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GEORGIA
My eyes fly open suddenly. I don’t even recall falling asleep. Once I get my bearings, everything comes rushing back to me at once. Finn, the gun fire, hitman, words of love. It was all so much.
“I’ve got you.” Finn’s fingers brush down my spine. My naked body is pressed into his side. I’m wrapped around him. Clearly, I’m not scared of the deadly hitman. Still, he’s a hitman, nonetheless. I’ve seen him kill with my own eyes. “Don’t pull away from me.” There’s a pleading tone in his voice that I wasn’t expecting.
“I haven’t moved.” My head rests on his chest. He’s so damn warm. I might dare call him cuddly too. I’m guessing it’s not a word that is used to describe him often. Probably not at all.
“I meant mentally. Don’t try to talk yourself out of this.” He rolls suddenly. It doesn’t surprise me. The man can move fast when he wants to. Even at his size. I stare up into his dark eyes. The only light in the room is coming from under the curtains of the window. The sun has barely risen.
“What are we doing?”
“We have to leave the city today. Mercy will have something ready when I call.” He answers confidently as though he’s been in this situation before. I guess in his line of work he’s used to this sort of thing.
“Mercy?”
“Yes, she handles those things. I’m the man on the ground.”
“Things like finding your next hit?” He averts his gaze for a moment before he nods. “Why do you look away from me? Because you’re ashamed?”
“No.” He turns his head back to me. “I don’t want you to think I’m a monster.” Do I think he’s a monster? To me he’s not but still.
“The people you take care of are bad people, right?”
“Depends who you ask.”
“I’m asking you. The naked man on top of me that keeps talking like he’s going to take me with him.”
“I am taking you with me.”
“That’s what I meant when I asked what it is we are doing. How will this ever work?”
“We’ll make it work.”
“I don’t think it’s that easy.” He’s so damn confident. Why is everything about him attractive even when it should be bad?
“Starlight, the easiest thing that’s ever happened to me was falling for you. I’ve been gone from the start.”
“I just–”
“I know, and I’m sorry. I pulled you into my world, and now there is no going back, and if I’m honest—which I will always be when you ask—I would do it again. Now do you think I’m a monster? The life you knew is no more. I am fucking sorry but–” I cut off his words this time, pressing my mouth against his.
I want to tell him that I couldn’t care less about my old life. That there is nothing left there for me, but I don’t want to ruin this moment with him. He takes over. His mouth devours mine as though he's starved for me.
This is where I want to be. All I wanted to do was see the world. All those Instagram posts and the life I’d made online would never be as real as him.
“Finn.” I pull back from the kiss when it dawns on me suddenly. “This is my fault, isn’t it? I went digging about you and put you in danger.”
“I’ve put myself here, starlight.” He smiles down at me. His rare smile gives me silly butterflies like I’m a girl with a crush and not a woman with a deadly hitman on top of her laying his claim to her.
“I love when–” Finn’s hand comes down over my mouth. The smile drops away. I nod my head in understanding. He removes his hand and like a deadly panther, he leaps from the bed without making a sound. I sit up, catch the shirt Finn tosses my way, and pull it on.
When I glance back to Finn, he has pants on and a gun in his hand. This man is a magic act.
“I know. How many?” I hear him whisper.
I scream when someone comes busting through the window. Crap. I put my hand over my own mouth. I’m going to get us both killed.
The man gets caught up in the curtain. Finn grabs him, and I hear a snap.Scream,he mouths to me.
