“How does it feel to be that in love? To bethatloved?”
Tears well in her eyes, and beneath our hands, her heart pounds faster. “It’s scary. It’s the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced, because what if something happens to him again? I already lost him once. I can’t do that again. I won’t survive him again.”
“So what choice do you have?”
Her teary eyes turn hard. Reaching over to the bedside cabinet, she snatches up her cell and brings it between us. “I can’t fall out of love.” Her thumb slides across the screen. “I won’t leave him, because of that stupid love thing.” She taps the screen, then brings the cell to her ear. “So my only option is to beat him up regularly and make sure he doesn’t do stupid shit.”
“Is he a bad man, Jessie?” Finally, I let a smile tug my lips. “Does he do illegal stuff?”
Her eyes meet mine as the sound of dialing slides through the room. “As his lawyer, it’s my duty to say no comment.” Her eyes flash. “Kane Bishop! Where are you?”
“We’re driving.” His voice is deep enough, loud enough that I can hear him in the otherwise silent room. “Are you in danger, Blondie?”
“No. You are.”
“Do you need Spence? Do you have your gun?”
I shoot back and study my sister with new eyes. “You have a gun?”
“Hush.” She gives a flirty little wink, then transforms back to angry. “I don’t need Spence. I need you to come back here right now, because I know when you wanna do illegal shit. I saw the twinkle in your eyes just before.”
The roaring of Angelo’s engine and wind whipping through open windows makes Kane talk louder. “The twinkle in my eyes? That was for you, beautiful. I only twinkle for you.”
“Dude.” Angelo’s single word makes Jess laugh, but when tears rush forward in my eyes, she locks it up.
“Come back here, Kane. I’m begging you.”
“Don’t beg, Jessica Anne. Don’t do that. I can’t come back right now, but soon. I’ll be back soon.”
“I want you now.”
“And I’ve got shit to take care of. But I love you; everything I do is because I love you.”