“The best-kept secret in all of Avis Management, it’s the Archangel with the clean-up crew,” Harper said, glancing away from him.
“We’re not going to tell Hana anything yet until Edwin is discovered at his home. “
“We should get to Logan, I should get to Logan.” Harper went to stand up.
“Angel, stop.” At his cool tone, she slid back onto the couch again. “I told you, he’s going to recover. Ares called Quinn. You know Quinn will call everyone.”
“Logan will hate it.”
“He’ll like some of it, the attention whore.”
Harper laughed and shook her head at him. “Bad, Mr. Montague. Can you take me to him, please?”
“They won’t let any more visitors in until the morning. Quinn swore he was his brother, so they let him in. The last update I got, was that he was trying to refuse the anesthesia for being sewed up. “
“That poor staff. I’m going to call Quinn.”
Xander nodded, took her hand and guided her from the couch. She grabbed her phone from the counter.
Her brow furrowed as she said, “Yes,” to Quinn and Xander paced around the kitchen. Damn, he felt so useless. He hated that he had to come to her door tonight and hurt her. His job was to protect her.
“Logan,” Harper said, her voice breathless.
Xander walked over to her. He rubbed small circles on her back, as she nodded against the phone.
“Okay. I’m good. Xander is here.”Xander’s hand went to the nape of her neck and he tried to massage the tension out of her tight muscles.
“Okay. Get some rest, Logan. I love you too.” Her eyes were wide as she passed her phone to him. “He wants to talk to you” Xander took the phone, his fingertips brushing hers. “Marrock?”
“What a night, man. What if you hadn’t shown up?”“But I did. You can thank your submissive for that.”“She’s yours too, Xander. You know that.” Logan’s voice sounded groggy.
“We’ve been over this,” Xander gritted out the words as he took his hand away from touching Harper.
“Yeah, and you’re so stubborn. You know she needs you. What are you going to do, leave her tonight? Call someone else because you’re a scaredy-cat? Take care of our girl tonight.”
Xander closed his eyes. “Are you giving me orders?”
“Xan…Xander, her submission belongs to both of us. I’m just telling you.” Logan’s voice slurred with grogginess.
Sometimes the giant was wiser than he seemed.
“For tonight. You get some rest to get back here.” His voice caught at the words. “They’re forcing me to. Come as soon as you can to spring me tomorrow?”“Deal,” Xander said. He closed the phone and meet that cool green gaze that had factored in so many of his dreams. “Angel.” He hugged her, bringing her to his chest. He closed his eyes, inhaling her light floral scent.
“Xander, can you...”
“What is it, Angel? Tell me.”“I want to feel your hands on me.” She reached up, putting her hands on either side of his face.
“It would just be another night, Angel. And it hurts us both.” “You belong with us, Xander.”
He closed his eyes barely touching her lips with his. If only that was true. There was nothing in this world he couldn’t buy for her. What she was asking was what he couldn’t pay for, because the cost to her would be too high.
“It’s worth the hurt, Xander.” Damn, her soft voice, had her unquenchable determination behind it and once again, he couldn’t deny her. Gently, he took her hands off his face, bringing her arms around him and then he kissed her.
Her mouth opened for him, and his tongue danced with hers, softly. She groaned under him and tipped her head to him.
“Angel, I don’t even know how I can stay away.”“Then don’t.” She grabbed his hand and pulled him to follow her.
And he let her take the lead, following her to the bedroom.
