Page 149 of Savage Hearts

“Yeah? Do you have any inkling who it might be? Who would hate you enough to do something like this?”

I shrugged. “It’s as you said. We might just have a serial bomber on the loose.”

“Right.”

“We’ll leave you gentlemen to it,” I said. My eyes met Larkin as we passed, and he nodded slightly at us.

I waited until we were a distance away, and they couldn’t hear us before turning to my brothers. “Let’s get to the club. I want to coordinate with Emilio, and I want that fucker Cline found.”

It was time to go on the offense. I wasn’t going to let the fucker go. Not when he had expressed his interest in Mila. That was enough for me to want to kill him. This inconvenience, thisslight,was the icing on the fucking cake.

My brothers nodded their agreement, like I knew they would. Like I knew they would always have my back.

It wasclose to eleven o’clock at night when I came home to catch some sleep before I would be up in a few hours.

For the first time, I craved sleep.

I fucking craved it, but there was a chance I wouldn’t get it. The insomnia was getting harder to control.

Frustration tightened my skin as I trod up the stairs. I walked by Mila’s room with the lights still on. I wondered what she was doing up so late.

I hadn’t seen the little monster in a while, not with how busy things had been, trying to establish dominance in a territory that hadn’t been ours for a long time.

I should probably leave her alone. I was too fucking wired right now, and I wasn’t sure if I could possibly treat her with the kind of gentleness she might want from me.

I was never a gentle man. That didn’t change just because Mila was different from the other women I’d been with, and it didn’t change just because I wanted to be gentle with her.

I shook my head.

I wasn’t making any fucking sense, not even in my head.

I stopped by her door, listening in. It was all quiet. Not that I had expected her to make any noise, but there wasn’t even the sound of her getting ready for bed to comfort me.

I closed my eyes.

I should go to sleep.

Hell, I needed sleep. I couldn’t even remember a time when I’d slept for a full night.

The doorknob turning had me opening my eyes just in time to see Mila appear, like an apparition in a dream.

She startled when she found me standing there. “Jesus. You scared me. What are you doing in front of my door?”

I didn’t answer her. Instead, I took her in from head to toe.

She was dressed in a white T-shirt, and that was all. Considering Silas had stolen all her panties, I doubted she was wearing anything underneath. Hell. How could I possibly leave her and try to go to sleep now?

“What are you doing out?” I asked.

She frowned at me. “I’m thirsty.”

I nodded. “Go back in the room, sweetheart. I’ll get you water.”

I tried not to let her gaze get to me. I knew I didn’t succeed, not when my skin felt hot all of a sudden.

“Are you okay?” she asked.

“Go back in your room,” I said instead of answering her. She looked like she wanted to say something, but when I shot her a look, she smartly refrained, nodded, and went back to the room. I closed my eyes when the door shut behind her, wondering why I was so tired today.

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