Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 72969 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72969 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
But already I know Hawk wouldn’t hurt a fly. Only a wall.
I grab his wrist. His knuckles are bleeding. “Let me take care of that for you.”
“I’m fine.” He glances at the wall. “Sorry for that. I’ll have someone come by and repair it tomorrow.”
“Hawk, I don’t care about the wall. I care about you. Come on.”
I lead him through my small living area to the second of my bathrooms, where I keep first-aid supplies.
I pull out the plastic box and open it. Then I start running water. “Come on, wash your hands.”
“Yeah, okay.” He obeys me, pumping soap out of the dispenser and washing his hands thoroughly.
I watch the strands of blood go down the drain.
Blood.
No matter where I go in my life, no matter what I do, I always seem to see blood.
Hawk’s hand is so large in my own. I spritz Bactine over his knuckles and then bandage him up with Band-Aids.
“Does it hurt?” I ask.
Hawk shakes his head. “When you’ve been tossed off a busting bronco, you learn to deal with pain.”
I nod.
Then he takes his bandaged hand and cups my cheek. Shivers course through me at the contact.
“I promise you, Daniela. I promise that we will get to the bottom of this.”
I nod again. “Thank you. Thank you for coming when I called.”
He burns his gaze into mine. “I’ll do whatever I have to do to protect you. I will get security on you, and I’m going to stay here until Vinnie and Raven get home.”
25
HAWK
Damn.
I almost wish I had brought Eagle with me. I could use a third wheel about now.
I could also use a shower. I’m dirty as shit from digging.
I can’t ask Daniela to let me use her shower.
I don’t have a change of clothes here anyway. Though I could probably borrow something from Vinnie.
“Daniela,” I say.
“Yeah?”
I draw in a long breath. “As you can see, I kind of need a shower.”
Her cheeks redden.
“You think we could go into the main house? I could shower in one of the guest bathrooms and borrow some clean clothes from Vinnie.”
She blinks for a few seconds before speaking. “You…can use my shower.”
Fuck.
“I could, but I don’t think any of your clothes would fit me.” I let out a nervous chuckle.
She reddens even further.
“Yeah, of course.”
She leads me to the back of her flat to a door. She keys in a code, and the door opens into the main house. A stairway stands in front of us, and she leads me upward and then to a vacant bedrooom.
“This is the room I use when I stay in this part of the house,” she says. “You can shower here. I’ll go ahead and get some clothes from Vinnie for you to put on.”
“Thanks.”
I go into the room and close the door, locking it behind me.
I walk straight into the en suite bathroom, start the shower, and shed my dirty clothes. I don’t want to leave a mess, so I fold them and set them on the counter. Then I step under the hot shower and let it pelt me.
What a fucking day.
Someone took Diego Vega’s body—or who we thought was Diego Vega—out of the ground on our property. But Eagle’s right. Whoever did it left the drugs. So it sure as hell wasn’t my brother.
And now?
Someone is threatening the woman I—
I stop the thought abruptly.
The woman I… What?
I don’t know.
All I know is I’m having feelings that I’m not sure I’ve ever had before.
My dick is hard and throbbing, and though I hate the idea of jacking off in the shower that Daniela probably uses, I do it anyway.
After all, I volunteered to stay here until Vinnie and Raven get home, and I can’t have a raging hard-on the entire time.
Though I probably will no matter what.
I wash the dirt and silt off my body, give my hair a thorough cleansing not once but twice, and then rinse off.
I step out of the shower, wrap a towel around my waist, and use another to dry my hair.
My dirty clothes sitting on the counter remind me.
I have nothing to put on.
I shouldn’t have locked the door. Daniela could’ve come in and dropped off some clothes.
Of course, knowing she was in the room, that only a thin shower curtain separated her from my naked wet body…
Probably best that she didn’t come in.
But now what do I do? Walk around in a towel until I find something?
Raven lives here. I really don’t want to run into my sister in a state of undress.
And shit… Belinda lives here, too. The last thing she needs to see after everything she’s been through is a grown man she hardly knows walking around nearly naked.
I walk over to the door of the room, unlock it, and crack it just a bit to peek outside.
Sweet, sweet Daniela.