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Alexiis making me take a damn shower, and while I can tell that I need it, I also don’t feel ready to leave E’s door. I’ve already messed up so many times. I should have known all this was going on. Adrik basically had me stalking the girl since the moment we grabbed her. I never had a problem with it because I always believed it was out of a need to keep her safe, but now I see just how possessive it all was. How controlling he was about her movements but wanting to pretend like he wasn’t limiting her so instead, he would create fear of being anywhere that he wasn’t aware of.
I’m still mentally kicking myself when I push into the room at the end of the hall. I close the door behind me and flick on the lights when a flash of blonde perks up on one of the two beds. I jerk back in surprise.
“Shit,” I say as I startle. Laney rolls her eyes at me in response.
“Is Evie okay? What are you doing in here?”
I take in her red eyes and puffy cheeks. I heard her tell E the truth and when she left the room with tears in her eyes, something in my chest almost broke to go after her, but I couldn’t leave E.
“What areyoudoing in here?” I repeat her question back to her. I was told to use this room, so I’m not leaving. I look around for a change of clothes and find some adjustable scrubs in one of the drawers and decide they will have to do.
“I just needed to be close to her without her knowing I was close,” Laney tells me quietly.
I ignore the tears that stream down her face because that pain looks too familiar. “I’m guessing you told her and it didn’t go well?” Her tears stop.
“No it didn’t go well, but you know that. Don’t act like you weren’t across the hall the whole damn time.” She huffs in annoyance as she folds her arm across her impressive tits, pushing them up into her face. I do everything I can not to stare at them as I reply.
“How did you know I was there?”
This time she finally lets the facade drop and lays back on the bed. “I’m not an idiot, and I have an oddly impressive sense of smell. And you reek.” She turns on the bed to look at me. “Plus, the curtains in the rooms don’t go all the way to the ground. Your boots are fairly distinctive.”
Holy shit, this girl is impressive. “Why didn’t you say anything?” I ask.
“I knew you weren’t going to hurt her and frankly, I don’t want to be the reason anyone gets sent to the dungeon, so I just let it go and I figured Alexi would catch you soon enough anyway.”
I want to thank her, but I would rather make her feel better instead. “She might be upset, but she didn’t kill you. You have to know that with her, that means you’re already halfway to forgiveness.”
She shakes her head and returns to staring at the ceiling. “I don’t deserve her forgiveness.”
“Listen,” I say as I sit on the bed beside her, “E has been hurt a lot. She’s been lied to her whole life. But you did the one thing most of us don’t have the backbone to do. You told her the truth. You confessedandyou apologized. There isn’t anything more you can do right now. So you lying here, wallowing in self-pity, that’s not going to help anyone.”
I’m a fully trained assassin. I’ve been killing people for over twenty-eight years, and I have never once been caught. But when Laney jumps out of the bed and shoves those stupid cat ears between my ribs, and straddles me before I can blink, I don’t think I’ve ever been so impressed, scared, and turned the fuck on all at the same time ever in my life.
“Listen here, Havoc, I don’t know who you think I am but if you think that is what I’m doing, then you’re fucking delusional. I came in here to sleep AND be close just in case anyone tries to hurt my best friend. Yeah, there have been a few tears. But crying is nothing I will ever let anyone, let alone a heartless assassin, make me believe makes you less than. I’mnotwallowing!”
I stare at her in utter disbelief, afraid that if I move a muscle her fancy weapon will puncture a lung, or that she might feel the insane hard-on I’m rocking right under her cotton panties.
She steps down off the bed, removing herself from the danger zone that is my aching dick right now as she continues to speak. “I’ve also been trying to come up with a plan. I had just turned the lights out to take a short nap before I went and told the guys some of my ideas, assuming she hasn’t told them what I did and they don’t want to kill me. But even if they do, at least I can give them a decent plan to follow before they put my butt in the ground.”
At the mention of her ass, my eyes drop to it, and she notices. “Really?” she deadpans with one eyebrow cocked up.
“I was just looking to see if it was an ass worthy of keeping above ground.” I glance at it again before I smirk and say, “They can’t put something that fine in the ground.”
I watch as her cheeks turn red, and I don’t know if it’s from embarrassment or being turned on, but I sure as hell can’t remember the last time I was this fucking hard. I don’t move out of sheer will because I’m determined not to let her see it.
She sits down on the bed across from me and some of the tension lessens in my body. “So, what’s this brilliant plan you’ve come up with while you’ve been sitting in herenotwallowing?”
She stares daggers at me but as I look at the rainbow of pink on her, all I can think of is how much she reminds me of a damn unicorn. She’s all the colors at once; fierce, bright, and blinding. But she has all the ferocity that comes with a beast with a horn that could impale the strongest of metals. It’s equally as terrifying as it is beautiful.Just like her.
“I’ve been keeping tabs on everything happening, and I think that she needs to get somewhere safe. I overheard you and Alexi talking,” she barrels over me as I try to ask if she was stalking me and keeps going, “and I know she has a tracker. I’m assuming it’s a sophisticated one. So first, we need someone to volunteer to be her decoy. Do her normal thing on the island, stay up with her routine for a while so that we have time to get Evie out of here. Knowing Alexi, he’s going to want to take her to Russia. Evie will fight him on that, but I have a strong feeling he’s going to get his way because it actually makes the most sense. While she’s safe there, we can work out what we are going to do next.”
I hadn’t thought about the tracker and how we can use that to manipulate Adrik and get more time. If it’s crushed or destroyed, then he would know and he would also assume I made it here to save her. But, if we can keep the curtain over his eyes until she’s somewhere safe, then maybe that could work. The problem is, nowhere is really safe for her.
“That’s a decent idea,” I tell her, not wanting to give away the fact that my plan was to rip the tracker out, crush it, and send a big fuck you to the man that I trusted as my leader and friend for the past twenty-three years.
“Thanks,” she says, standing up and throwing her hair in a ponytail.
“Where are you going?” I ask her.
