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“How?”
“I don’t know.”
His deep voice pours the question over my heart. “What do you want?”
I lift my forehead to find his eyes. They look as deep as the ocean floor, and I drop my heart like an anchor to them. “I want you both.”
God, I can see it. Lust demands I imagine it, and my heart says it’s right, but my mind fears I want too much.
He shakes his head, stepping back. “I’m not going to hurt her.”
“I don’t think it will.”
“She’s going through enough.” He rakes through his hair. “I won’t risk it.”
“I won’t risk lying to her. Nobody wins when we keep secrets.”
He looks at me like I just spoke a gospel truth he wants to kneel to. It’s two long breaths from his lungs before he says, “We do it together.”
“Agreed.”
“Just give me a little time. There’s so much shit with this man after my sister, this fucking story and the damn press, and then there’s Mama G.” The pain hits his face. “We just can’t bomb her life. Okay?”
“Okay” because I need the time too.
It wasn’t supposed to go this far. It wasn’t supposed to feel this strong.
Yes, I told Cade I was attracted to Redix. She’s got to be used to that from women and men because he’s the goddamn sun of gravity pulling people to him. But all I want is Redix and to pull Cade into my arms and give her answers I don’t have yet.
And what does Redix want?
I see a man with a big heart who’s searching, who deserves something real and safe that won’t hurt him anymore because he’s fought so hard to survive. He needs to be free, too.
I can’t answer that question for him. But I’m willing, no, I want to ask it with him, with Cade too. I’ve always been a rebel, and this is the hill I’ll die on.
It’s mindless; my steps up the ladder. We both need air. We both need time. I just kissed Redix Dean, and I want much more than that with him, and I love Cade Bryant.
I gotta find my steps and my goddamn mind as I grab a fresh breath of air and emerge from the cabin. Redix is waiting at the bottom of the ladder. I glance back at him and smile before turning my head to glance across the marina’s dock.
“Oh shit.” I duck down.
“What?” Redix is too loud.
“Quiet.” I peek back up over the edge of the helm’s window to be sure.
Bald head. Chest like a barrel. Eyes like a shark. I’ve seen his picture on Cade’s laptop, in her police files. I know those eyes, and they’re searching our way.
“What the fuck, man?” Redix whispers.
“The guy. The one who went after you and your sister. He’s got a mudflap girl tattoo, right?”
His nostrils flare. “Yeah.”
“He’s fifty feet away at the top of the ramp and looking this way.” I jump back down the ladder and secure the hatch closed.
Redix rushes to the cabin window and pulls a curtain aside. “I’m gonna fucking kill him.”
“Not if he kills you first.” Redix glances back as I warn, “He followed you here, dude. Gotta be. I bet he’s been following you the whole fucking time. It’s you he’s after. Not her.”
