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Dolph’s jaw slightly slacks but I rasp in a curt tone.
“He can’t stay. He was just about to leave.”
“Oh,” Addie murmurs, frowning, “then can I get you something for the road? Maybe some cold milk fresh from the cow’s teat...?”
Dolph’s eyes flare in shock, before dropping to Addie’s cleavage.
“He doesn’t need anything,” I growl, snatching Addie around the waist and I yank her back into the house and close the door and she turns around, peering at me.
“Is he really your friend?” she asks and I nod and she crosses her arms. “He doesn’t look as kind as you, though he sure is big.”
“I’m bigger,” I say with a flare of jealousy that makes me want to run out again and challenge Dolph to a fight just to show Addie I’m the only big, bad around here and the only one she looks up to with those eyes. Addie lets out a low snigger and I add, “Go to bed, Addie. I’ll lock up all the doors.”
Her lids flutter. “Sure is nice having someone else doing that.” She drags a breath. “Rev if I get scared of the thunder, can I come into your room tonight?”
I sway in place, my heart skipping a couple of beats in my chest.
“Yeah,” I rasp hoarsely, “you can come to me.”
I guess the killing’s gonna have to wait. I don’t want Addie to need me and not find me. She leaves for upstairs and I lock up before heading to my own room. Undressing, I put on the pajamas and usually I sleep naked but with Addie around it’ll be risky.
Especially if she comes into my room.
It better thunder tonight.
Grinding the back of my teeth, I push the covers aside and get into bed. I lay on my back, looking up at the ceiling and I wait and wait...My eyes flash in relief when I hear the first drops smatter against the window and soon a sky fall follows. It pours down but I’m going to need more and I tilt my face to the side.
Just go ahead and...
Boom!
Thank fuck. Thunder blasts, smashing into the ground like a hammer and I hear a squeak from Addie’s room and seconds later she’s standing in the doorway. Pale in the face, she whimpers, crossing the floor so fast I barely get a chance to blink and she worms under the duvet, wriggling erotically until my eyes roll back in my head.
This. Having my hands full of a farm girl blessed with rich curves is probably as close to ecstasy a monster like me will come.
5.
Adelaide
I can barely breathe under the covers and being snuggled up against Revenge’s icy frame feels surprisingly warm and now I understand why people make icehouses to keep the heat. Thunder slams outside and I scooch closer.
“Feels like the storm’s goan pull up the house by its roots doan it? Not that houses have roots...,” I add with a whisper and Revenge shakes his head in reassurance.
“You’re safe with me,” he rasps and I bury my head into the pillow.
“Safer than I am on my own anyway,” I murmur and even in the dark, I notice that Revenge is frowning. I wonder why he always seems to get upset when I doubt his ability to protect me. Thing is that I don’t doubt his ability. It’s just that I know the power of crooks more.
The crew could pulverize Revenge if they wanted to and that scares me. There are twelve of them and one of Revenge and math has never been my strong side but even I know it means he’s outnumbered. Reassured by the fact that he’s here and safe with me, I smile to myself in the dark and wriggle closer to Revenge but he tenses.
“Keep wriggling like that and I’ll give you something stiff to wriggle on,” he growls and I gasp. I squeak, lying still for a moment and I stare at his profile.
“Great balls of fire. You aint got no shame, do you? Beau would’ve killed me if he knew I was snuggling up with you like this.”
“Then I would’ve killed him,” he slithers in a voice I’ve never heard before. It’s a dark voice, a voice that drips of ferocity and the kind of strength that makes me think of brutal battlegrounds, of sweat and blood splatter and it’s a voice that doesn’t match my image of Revenge.
“You wouldn’t,” I whisper, “you aint got it in you. Aint no bad bone in your whole gigantic body.”
He lets out a sound that’s a mix between a grunt and a snort and I hide an eye roll. Men. Always trying to prove they’re much mightier than they actually are and I hold down a sigh.
