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“I’ll see you early.”
Closing her door, I breathe a sigh of relief. I pad down the hallway, scooping up Pirate as I kiss him on the head and lay him on the bed.
When I hear the shower water running, I don’t even hesitate to strip down to nothing and join Rock. I need to be close to him.
He looks up when I enter. His eyes skate down my body as he takes me in.
He’s washed all the blood off of him, his clothes in a pile on the floor.
I climb in, taking tentative steps as we watch one another.
“Rock?” I say. “Is everything okay?”
“How is Tara?”
I smile. “She’s fine. She’s going home tomorrow.”
He doesn’t say anything.
“She’ll be leaving early. I’ll see her out.”
He nods. “I never wanted to come between you two.”
“I know that. She knows it, too. She’s just being overprotective.”
A long silence hangs between us.
“Never wanted you to find out this way,” he mutters with a shake of his head.
He turns his back on me and dips his head under the water, pushing the hair off his face before his gaze meets mine again.
As he pulls me to his body, I wrap my arms around his neck and reach up onto my tiptoes. “Find out what?”
He sighs. “If I tell you, you can’t say shit to anyone. If you do, it’ll be the end of us.”
I shake my head. “I won’t say a thing.”
“It involves…killing people.”
My eyes go wide. “Oh, Rock, what did you do?”
He shakes his head, pain laced in his words and in his eyes as he lets me go. “We got into a bad situation, and guns were used. You don’t need to know who or where, just that it happened, and they were bad guys…”
“I’m just glad you’re okay.” If he had to do this, there’s a reason.
“Remember when I said that I’m not a good guy, that there isn’t anything redeemable in me?”
I nod. “Yes, and you’re still wrong about that.”
He stares at me, his beautiful eyes dark and dangerous as my breath hitches in my chest. “What if I said I enjoyed it?”
I swallow hard. “Enjoyed killing people?”
“Yes.”
“I’d say that you’d have good reason to feel that way.”
He laughs without humor. “You’re too trusting, Trouble. It’s one of the things I love about you the most.”
