nurse, Nina.”
She cleared her throat. “At the warehouse, there was a girl. She was older than me. Her dad was a medic in Vietnam. They’d been homeless for a couple of years when she was snatched. She taught me a lot. Sometimes, it was necessary to patch up the others.”
“What happened to her?” he asked softly.
“One day, one of the regulars couldn’t get it up. Said she wastoo oldandused up.” Nina hissed, “She was thirteen.” She cleaned up the counter and put the supplies away. “Most of the ones who disappeared were drugged, taken out when we were sleeping. Sh-she fought them. Scratching, biting, screaming.”
Gripping the edge of the counter, Nina stared at nothing. “We were in fucking cages. Fortified dog kennels. None of us could help her. I couldn’t help her. They beat her to death in front of us.”
Shaking her head, she whispered, “They dragged her out by one arm like she was a bag of trash after they’d used her, profited from her repeated rapes and torture for years. That’s when I knew I had to get us out - no matter what it took.” Meeting his eyes, she said, “Her death made me the oldest.”
Nina slipped her arms around James’ neck and kissed him. Her fingers gripped hair that he wore longer since they’d moved to Daingerfield. He growled against her mouth.
Pivoting them smoothly, he slammed her back against the wall by the door, devouring her mouth. His uninjured hand slid down her side and held her ass.
She held his gaze. “I heard you with Rowan. You’re worried about our age difference. I thought it didn’t bother you.”
“You were here longer than I realized.” He sighed and she knew he was comparing their similar features. “Everyone is going to think you’re my daughter.”
“Not if I fuck you in public.”
He rocked his cock against her with a low growl. “I’m sixteen years older than you, sweetheart.”
She shrugged. “I have daddy issues…”
“I’m serious, Nina.”
“So am I. James…I look at you and see a man. The man who belongs to me.” She trailed her fingertip over his jaw. “You do belong to me, don’t you?”
“You own me. You have from the start.”
“You’re mine and I’m yours.” She lightly kissed his lips. “Age will never matter because you understand me. You soothe my nightmares, fuck me like an animal, and make love to me...something I never knew I needed.”
He lowered his mouth to hers and she parted her lips on a low moan. He sucked her tongue and he lifted her with his unbandaged hand. She wrapped her legs around him.
James carried her into the bedroom and lowered her to his bed. He stretched out over her with his cock notched against her center and rubbed himself against her clit.
His hands stroked down her sides and went to the hem of her t-shirt, pulling it up and over her head. He kissed down her neck and over her collarbone, sucking first one nipple and then the other firmly.
