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Missy
I perched my arms around Dash’s neck and dangled like a flimsy cape over his back, pounding and kicking him, screaming bloody murder while threatening him with slow torture and penile amputations. If he heard me, I couldn’t tell. His entire body was rigid against mine.
“Dash!” A familiar voice cried out behind me. “What on earth are you doing?”
Like a miraculous apparition, Thena swooped down onus. My jaw dropped. My big sister Thena was here, standing right next to me, as tall, willowy, blond, and beautiful as I remembered her to be.
“Hello, baby sis,” she said sweetly even as she grabbed onto Dash’s bulging forearm, the one he was using to pin down Javier. “A proper welcome as soon as we untangle these two jackasses. Javier, surely you can help end this madness?”
“Nope,” he drawled through his bloody lip, adding to my frustration. “I won’t.”
“Why not?” I demanded, also struggling to shift Dash’s other immovable arm.
“If the man wants to kill me, let him,” Javier rasped. “He’s got good reason.”
“Dashiell Dagger, you will let go of this man immediately,” Thena ordered in the stern tone of a Marine drill instructor. “Dash! Stop this fuckery, you big bag of testosterone. Let go of Javier. Now!”
Teeth gritted, Dash released Javier. Thena pulled her furious boyfriend to the opposite side of the suite. Javier fingered his throat and inhaled a few gulps of air.
“You’re bleeding!” I spotted the blood on his lips. “Are you okay?”
“Fine,” Javier rasped. “Let Omega do what he has to do. I totally get the guy.”
“Really?” I squeaked. “If that’s the case, then there’s more than one idiot in this room.”
“We talked about this,” Thena was saying to Dash across the suite. “I told you about the stars.”
“I remember.” Dash scrubbed his face. “I just can’t unsee what I saw.”
“What’s this about the stars?” I tossed the question out to Thena.
“I’ll explain later,” she called back.
“It’s a theory,” Dash said.
“It now appears to be a fact,” Thena stated sternly. “Dash Dagger, you’re going to have to give Javier a break.”
I was curious about this star theory, but a sudden fit of wrath had me whirling away from Javier and marching across the room. Along the way, the folded sheet parted before my legs and trailed my steps, snapping behind me like the tail of an angry dragon.
Mousy Missy was officially dead.
“You hurt him.” I poked an accusatory finger on Dash’s tactical vest. “What’s your problem? Why did you feel the urge to make him your personal punching bag?”
“He…” Dash hesitated, something I didn’t remember him ever doing. “He had a mission to accomplish. Instead, he took advantage of you.”
“Hetook advantage ofme?” I straightened to my full height, even though this still made me the shortest person in the room. “That’s a pretty primitive assumption on the part of your tiny, puny, deranged brain. How do you knowIdidn’t take advantage ofhim?”
“You?” Dash stared at me as if I’d lost my mind. “You’d never take advantage of anyone, baby girl. Ever.”
“Well, maybe you’re wrong.” I planted my fists on my hips. “You better get a hold of your caveman. You hurt the man who saved my life.”
Dash’s Adam’s apple rippled on his throat but at least he had the wisdom to keep his mouth shut.
“He was never going to truly harm Javier.” Thena’s lips twitched, diverting my attention from a baffled-looking Dash to her. “I promise.”
At last, I got a good look at her. She didn’t seem older than when I’d last seen her on that fateful day when we’d parted ways. Okay, so maybe the lines that cased her wide mouth haddeepened a touch, but this hardly mattered. She broke out into the warm smile I’d missed so much, the one that lit up her gray eyes and made them shimmer like pearls.
