Total pages in book: 156
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Finally, she couldn’t take it anymore. Leaving the car, she raced toward them, ignoring Zander’s yell and Jared’s scolding, she threw herself at North.
There was a slight pull on her side, but nothing too bad. She was pretty much all healed up now.
He hugged her tight, rocking her from side to side. If he was trembling slightly, they both ignored it as he kissed her deeply.
“I love you so much, North. Don’t ever do this to me again. I can’t take it. You hear me?” She shook him.
“I love you too, Angel. And I’m sorry. So sorry. Do you forgive me for lying to you?”
“I don’t care about any of that. I just want you. I just want us.” The three of them joined into a hug and then she drew back to shake him again. “That doesn’t mean that I’m happy. How dare you get kidnapped!”
“Easy, Angie,” Jared said. “I don’t think he’s up for much of a scolding just yet.”
“Oh, is that all I’m getting?” North asked. “A scolding?”
“Hell, no, boy. You’ll be lucky if you can sit for a year,” Jared snarled. “And that’s just the punishment from me. Lying to me, putting yourself in danger, getting kidnapped. You’re in big trouble.”
To her shock, a small smile crossed North’s mouth.
“You’re . . . you’re smiling,” she whispered.
The smile disappeared but there was still a lightness to him. “I’m free. For the first time in my life, I’m free.”
“Uh, no you’re not,” she said. “You have the two of us, remember?”
“But that is being free. Because I’m free to choose,” North told her. “And I choose you, Angel.”
“I choose you too, although you need a new nickname for me.”
He gave her a questioning look.
“I’ll explain later.”
He turned to Jared. “And I choose you. I’ve always chosen you.”
“I choose you too,” Jared told him. “And I love you. That doesn’t mean that you’re going to sit comfortably for a long, long time.”
65
“Idon’t want you to leave,” Keira told her as they made their way over to where the guys were standing.
“I know. I’m going to miss you so much.” Angie came to a stop so she could hug Keira. “And I’ll be back for the birth of the baby. All right? We can talk as much as we like.”
Keira sniffled and nodded.
“You all right, Little Thief?” Zander asked, coming over to her.
“Yeah, I’m just going to miss Angie.”
Jared and North walked over to her.
“Want me to kidnap her?” Zander asked. “I will if you want.”
Suddenly all of his team was surrounding them.
“Like fuck you will,” Jared snarled as North moved over to wrap his arm around her. Surprise filled her when he touched her so easily.
But they’d all changed over the last few weeks.
“Who is gonna stop me?” Zander challenged. “You? There’s only two of you. You’re outnumbered.”
“Zander, stop teasing,” Keira said, leaning into him. “He’s such a joker.”
Um. Right. Sure.
“Angie has to go with them. She loves them.” Keira smiled at the three of them.
“Don’t know why,” Zander muttered.
“Wait! Wait! You nearly forgot your Kill the Fuckers bag!” Honey yelled as she ran up with a large duffel bag over her shoulder.
She dumped it on the ground in front of Keira.
“Easy!” Ammo said. “There’s a fucking grenade in there.”
“What?” North asked.
“This is the bag that means we have to drive home rather than fly?” Jared asked.
North crouched and opened it, searching through it. “There’s a flame thrower in here.”
“Yep,” Honey said proudly. “I put it all together myself for Angie when she moved out. Only she left it behind when she moved.”
“I was kidnapped,” Angie pointed out.
“How did I not find this at the house?” North muttered.
“It was hidden in a secret compartment in the safe room,” Angie explained.
Honey shook her head. “That’s where you went wrong. You should have slept with the flame thrower in your bed.”
“Yes,” Angie said weakly. “That’s where I went wrong.”
“Here’s your vehicle,” Zander said as Eli drove up in a battered van.
“That is what you are lending us to drive home in?” Jared gaped at the vehicle while she tried not to grin.
Jared had probably never stepped foot in a vehicle like this in his life.
“Yes, it works fine.”
Jared scowled and she quickly said her goodbyes before things could escalate.
Zander and Jared had been getting on relatively well. But who knew when that would blow up.
And she wanted to get home. They still had to talk to North about everything he’d kept from them.
Her mind was still reeling. He’d explained things briefly but she knew there was a lot he hadn’t said.
Jared had gotten in contact with Alejandro who had confirmed that there was a wannabe-Deity out there who was trying to recreate The Children of the Divine. Some of Alejandro’s men had come to pick up Richard.
Zander had managed to get the librarian fired and publicly humiliated. None of them liked to harm women but she figured that was a fitting punishment since her job seemed to be her life.