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Don’t call me that, I thought at him, wondering if tone translated via my thoughts and added a helping of haughtiness. He tugged me back a few paces, but I kept up, just in time to see a line of bullets strike the area where we’d just been hiding with near perfect precision. It shook me to the core.
Maybe Kade had been right about the danger. Maybe.
“I can hear thoughts even over a distance,” he explained under his breath. “If I focus or if the person is particularly loud, I can pick up patterns or sort of make a prediction. We need to get out of here, as I’ve been saying.”
I nodded, reading between the lines and hearing the things he wasn’t saying, and allowed him to lead the way, mirroring his steps like I had done earlier, so we could get to some sort of relative safety.
Several blocks, three random fences, a multitude of alleyways, and two dozen turns later, we both leaned against a dumpster, panting in exhaustion. My head pounded, my breath rattled in my lungs, and sweat dripped down my face.
“You have a lot of explaining to do, Mind Guy.”
“Another ridiculous moniker,” he said with a chuckle. “We need to keep moving, and I promise I’ll explain, Caity-bug, but I can’t trust we haven’t been followed. It isn’t too much further.”
“The last time I went to your house, I was unconscious for days. Not sure it’s looking like the best option for me, Brain Scanner.” I caught my breath finally and my heartbeat slowed down.
“Ugh,” he shook his head, and then clutched his side. “The damn fence I climbed over didn’t do me any favors. Come on, Strong Hold, we need to move.”
“What?” I wasn’t happy when he threw a stupid nickname at me in return. “That’s not my name.” What had happened to him calling me by cute little terms of endearment?
“Let’s go.” Kade grabbed my hand, and tugged me toward him. “We need to get out of here, The Brawn and the Beautiful.”
“I like that one.” I blinked up at him. “But it’s not going to fit on the back of my cape.”
I couldn’t believe we were joking around with goofy nicknames while literally in the middle of running for our lives, but when I was with Kade, I did a lot of things that didn’t make sense.
“You can shorten it, but think of the epicness of the news articles you’ll star in,” he teased back as he led us down another alleyway, farther away from danger. “I don’t recommend a cape anyhow.”
“News articles and capes,” I scoffed. “Fine. You win this round.”
“Oh, Caity-bug, I win every round. Just wait and see.”
We continued on while I marveled over the perfect trust I had placed in him tonight. It wasn’t just his kisses I had missed. From the second I had left his house, I had missed him. His touch, his smell, and his protection. I missed all of those things. Kade felt safe, and in turn I felt protected. I squeezed his hand. He glanced over his shoulder and smirked.
We just might make a good team after all.
