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“It means he has who he truly wants, and I can fuck off.” Blaze disappears before I can disagree with him.
With a sigh, Kane starts stripping from his clothes until he’s just in boxers. He steps in with me, grabs the body wash without a word, drops to his knees, and starts cleaning me off. His hand grazes my bruised ribs, and I hiss. “I’m sorry,Litso kukly.”
“It’s okay.”
“No, it isn’t.” He brushes his fingers over the bruises and bandages on my upper body. “None of this is okay. I want to end him.”
“I want to help you.”
“Absolutely not. This is my fight.”
“It became my fight when he put his hands on me. I want in, Kane. I know you don’t trust—”
“This isn’t about trust. I refuse to put you in any more danger. We’re already going to have the cops breathing down our necks for you disappearing, and now Lev is out there somewhere.”
“You don’t have the cops breathing down your necks because of me. I’ve been doing my daily check-ins and told them I needed to lay low. I have you covered until I can quit. And I can handle fucking Lev. He just caught me off guard, and that won’t happen again.”
Kane stares at me with those dark eyes for so long that I start to get nervous, and then he smashes his lips against mine, kissing me hard. My heart explodes in my chest, shivering head to toe. I tune out the pain and focus on Kane’s tongue against mine. He pulls away from the kiss and lays his forehead against mine. “I missed you,” he says gruffly.
“I missed you too.”
Kane kisses me one last time before standing. He helps me to my feet and washes my lower half gently. When he’s done, he turns on the showerhead, rinses me off, shuts the water off, and then kisses every mark Lev’s guy left on me. I let the tears run freely down my face, finally letting the emotion out of what happened to me. Kane kisses up my cheek, kissing my tears away. “He was going to rape me.”
Kane jerks back, fire burning in his eyes. “What did you say?”
“Lev had left the room, and he told me as soon as we were alone, he was going to take what was yours.” I swallow past the bile. “He was going to taint me for you.”
Kane closes his eyes, breathes deeply through his nose, and opens his eyes. “He’s yours to take care of.”
I didn’t need Kane’s permission, but I wasn’t going to do anything against his wishes.
Now that I have the go-ahead, that motherfucker is going to pay for what he did to me.
And Kane.
* * *
After we finished in the bathtub, he helped me get dressed and try to find Blaze. Kane sat me in Blaze’s room and went to search for him. The more time that passes, the more nervous I get. What he said in the bathroom is ingrained in my head. Does he really think just because Kane and I are trying to work things out, I don’t need him anymore? I need him just as much as Kane and Eli. Blaze gives me things that I can’t even explain.
Kane walks back into the room, and I look at him hopefully until he shakes his head. “I can’t find him. I tried to call him, but he won’t answer. I called Eli, and he hasn’t seen him, but he’s on his way home.”
“Let me try.” Kane hands me the phone and sits on the edge of the bed. I dial Blaze’s number, and after several rings, it goes to voicemail. “Blaze, I need you to call me back so we can talk. I still need you so much. Please.” I disconnect the call and hand the phone back to Kane.
“I don’t know what to do anymore,” Kane says. “It’s never been this bad.”
“We just have to get through to him. He’s still in there.”
“I’m not sure how to get to him.”
“You can’t give up on him.”
“I’d never do that. Blaze has been in my life a long goddamn time. Nothing can take him from me.”
Before I can answer, Blaze marches into the room, going straight to his closet. “What are you doing?” I ask.
“Packing.”
“Wait. Why?” I go to stand from the bed and almost collapse on the floor. Kane catches my arm with a warning look, and I shake off his hold. I slowly walk to the closet. “Blaze.”
