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CHAPTER15
“You are just going to have to trust us a little longer, okay, Chris?” Bloom said.
“Are you sure this will work, though? You have to stop it before…” Chris started to say, but seemed to stop herself. “I don’t want to see anyone else get hurt.”
“Get hurt? Don’t worry, Chris. Dax and his men know what they are doing. I’ll be fine. They’ll be fine. We’ll all be fine.” She rubbed Chris’s shoulder to reassure her.
She doesn’t look reassured.
Chris and her daughter had opted to stay put at The Tree. She was beginning to wonder what would become of them really. She didn’t mind putting them up, but she couldn’t house them forever, even if she had grown to enjoy their company. But until they dealt with those thugs, or were satisfied that they had lost interest in Fae Crossing and moved on, Chris showed no interest in so much as stepping outside of the safe confines of The Tree.
Maybe those men are already long gone.
It was a nice thought, but she didn’t really believe it.
I wonder what Dax thinks?
She missed him, she realized. It had only taken a week of reconnecting for the old feelings to come flooding in.
She looked at her phone, half expecting it to ring right then. He had established a rather uncanny way of showing up almost every time he came to her mind.
Which would be all the time as this point.
But, true to form, she did not have to wait more than a few minutes before her phone rang.
“Bloom,” he said, a little breathlessly.
“Dax,” she said in turn. Unless she was imagining things, their interactions had definitely taken on a new tone… a warmer tone.Warmer my ass. The guy practically drips “sexy”.
“Are we gonna get these guys or what?”
“Damn right, we are. We have a plan in place and I just wanted to run it by you.”
Things have changed.
“You don’t think it’s possible that they have already moved on, do you?”
“Not a chance,” he said without a moment’s hesitation.
“How can you be so sure?”
“Call it instinct, or I don’t know. I just know this isn’t over.”
“I was hoping you would change my mind, but I feel the same.”
“Right, okay,” he said.
He began to outline his plan B.
“Got it. I really hope this works, though, and quickly. I don’t think I can stand listening to Marius drone on a third time.”
“Your sacrifice is noted,” he said wryly.
“I like the adjustment, though. We need to make ourselves as visible as possible. But you’re not worried about collateral damage or any humans seeing what they shouldn’t? Isn’t that like a big no-no for shifters? Even more so than for fae?”
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” he said. “It is most definitely a ‘no-no’ as you call it, but we have to risk it considering the situation. There is no way we are letting some drug epidemic take hold in Fae Crossing.
“Preaching to the choir,” she said. “You know I am with you on this or I wouldn’t be doing it. Obviously,” she added.
