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The train wheels click-clacked louder out there, the coupler that held the carriages together intermittently squealing and shrieking as though in torment. He ignored it and focused on where he guessed Sienna’s eyes were. “We’re alone out here, you can make yourself visible now.”
Sienna reappeared, her gaze flashing. “Why can’t you just let me go?”
Sudden anger made his vision haze with red. “You made me believe you were dead.” His voice broke a little. “I watched your head disintegrate against the beam of an overpass!”
The train began slowing for the next station as she blinked up at him. “Why do you even care?” she asked softly.
He exploded, his emotions volatile. “Why do you think I damn well care? I have feelings for you, Sienna. I think I had them from the moment I saw your holo-image for my next potential mission.”
She gaped, her eyes glowing with green radiance, her bodysuit hugging her every gorgeous curve and her dark, mussed hair making him want to fold her in his arms and never let her go again. She tilted her chin. “You really mean that, don’t you?”
“Of course I fucking mean it,” he growled.
The train pulled up and he automatically caught her arm as they swayed. The double doors slid apart and commuters stepped into the carriage before pushing through its single door and entering the seated area.
The old lady he’d helped earlier was making her way out, her walking stick clicking on the floor, when he added, “I know we’ve only been together for a short time, but I feel like I’ve known you for a lifetime. I love you, Sienna.”
The elderly lady peered up at Sienna. “Aren’t you a lucky girl? If I were you I wouldn’t let this one get away.”
Sienna blinked at the silver-haired woman, who Gray then assisted out of the carriage and onto the platform. The doors were still open when the old lady walked slowly away and he turned to proffer Sienna a hand. “Stay with me, Sienna.”
Chapter Seventeen
Sienna had never beenso tempted to do anything against her better judgement in all her life. But perhaps this was her one opportunity to do something for herself for a change, to be with a man who wasn’t ashamed to tell her how he felt and how much she meant to him.
That he meant so much to her too, wasn’t something she was ready to tell him, not just yet. A piece of her was still too detached, too untrusting, to make that final leap.
What if he was lying?No.Not even an assassin, a killer, who was now a bounty hunter profiting from those people who only wanted to be free—like her—could lie that easily.
As much as she hated to admit it, Gray might actually keep her safe. His house alone was set up so that no Dronians could detect her. She bit into her bottom lip, all too aware the train doors were about to shut. “On one condition,” she finally replied.
“Name it.”
“I want to know that Nero is still alive.”
She didn’t even care about finding the rest of therares. With any luck, they already knew about the coming meeting. She wasn’t the only Strazanian who was able to pass on the news.
