Page 131 of Dangerous Mission
Aria waves it off. “It was dumb luck. The worst part was the duct tape on my arms.”
Anger rolls through me, making my eyes narrow.
“Easy tiger.” She nuzzles into my chest as I climb into the truck with her in my arms. “I hear you growling.”
“I was afraid that you had been bound.”
“I wasn’t scared of that, weirdly, as long as I could run or hike, I was fine. I even managed to knock the bad guy out with the flashlight with my hands bound.”
“You knocked him out?” I ask, shocked.
Beast looks at me in the mirror, his eyes narrowing as he grins. “Boy, you’re so toast.”
I roll my eyes as Truck chuckles next to me and Justice covers a laugh with a cough.
After the laugh, silence fills the truck as Beast drives toward the farm. I rest my chin on Aria’s crown and watch the scenery passing.
Everything feels so right.
Aria.
The team.
My life.What the hell?
I never thought I’d have someone. Letting someone holdor touch me was so far outside my scope, I just didn’t think it could happen. But with Aria… I want it all. I want the future that I tried to end.
That’s something we need to talk about. I don’t want anything between us.
Chapter Sixty-Six
I drop my head back with a purr in my throat. “Your hands are amazing.”
Warm water sloshes around us as Scout kisses my wrist—the one he just cleaned along with every other part of me. Some parts twice.
When he deposits my hand on his thigh, on his scars, I let myself look at the unevenly-colored, tangled lines in his flesh. He doesn’t seem to notice where my hand and my gaze is at all, his hands are busy lathering my other arm.
“You make them feel better,” he says huskily.
A warm flutter in my tummy makes me shift. “Same for mine.”
I barely even thought about the scars around my wrists this afternoon after he found me. Well, I sort of found him. Thanks to my leaf shoe antics.Thank god.
If they had passed that part of the road, lord knows when I would have been found.
Scout’s promise to embed a tracking device in my arm was in jest, but I would have gladly offered my flesh if I’d known what was going to happen.
“How do your feet feel?” He draws me out of my rambling thoughts back to the present where I’m warm, safe, and very much feeling loved.
I purr in my throat,mmm,and lean my head back against his large and very comfy shoulder. Who knew a human pillow could feel so good? I think we’re going to need a big tub like this wherever we live.
“I can’t even feel them right now, in a good way.”
Smiling, I wiggle my legs where they are sticking over the edge of the tub so my bandages don’t get wet. “Whatever you guys put on them is amazing.”
He chuckles softly. “Secret sauce.”
“Well, it’s far better than Mickey D’s secret sauce.”
