Page 43 of Deathless & Divided

“What else do you do besides track girls down at clubs, work out, and watch news broadcasts on silent?”

“Are you asking about my job?”

Lily pursed her lips, her stare flitting between him and the spot where he’d answered the phone. “Yeah, I suppose I am.”

“I do what the boss wants me to do, Lily.”

“Anything?” she asked.

“Yes.”

The second shiver that crawled up her spine came for an entirely different reason than the first. It was a hell of a lot colder, too.

Anything was vague enough for Lily’s imagination to run wild but pointed enough for her to understand without him directly saying it.

“So, you’re not like my brothers, right?” she asked.

“And I’m not like Tommas, either,” Damian said.

“Huh.”

“That bothers you, doesn’t it?”

“A little,” she admitted.

“There’s a reason why they call me Ghost, Lily.”

“Oh?”

“Yeah, because they never see me coming and they don’t hear me leave.”

Lily thought about Dino and the vague reasons she had been given as to why Damian was his first pick for her. Maybe aligning her with one of the most dangerous men was Dino’s way of keeping her safe. She wasn’t sure how she felt about that.

“Because you’re invisible,” Lily said.

“In the most important ways.”

“How?”

“The ways that keep me from getting caught,” Damian answered.

Damian turned all the way around and crossed his arms over his broad chest. He nodded at her and said, “You look good in my shirt.”

The statement was so random it took Lily off-guard. His voice had lowered an octave, turning it into that rich, dark tone. An instant heat bloomed in her sex and spread to her stomach.

“Do I?” Lily whispered.

“Yeah. It’s a shame you have to take it off only to put that damn dress back on.”

Good God.

“I don’t know how to do this,” she said softly.

Damian didn’t move a muscle. “Do what?”

“Be okay with this.”

“The marriage thing?”