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“I’ll sort it.” Fucking hell. Why hadn’t he taken a minute to check with Juliet first? But his sister was a hot spot for him.
“You better sort it,” Juliet said. “I liked her.”
That surprised him. It usually took Juliet a long time to warm up to people. Hell, before she’d gotten involved with Brick and Xavier, she’d never called his office and spoken to a stranger.
Although, there was something about Faith that put people at ease.
“Now, enough about my assistant, tell me about this bad dream. And where are your men? Why aren’t they looking after you?”
“Xavier is at the hospital and Brick is at JSI.”
“What? No one is looking after you? Those assholes.” He was going to give them a piece of his mind.
“You do remember I’m an adult, right, Big Bad?”
“Don’t be getting sassy with me. You’re not too big for me to take over my knee.”
“I don’t think Brick and Xavier would be very happy if you did that.”
Like he cared.
“What was the dream?”
“It was about zombies eating your brains. I just wanted to make sure that hadn’t happened and that you’re taking precautions against zombies.”
“Juliet,” he said in a stern voice. “Have you been watching zombie movies again?”
“I plead the fifth.”
“No more zombie movies.”
“Are you being careful?” she asked worriedly. “I don’t want anything to happen to you.”
“Nothing is going to happen to me,” he soothed. All hint of sternness was gone from his voice. “I would never allow that to happen.”
“You promise? I don’t . . . I couldn’t live without you.”
“Hey, you won’t have to. Nothing will happen. I’m right here.”
He heard her take a deep breath and hated how broken it sounded, as if she was holding back her tears.
“I’m going to come visit, Mini. Okay? I’ll get a flight out there tomorrow or the day after.”
“No!”
He blinked in surprise.
“That was actually the other reason I was calling. Xavier, Brick, and I . . . we were wondering if we could come see you.”
Huh. That was unexpected.
“You want to come see me here?” he asked.
“Yes. Is that all right?”
“Of course it’s all right,” he said gruffly. “Just unexpected. You are always welcome to come see me, you know that.”
“I just miss you,” Juliet told him. “And we thought we’d visit you this time. Although, we want to stay at the Boston house. Manhattan is too much for Brick.”
