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“You okay?” I asked, squeezing her tight.
“No,” she admitted. “But I will be,” she assured me. Then, “Take me home, Wells.”
And I knew she didn’t mean hers.
She wanted to be at my home.
With our dogs.
With me.
And that sounded like friggin heaven to me.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Mari
The interrogation had been so different than I’d been expecting.
First, I’d been anticipating having Wells do it.
Though, I understood why it was better for it to be someone else. In case anything ever came out about the relationship between myself and Wells.
As such, I felt a bit like a criminal myself as I was walked into an interrogation room, staring at myself in the two-way mirror, my focus going in and out, until, finally, Gawen moved into the room.
He was a nice guy.
There was something calming about him.
But, still, I wanted Wells.
I recalled the facts, and it was clear in the way Gawen was looking at me and guiding the questions that he was protecting Wells by making sure I didn’t say anything about things that were going on with us.
Luckily, there wasn’t much to say.
I was heading home after work. I mistook my attacker for the delivery order. Then I was taken.
No one needed to know where I’d been before work.
As for why Wells knew I was missing, well, that was his story to come up with.
After what felt like hours later, Gawen was leading me out of the room—tired, cold, starving. But more than anything, just aching to be alone with Wells.
The ride back to his house felt endless, even though I knew it was less than ten minutes. The sun was starting to beat down, making a headache scream in my temples as we pulled into the driveway.
“Tilly and Boss,” I said, voice pained.
“Yeah,” he agreed, and we rushed up the front path together. “They’ll be okay. It was an emergency,” he added, unlocking the door.
They were waiting just inside the door, and as soon as they saw us, made a mad dash toward the back doors, practically crossing their legs with the need to go out.
Wells moved ahead, taking charge, letting them out, then going back into the kitchen to make them breakfast.
I smelled coffee brewing, and walked numbly into the room to find him putting down the dog bowls.
I walked right to him as soon as he straightened.
His arms went around me automatically, but they were loose around me, holding me like I was glass just ready to shatter.
