Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
My gaze shot back to him. “You have cameras in there?”
“By the end of the day, we’re gonna have a lot of cameras everywhere.”
I wasn’t sure what to make of this.
Worse, I wasn’t sure what Raye would think about it. She was the numero uno Angel, and it wasn’t like we didn’t all take it seriously, but she seriously took it seriously, and I was sensing she didn’t want the guys to butt in.
“Do the Angels know about this?” I asked.
“Don’t know. I been with you. I haven’t had a brief. I just know Mace gave out our assignments last night, and we’re not taking any fuckin’ chances with this shit.”
All right.
So, okay, maybe it wasn’t all that Angelic to think this, but that made me feel better.
Then again, I’d read the Rock Chick books.
“Okay,” I said.
He appeared to relax.
“Though, why isn’t Knox on Luna?” I queried, mostly out of curiosity.
“Whatever that is, lil’ mama,” he said in a listen-I’m-imparting-wisdom tone, “don’t stick your nose into it.”
I thought this was very good wisdom to impart, thus, I nodded.
“So, you gonna text me what you need to make your thing for tonight?” he asked.
I nodded again.
His lips curved. He leaned toward me. I started holding my breath again (which was a good call), because he reached out with just two fingers. He put them to the soft flesh under my chin, exerted the most minimal pressure possible, but even so, I listed to him like I was on the end of a fishing line.
Our lips met. His tongue touched mine. I opened. He angled his head. I tipped mine.
And then we went at it in the cab of his truck.
I was panting and holding on to his neck when he broke our connection.
“Get to work, baby,” he murmured.
It took some effort to pry my hands from his warm skin, but I did it while nodding.
“Have a good day,” he said as I hopped down from his truck.
I turned to him and chirped, “You too.”
He got that adoring look on his face again.
I shut the door to his truck before I lost the fight with my control and crawled back into it…and onto him.
He continued to idle while I walked to the staff entrance, so I gave him a stupid wave at the door.
He jerked up his chin, a handsome smile on his face.
I ducked into the staff area at the back of SC that had a bench and our employee lockers.
I’d just stowed my bag, tied on my server’s apron, slipped my phone in the pocket and turned.
And that was when I let out a scream.
TEN
“SISTERS OF THE MOON”
(STEVIE NICKS [FLEETWOOD MAC])
Fanned out around me were Raye, Luna, Jessie, Shanti and Willow.
I was so into reliving Javi’s kiss and how sweet it was that he dropped me at work (deciding not to think about the part where he semi-kinda kidnapped me so I didn’t have my own car), I hadn’t heard them come up behind me.
“Did you have sex with Javi?” Luna demanded to know.
“If you did, was it good?” Willow asked.
“Shut up, it was obviously good,” Shanti put in, eyeing me closely. “She might have her feet on the ground but look at her. She has her head in the clouds.”
This made me pause to ponder, because if he could kiss me in his truck and put my head in the clouds (and it was), what would having sex with him do to me?
I was in the midst of another hoo-ha quiver when Raye inquired, “Are we good?”
I gave all my attention to Raye.
“We’re good,” I told her.
“I was out of line,” she copped to it. “I couldn’t sleep all night thinking about what a bitch I’d been.”
“Bombs are dropping, children are starving, women are bleeding out in hospital parking lots because they’ve been denied access to necessary healthcare. Those are things to lose sleep over,” I replied. “You wanting me to have something I want, at the same time looking out for a friend who you thought I’d wronged isn’t.”
Raye made a self-deprecating scrunchy face. “I told you to use your words when I could have picked mine more carefully.”
This was absolutely true.
“My guess, this is never going to happen again,” I remarked.
“Never, ever, ever,” she promised.
I smiled. “So we’re good.”
I was ready for a hug from Raye to cement the end of that episode, but Luna butted in.
“Are you gonna lay off about Knox now?” Luna demanded of her bestie.
Raye turned to her. “No.”
Even though I felt Luna’s pain, I smiled wider, because they were cute, at the same time I decided I’d find a moment to take Raye aside and advise her to back off about Knox.
It was no fun being in that place, and it was only Luna and Knox that could work themselves out of it (if they ever did, and we had to back that play too).