Page 37 of When He Fights
Zuri and Ana and George were still crouched near the edge of the massive tank.
Kane glowered at Ana.“You never let me kill anyone.That is a major problem, sweetheart.”
“OhmyGod.”A quick breath from Zuri.“I take it back.I do not want one.I like tolookat one.Especially when he’s all wet and dripping.And super hot.But I don’t want one.You keep him.”
Ana leapt to her feet.I want him.I would love to keep him.She threw herself at Kane and wrapped her arms around him as tightly as she could.“Thank you,” she whispered.
One powerful arm curled around her.
“You saved my life,” she told him.Her head tilted back.She gazed up at him.Found his intense eyes blazing at her.Seeming to eat her up.A ragged sigh broke from Ana.“What took you so long?”A flippant question.One created by nerves and fear, and she didn’t even know what else.
The faint lines on the sides of his mouth deepened.“Getting tased slowed me down a little.Won’t happen again.”
Getting tased?
Before she could question him more, his mouth took hers.A deep, hard, frantic kiss.One that she had not expected at all.Not with Turner sobbing near them.Not with Zuri whipping out her phone and calling the cops again.Not with George—well, George seemed to be busy trying to figure out what in the hell was going on.
She didn’t expect the kiss.
Wrong place.Wrong time.
She didn’t care.Adrenaline and fear poured through her veins.Her hands curled greedily around Kane’s arms as she held on tightly, and Ana kissed Kane back with wild abandon and true desperation.She opened her lips wide.His tongue thrust into her mouth.He tasted, and he took, and she moaned low in her throat as arousal flooded through her.
Wrong time.Wrong time.Wrong time.
She didn’t care.She kissed him as if her very life depended on the task.As if?—
Someone yanked her back.
Ana’s breath sawed in and out.Her gaze collided with Kane’s.
Hunger.Possession.So much lust.
“The cops are coming!”Zuri informed her.“Stop making out with the hero and talk to me!”She tugged Ana toward her.“What is happening?Why did Turner attack you?”
Her heart still drummed.“Pretty sure…” Ana stopped and cleared her throat.“Pretty sure he got an order to kill me.”
Zuri’s eyes were huge.“Whywould he get an order to kill you?Who would even give that order?”
She wasn’t supposed to say, was she?Wasn’t that the whole point of having a new ID?A new place to live, courtesy of the US government?Except, if Turner had been there formonthswaiting on the order to attack, then her cover had been blown for ages.Her location hadn’t been leaked in a recent hack.Logan had known for a long time exactly where she’d been hiding.
If her cover had been blown so completely, then why bother with more lies?
Ana exhaled.“So, I have this ex who was a mob hitman.”
Zuri’s jaw sagged open.
“I’m pretty sure he’s angry that I sent him to prison.”Pretty sure?More like one hundred percent sure.“He’s not going to rest until I’m in the ground.”
Terror flashed on Zuri’s face.
“But don’t worry,” Ana hurried to reassure her friend, “Kane’s here.”
“Kane,” Zuri echoed as her attention shifted to him.
“He’ll make sure I keep breathing,” she said.
Zuri nodded.Weakly.
