Page 17 of Fated Redemption
“No way! I have to defeat the Red ones. Die! Red! Die!” There was a pause. “But, if you’re coming home, can you stop and get me some cookies? Love you, bye bye!” she said sweetly, which added a whole dimension of scary to her color induced death rant. Then the line went dead.
Kate had just dissolved into sobs, and Nic was sobbing right along with her.
Felix looked at Maddox, they sighed. Not saying a word they both stood and each placed a balled-up fist on their palms.
“One, two, three.” Maddox threw paper and Felix threw rock.
“Thank goodness. You get to deal with Rebecca.” Maddox let out a relieved sigh.
“I’ll trade you for a blow job,” Felix offered.
“It’s Rebecca.”
“Two blow jobs.” Felix held up two fingers.
“It’s an over-caffeinated Rebecca, who is hallucinating and possibly armed, as she tries to defeat the color red!” Maddox exclaimed.
“Three blow jobs, a rim job and I’ll do that thing you like when I do you know what,” Felix countered.
Maddox took a deep breath. “Deal. But if I get shot, you get tied up all weekend.”
Felix’s eyes lit up. “Aleks, does she have her gun with her?” he asked eagerly.
“I don’t know! Fuck!” Aleks looked like he was two seconds away from crushing his phone.
The sound of hands clapping together had everyone looking at Ashby. “Okay people, here is what we’re going to do. Aleks, Maddox and I will head to the Arkadion Ranch. We’ll do whatever it takes to get Rebecca back to normal.”
“Normal?” Rian snorted. Ashby glared at him.
“Nic, Sebastian, Felix, you three head to Kate and see what is wrong. It’s not like her to get depressed. That woman doesn’t know the meaning of ‘self doubt’.” Ashby bit his lower lip worriedly.
“You boys go and don’t worry about these little ones. They can stay with me, unless Gabriel, Kent and Liam want to pick them up later,” Ma said, standing beside the car seats.
Rhys stood. “What can we do to help?” Beside him Moe stood nodding.
“Moe, can you go to Kate? She likes you and always smiles at your nickname,” Ashby asked.
“Sure.”
“Rhys, you’re with us. We may need your vampiric speed to catch Rebecca and scrape her off the darn ceiling.” Ashby sounded exasperated.
Rhys turned to Moe.
“Have fun.”
“You too, don’t let Rebecca shoot you.” A smile twitched on Moe’s lips. Rhys leaned forward and kissed his mate, surprising him. Moe leaned down and whispered.
“Love you.”
“Love you too.” Rhys brought Moe’s hand up and kissed his knuckles before heading out with Ashby, Maddox and Aleks.
“Dammit, Rebecca, I could be eating cheesecake right now!” Ashby said, sounding surly.
“I was winning, why did you take my coffee?” Rebecca demanded.
“Because you’re about to go into arrhythmia!” Maddox exclaimed.
“I didn’t want to have to do this.” Ashby turned to Maddox. “Sedate her.”
