Page 102 of My Revenant
Jonah panted. “Kiss me. Then clean me up.”
“Of course, baby,” I chuckled, rolling him over to steal his lips hungrily.
“And you’re sleeping inside me,” he mumbled against my lips.
“Of course, baby.”
thirty-seven
Dex - Past
TROUBLE.
“We have to run,” Jonah told me, hands holding mine and panic in his beautiful brown eyes. Still burning like fire, but a fire uncontrolled. A fire burning too rapidly. Unpredictable. Threatening to consume him and everything in his path.
I placed a soft kiss on his forehead. Over the past two days he’d been volatile, switching between panicking about what he and Henrik had done and clinging to me like a life raft in a storm. Like he needed me more than air. He needed me just tobe. Just when I thought he’d stabilized, Deltran Police Force had found the bodies.
I’d tried and failed to contact Henrik. He wouldn’t answer his phone, not to me, not to Jonah when I stole his phone, and not to any of the Strays I’d called. No one had seen him, and the bastard better have been dead or dying to disappear after all the shit he had caused.
While I wanted to hunt him down and get some fucking answers, Jonah was increasingly becoming a flight risk, and I didn’t want to leave him alone for even a moment.
“I won’t let anything happen to you, Rabbit,” I promised him. “I can’t leave here, not while the Strays need me, but if it comes down to it, and there’s no other way, then we’ll go. Okay, baby? I won’t let anyone hurt you or take you away from me.” Words spoken with a calmness I didn’t feel. But I wouldn’t let him see it. I was his anchor, and an anchor needed to be strong, firm,immovable.
“What if you get hurt again?” he asked, hands holding mine tighter.
“I won’t.”
“You don’t know that!”
“I’m just going to go to work, baby. It’ll just be me and Roy. There’s no danger there.”
It was a lie.
I intended to go to work. Roy had been accommodating of me taking even more time off, but he needed more of an explanation, and I needed to get Jonah’s car finished. Maybe if he had his own way of getting around, he’d be able to relax a little more, knowing he wouldn’t be trapped in place without me to take him everywhere. I just hoped he’d never use it to run without me.
After the shop, though, I was going to find Henrik.
“Why don’t you call Bee? She can come hang out here, or I can take you to her place on the way to work.”
“No,” he answered quickly. “I don’t want her to know.”
“You don’t have to tell her anything you don’t want to.”
“I can’t lie to her. She’s too perceptive. Pisses me off.”
I kissed his forehead again, if only to cover the smile that threatened to pull at my lips. “Okay, I won’t be long. And I’ll have my phone on me, so if you need anything at all, you just call me, Rabbit. Whatever I’m doing, I’ll drop it to answer you.”
Jonah huffed, burying himself in my arms as he locked his own in a cage around me, pulling me close and tight. I held him back the same way.
“Everything will be okay, baby.” I’d make sure it was.
Jonah shook his head, arms tightening around me. “No.”
“No?”
“No, don’t leave me.”
I sighed, rubbing his back soothingly. “I need to go to work.”
