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“Such a good girl,” I tell her.
When Wren comes, she pulls me with her, and I capture her cries in a heated, hazy kiss. My mind goes blank for a second, and when we break off the kiss, it takes a moment for me to catch my breath.
Wren’s eyes are bright as she watches me pull out of her. Her hand runs down my arm as my gaze snags on the blood still on her thigh. For the most part, the heart I carved into her leg has stopped bleeding, but we can’t leave it like that.
I give myself a minute before opening the cabinet below the sink and pulling out one of the many first aid kits we have stashed throughout the house. “We need to deal with your cut. Don’t want it getting infected.”
Wren stays quiet while I wipe up the blood and clean the cut. By the time I’m done bandaging it, she’s back to taking deep, even breaths. “I liked that,” she says when I step back.
“Liked what?”
“Everything. The way you cut into me, how it felt, what it means . . .” Her fingers trace around the bandage before she lifts her gaze to meet mine. “It felt special. Important. Like I really do belong to you.”
“Or—” The words catch in my throat.
“What?”
“Nothing.” I give her a smile before helping her off the counter, but the words continue echoing in my mind.
Or that I belong to you.
. . .
By the time Elliot breaks into the hard drive, we need to head back to Ludo’s mansion. Our plan only requires one of us plus Finn, but having backup never hurts. Elliot and Oliver both leave together in the first car, and Wren and I follow farther behind in the second.
Finn is already there when we get into our positions just after midnight. Ell and O are parked on the service road that runs on the side of Ludo’s property, and Finn is a couple houses down on the main road. We’re behind him, which is where we’ll stay unless we’re needed.
Now it’s a waiting game. Ludo should be in bed, and according to Aubrey, there should be a shift change soon. Once it’s underway, she’ll notify Elliot and Oliver, and they’ll notify us.
Wren jumps when Finn’s voice comes through our earpieces.
“Anything yet?” he asks.
“Nothing,” Elliot replies.
I glance down the street, but it doesn’t reveal anything. The stone wall surrounding Ludo’s property is too tall for me to see.
“What if they already had their shift change?” Wren asks me.
“Aubrey would’ve found a way to tell us.”
The wait is torture, but after another half hour, Elliot says, “She just hung the scarf from her balcony. Finn, you ready?”
“Absolutely.”
I barely hear the low rumble of Finn’s vehicle starting. He keeps his lights off as we watch the driveway’s gate carefully. Once it opens, a car’s headlights shine through—from one of Ludo’s men heading home for the night—and Finn takes off.
Just as the car is halfway through the gate, Finn slams straight into it. Wren cringes at the sound of crunching metal and breaking glass.
For a few seconds, nothing happens, and I’m worried Finn misjudged his pace. But his passenger door opens, and when he climbs out, he looks relatively unharmed. His shoulder will probably be sore tomorrow and he might have a mild case of whiplash, but he’ll be fine.
“What the hell were you thinking?” Finn shouts as he gestures toward his vehicle. “Have you never heard of looking both ways?”
The other guy gets out just as some of Ludo’s men run over to the gate. Relief floods me when I count four extra men. Just as we hoped, they all rushed to the scene.
“What happened?” one of them asks. “Are you okay?”
“He just . . . he came out of nowhere. I don’t know how I missed you, man.”
