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“I don’t care. Please, let’s do that. Oh please.” She grabbed his arm and he was pretty sure she wasn’t aware she was even doing it. “Please don’t change your mind. I know I’m acting like a psycho but I’ll behave.”
This was not the first time she’d apologized for her excitement and Asa decided if he ever met Logan Black again, he was probably going to jail.
He couldn’t be sure it was Logan who’d made Zara feel like she needed to be “less.” But he didn’t doubt it.
Fucker.
Instead of saying any of that though, he held out the shirt he’d brought upstairs.
She took it, giving him a curious look.
His stomach felt weird.
Good weird.
She unfolded the shirt and held it up.
If his stomach felt weird before, it was nothing compared to how his entire body felt when she laughed out loud.
Like he’d touched a shorted-out cord. Tingles raced over his skin and scalp and left him with a buzzing sensation in his fingertips.
Zara, completely oblivious to what was happening to Asa, held the shirt up against her body and showed Devan and Cas.
Devan cracked a smile and Cas’s eyes crinkled at the sides. That was the equivalent of a belly laugh from that guy.
The long sleeve tee was baby blue and too big for her; extra-large. Screen printed on the front in white was a very recognizable face and the words “Rick Astley is my emergency contact.”
“This is getting worntoday,” Zara declared. “I’ll be right back.” She ran upstairs.
Asa looked at Cas and Devan to find them both watching him. He forced a smile.
“This is a good idea, right?”
He didn’t expect an answer.
He didn’t get one.
ZARA
Zara met Cas’s eyes as Devan lowered the helmet onto her head.
“We’ll be right behind you,” Cas said, handing her an Air Tag which she slipped into her back pocket.
He didn’t look worried. Or even annoyed. Cas seemed…fine. Whatever that was about.
She knew her life wasn’t exactly normal. And yeah, sometimes she felt like a child when Cas and Devan had to check the house before she went inside. Or like right then when Cas handed her a pair of leather gloves.
Except she was also very aware that without them she probably wouldn’t be alive anymore. More than once, her profession had put her life in danger. And Cas and Devan had been there to keep her safe.
But this was regular life stuff. Not part of her profession. Going for a ride with a friend shouldn’t require her security detail going with her. She wasn’t the president.
Logan always hated it when they would go out and Cas and Devan would be nearby. He said it made him feel like he couldn’t be himself.
Asa hadn’t expressed any sort of feeling about Cas and Devan coming along. In fact, she was pretty sure Asa expected them to be there.
Huh.
She thought about the time they’d spent together when they werealonealone and the times when Cas had been around. Asa’s behavior was relatively the same on both counts.
