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“You're having a nightmare,” I said and pulled her away so I could look into her eyes. “We are in a motel, remember? No one will hurt you—”
“I thought they took you,” she gasped out.
My heart stopped in my chest. My hands that were rubbing small circles in her back paused.
“What?” I breathed.
“My nightmare,” she explained. “They came to get you. They took you from me—I couldn't find you.”
Her words were like a punch to the stomach.
I thought that she had been reliving her life at Russell’s, that the nightmares that I tried to take her from still plagued her… but she was worried aboutme.
I couldn't quite understand how I felt.
My chest was twisting. My stomach hurt… but there was a joyous feeling threatening to burst at the seams.
She was worried about me.
She hadn't responded to my declaration of love yet, but she didn't need to because her actions and her words already told me everything that I needed to know.
The little agent was just as enamored with me as I was with her.
“Because they're not gonna take me,” I said with conviction.
I was confident in my abilities as an assassin. I've traveled the world for most of my life running from people just like the ones that are coming after us now. I knew what we had to do, and I had a plan.
We would travel as far as we could to a remote town where we wouldn't be bothered. We'd stay there for a few weeks before moving on to another one. Each time we moved, we would get farther and farther away from the people who chased us.
It would be hard. We wouldn't be able to live the perfect life, at least not until they gave up.
But at some point, they would realize that I wasn't going to be caught as easily as they wanted. The guild would be pissed. Of course they would want repayment for the botched job, but they weren’t going to take away valuable resources from jobs that would guarantee money.
“You don't know that,” Blake whispered. Her eyes traveled across my face. Her fingers reached up to trace the line of my nose and cheekbones.
She was committing them to memory.
Just like I had done to her so many times. The dim light of the motel room was just enough so that I could make out her features but also the sparkle of tears in her eyes.
Had she really worried so much about me?Had it hurt herthatmuch?
“I’m gonna try my hardest to get us to where we need to go,” I promised, hoping she could feel how serious I was. “You trust me, right?”
She gave me a smile.
“If I didn't trust you, I wouldn't be here right now,” she said. “You saved my life, in more ways than one.”
You saved mine, the words were on the tip of my tongue. I wanted to tell her how dull my life had been before her. How meaningless every single day had been.
How I had longed for something exciting.
Leaving with her meant leaving behind everything that I knew, but in exchange, I got to experience something that I never had before.
“Then trust that I'll get us out of here.”
Her eyes shifted to the darkness of the room, avoiding my gaze.
“I just feel so useless,” she whispered. “Like all I'm ever good for is running and fucking.”
