“Is that a… Is that a…”
“Leech?” I nodded, concentrating on its body as I worked out the best way to remove it from his skin. “Yeah, um, they don’t like when you stand still. Especially on the rocks here.”
“You think you could’ve fucking told me that before I put my clothes here. Before youbroughtme out here.Mon Dieu.Get it off me.”
“I’m trying,” I said, trying my best not to laugh. This wasn’t funny, really. Except it kind of was.
“Just pull it off.” Theo reached up to do just that.
“No!” I barked. “If you squeeze it or pull it, it might…” I trailed off, deciding it was probably best I didn’t tell him what it could do as a result of his doing that.
“It might what?” Theo demanded, and I shook my head, glaring him straight in the eye.
“Just stand still, would you? I need to slide the knife under its head and get its hooks out of you.”
“Putain, je vais te tuer,”Theo said, and when I frowned, he said, “I’m going to fucking kill you.”
“Okay, but do it after.” I slowly slid the knife under the body and down to where the leech was attached. Theo looked away just as I reached its suckers and flicked the fat, plump body to the ground.
Theo shuddered at the sight of it and jerked away from me. “Are there any others on my back?”
“Nope,” I said, biting on my lip to keep from laughing. Then I ran my eyes down to his shorts, just to fuck with him. “Not that I cansee, anyway.”
All the color drained from Theo’s face as he pulled out the elastic waist of his shorts and gave his dick a thorough inspection.
“Want me to check your ass?”
“Fuck you, Winchester,” he bit out as he snatched the rest of his clothing and shook it vigorously. “Don’t think I’ll forget this.”
“I wouldn’t dream of it,” I said as I gave myself, and my clothes, a quick once-over. “Ready to check the rest of the perimeter?”
“If you think for one second I am going anywhere other than back to the house and away from anything that crawls, slithers, or bites, you’re out of your damn mind. And that, for the record includesyou. Slimy, underhanded bastard.”
“Aw, come on,” I said, and finally lost the battle not to laugh. “Don’t be like that. I mean, I did just save you.”
“Non,”Theo said, and marched forward. “You saved yourself because if I were still holding that knife, you would be gutted right now.”
“Liar. You like me too much to gut me.”
Theo narrowed his eyes, but instead of responding, he spun on his heel and marched off into the jungle, where he proceeded to curse me out in French all the way home.
31
THEO
SEVERAL FANTASIES OF just how I’d torture Shep after this hike from hell flooded my mind one after the other as I trekked back to the house. Tormenting him with leeches on his own damn body was high on the list, but that wasn’t enough.
First, he’d woken me up, and not with the orgasm I deserved, then he forced me out into the hottest place on the planet to, what, look at the wildlife? Having them violate my body was a step too far, and now Shep thought it was smart to follow after me chuckling the whole damn way?
If I didn’t enjoy his cock so much, I’d have a good mind to rip it off his body and beat him with it.
The only smart thing the man had done all day was give me the code to enter the safe house, and the eye scanner did the rest. I kicked off the muddy boots, leaving them on the patio to rot, and then hightailed it to the shower.
There better not be one more fucking leech on my body, or I was going to lose my mind.
After turning the spray all the way to hot, I ripped off my clothes—which I’d be burning later—and gave myself an inspection in the mirror. When I didn’t see any signs of those nasty little fuckers, I jumped into the shower, not caring at allthat it scalded my skin. If there were any leeches hiding, they were dead now.
I shuddered just thinking about them, and immediately grabbed the soap and began to scrub my body raw. If that had been Shep’s idea of a good time, he was never allowed to plan anything for us ever again.
