“Where the fuck were you?”Reaper demands, removing his boot from the neck of the guy he’s choking.“My woman was in danger.”
My woman?
“Got here as quick as we could,” Jeff says and pulls Redhead to standing.“And you are...?”He narrows his eyes at Reaper.
“Pissed off,” Reaper says and takes hold of my hand.“I don’t want anyone in her face like that again, got that?”He points at Jeff and then the other security guy, Wayne.He snarls.“Ever.”
“Got it.”Jeff looks from Reaper to me.
“Anything ever happens here during you’re watch, you’ll answer to me.”Reaper bangs the diamond SoS patch on his cut.“Got it?”
“Got it.”Wayne sends his attention my way.“You know this guy, Doc?”
I nod.
“’Course she fucking knows me.Get your purse, honey,” Reaper says, his voice softening.“We’re out of here.”
“But I’m working and I...”
“Go,” Todd says to me in a low firm tone.“You’re covered and you look like shit.”
I touch my hair.“Thanks.”
“You look fucking beautiful,” Reaper says and strokes my cheek.“You’re never anything but beautiful.”
I swallow and my heart does a silly little flip.“Why are you here?”
“We gotta talk.”
“About what?”
“Us.”
“There’s anus?”A flicker of hope sparks in my chest.
“I can’t stop fucking thinking about you, wondering if I made the biggest mistake of my life leaving you like that.So yeah, there’s an us.”
“Biggest mistake.”I scowl up at him and tip my chin.“Yeah, I reckon you did.”
He chuckles as though my self-righteous expression is amusing.“So, let me make it up to you.”
“Perhaps you can’t.”
He drags me close, his thick arms wrapping around me and one big palm landing on my ass with a slap.
“Reaper!”Everyone is watching.This is so inappropriate at work.
“You know I can, big time,” he says.“Don’t you dare try and deny it.”
I look into his eyes, they’re a storm of emotions, and I have to acknowledge I’ll take whatever he wants to give me.“I’ll get my purse.”
Within minutes I’m climbing onto the back of his Harley.I see Todd looking out of the clinical room window.He spots that I’ve seen him and he gives me a thumbs-up, accompanied by a cheesy grin.No doubt he’ll be quizzing me nonstop next time I’m on duty.I don’t care.The black pit of despair that has been like a wet cloak over my shoulders for the last two days has lifted and in its place I feel light and hopeful.
Reaper revs the engine and grips the handlebars.“Where’s the nearest fucking bed so I can strip you naked and fuck your brains out?”
“You are so romantic.”
“Get used to it.”
