“It’s subdermal,” I reply and brush my thumb under her eye, over the dark circles there. “And that way, ifanythingever happened, I could find you.”
“That feels a little unhinged, Rome.”
I simply lift an eyebrow. “It’ll make me feel more atease. I would have known exactly where you were when I was losing my shit earlier.”
“It’ll hurt.”
“Yes.” I kiss her nose. “I’ll try to make it as painless as possible for you, but it won’t be comfortable.”
“Will the doctor do it?”
I shake my head. “No. I will.”
She chews that pillow of a bottom lip. “I have one condition.”
I’m not used to being questioned. “What?”
“You have to have one, too. Of the two of us, you’re the one doing dangerous shit. If you can see where I am, I need to know where you are. If you won’t agree to that, then it’s a no-go for me.”
This woman. God, I love her.
If anyone else demanded something of me, I would have glared so hard that they would have run from me. But not this woman.
“I need to know where you are.”
For her …
“I’ll do it.”
Her eyes flash with surprise.
“You will?”
“I’ll do pretty much anything for you, firefly. Now, settle in and get some rest.”
Eloise lies down, her head on my chest, and snuggles in. “If you don’t want to be trapped under me while I sleep, you should move now.”
“I’m not letting you go, baby.”I love you too much to ever let you go.I kiss the top of her head and wrap my arms around her. “Just sleep.”
Forty-Three
LULU
“Idon’t think Luke told you to kill me,” Scarlett says, glaring at Mateo from the floor where she’s flat on her back, chest heaving from exertion.
“I didn’t kill you.” Mateo offers her a hand and pulls her to her feet. “You didn’t stop me from pushing you down.”
“This is only our third lesson,” she reminds him.
“And you’re going to learn this. If someone gets you flat on your back like that, they can do whatever they want to you. Kill you. Rape you.Anything.” Mateo narrows his eyes at me, and I know I’m up next, anddammit.
He’s brutal.
Mateo is also sexy as all get-out. With all that dark hair and dark eyes, the tattoos, the sheer size of him.
He’s massive.
And so strong. There’s no way I would ever win in a fight withthis man.
