Kai mutters a curse so low it vibrates through the whole truck.
“If I had it my way, I wouldn't let you walk from your bedroom to the damn kitchen without someone watching your ass.”
Mikey shoots him a look, but doesn't argue.
I stare down at my hands. “I just want to feel normal,” I whisper.
Mikey squeezes my fingers. “You're not normal to us. You're everything.”
The words nearly undo me.
I look up at Kai and see his jaw flex, “They’re not touching you. Ever.”
Something twists in my chest, and I blink hard, staring out at the skyline. “ Why do you care so much? We barely know each other.”
Kai lets out a dark, humorless laugh. “Yeah. I noticed. Doesn’t change shit.”
Mikey turns my hand, intertwining our fingers together. “You don't get it yet, do you?”
“Get what?”
Kai glances at me through the mirror, his eyes burning into mine. “You’re ours.”
The words hit me like a punch to the gut, my breath stutters, and heat floods my neck.
I notice Mikey doesn't correct him; he just nods once. So slow and sure of himself. “Yeah. Ours.”
My pulse trips. “That’s… that’s not…”
Kai cuts me off. “Argue later. Not now.”
I open my mouth, ready to snap back, because how dare he say that to me, but then…
He reaches his hand back and rests it on my knee.
This is the first touch he’s given me since the alley, and it causes my whole body to go still.
“We’re taking you home,” he mutters. “Where you’re safe.”
The way he says home makes my heart twist painfully… Mine? Or theirs?
I don’t get a chance to ask, because suddenly we’re pulling into the underground garage of the Monroe penthouse tower.
The truck slows to a stop, and everything goes quiet.
Chapter 10
Mikey
Kai locks the door behind us with more force than necessary, and when he turns, I see he is one breath away from breaking it off the hinges.
Julia stood in the middle of our living room with her arms wrapped around herself and her eyes fixed on some spot on the hardwood floor. Her shoulders are shaking, but she isn’t crying.
“Princess,” I whisper, stepping towards her slowly. “Hey… look at me.”
She doesn't move. I can tell her mind is somewhere else entirely.
Kai moves first, circling around until he’s in front of her. He crouches down, trying to catch her gaze.
