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“Why did you kiss me that night?” I finally asked. That question had plagued me for years, ever since the night Wes was killed.
The cover snapped off the bed and Austin rolled over behind me. “I planned on leaving town that night; I was trying to talk Wes into going. Hell, I thought hewasgoing. We had a deal, but Wes wanted to be Breed, wanted immortality so much it blinded him from making the right decision.”
“What decision?”
“He got mixed up with the wrong people, and they asked him to be a hitman. I told him the last thing he ever wanted was to be in debt with one of us. Breed don’t mess around when it comes to paying debts. I guess he didn’t have it in him to do what they wanted, and he paid with his life.”
Tears sprang up and I pressed my face against the pillow. Austin’s hand touched my hip.
“Don’t,” I warned him. He immediately retracted. “Is that all, or are you hiding something else?”
“There’s nothing else.” Then his voice switched over to dark and threatening. “One of these days, I’m going to find out who he was bargaining with, and they’re going to pay with their life.”
“So why did you kiss me?” I asked again.
Austin didn’t answer but rolled over and pounded on his pillow a few times before settling in. I had a feeling I might never know the answer to that question, and maybe there was no answer. Maybe all these years I had built up in my head something that had meant nothing to him.
I sat up, unhooked my bra, and tossed it to the floor.
“Take off your pants,” he said.
God, if those words didn’t heat me up. “I’m fine.”
“Lexi, I can’t see in the dark. Get comfortable,” he insisted, shifting in the other direction.Indifferently.
I mentally sighed and tugged off my jeans, sliding between the crisp sheets. The window unit chilled the air with every passing second.
“Promise to take me home tomorrow?” I asked.
Silence, at first.
“Austin?”
“I promise.”
