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your mouth.”
She tied herself to the sound of Marc’s voice and did as he commanded. “Again. Nose, mouth.” She did it five more times before her panic attack released its tight grip. Marc helped her up and Colt handed her a glass filled halfway with amber-colored liquid. “Drink this. It’ll take the edge off.” He winked at her and she knew it was to make her shift focus. Marc slipped her phone from her fingers and handed it to Colt. Dios , would the surprises ever end?
“ Gracias .” She tipped the glass in salute, then downed half the contents in one swallow. She raised the glass again and finished off the last of the liquid and welcomed the burn with every swallow.
“Easy, darling.”
“Or you could give me another.” She cocked her head to the side and shook her now empty glass between them.
“Maybe or you could talk to me. Tell me what’s going on in that pretty mind of yours.”
Oh, now he wants to talk. “Do you think they’ll have any luck finding the van we saw by my house?”
“I’m not holding my breath on that.” Marc pulled her hand into his and turned it over to trace the lines in her palm. The small touch created a wonderful sensation of calm to settle over her and ground her to the here and now. “We’ll find whoever is behind this, Mia. We’ll protect you. Trust us.” He raised his eyes and immediately she felt the clash of his dark stormy gaze with her own. Conflicting emotions ran across his face before he settled on one—sincerity.
Mia frowned. There was that word again. Trust. It was so hard for her to hear. But on the flip side, she couldn’t argue with what she saw. Both men had put their lives on the line for her tonight and they had damn near taken a bullet for it in the process.
Tiny droplets of poison from her past dripped into her mind and tainted her resolve. Like a snake set to strike, her subconscious coiled, ready to flood her veins with the venom from her screwed up past.
An alcoholic mother who’d abandoned her for the bottle and a father who’d died when a girl needed her papa the most taught her people rarely stuck around. No matter how much they told you they would never leave.
With only her sister to care for her, between school and work to support them, Mia was left on her own more often than not. And bless her sister, she didn’t blame her. She did the best she could, but what could a seventeen-year-old do with a twelve-year-old kid sister? There were times when neither of them thought they’d make it past the day.
And tonight brought it all back front and center, the chaos she worked so hard to rid her life of and the unstable home she had shed years ago. She loved her sister and would do anything for her. She knew her sister would do the same for her, but this was her life now. Her job, her own little world and someone was trying to tear it all away from her. She’d be damned if she let anyone take the little piece of happiness she’d claimed for herself. But she couldn’t do that from a thousand miles away.
A heavy weight of uncertainty pressed on her shoulders. “Since the cops are already in on this, maybe we should let them handle all this mess? They can put me in some kind of protection services until this mess gets sorted out. ” As soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them.
Marc gave her a hard glare that glued her where she sat. “Don’t go there, Mia. You know as well as I do that the cops can do very little about situations like yours. And any protection you need is right here. We haven’t let them harm a hair on your head, and that’s not about to change.”
Colt cleared his throat from beside her. “Besides, they wouldn’t give you protection. Not until a real threat against your life was proven beyond a doubt. By then you’d be dead. And like Marc said, that’s not gonna happen. Right now, as far as the cops are concerned, all they have is a burned house that could have been set by any number
She tied herself to the sound of Marc’s voice and did as he commanded. “Again. Nose, mouth.” She did it five more times before her panic attack released its tight grip. Marc helped her up and Colt handed her a glass filled halfway with amber-colored liquid. “Drink this. It’ll take the edge off.” He winked at her and she knew it was to make her shift focus. Marc slipped her phone from her fingers and handed it to Colt. Dios , would the surprises ever end?
“ Gracias .” She tipped the glass in salute, then downed half the contents in one swallow. She raised the glass again and finished off the last of the liquid and welcomed the burn with every swallow.
“Easy, darling.”
“Or you could give me another.” She cocked her head to the side and shook her now empty glass between them.
“Maybe or you could talk to me. Tell me what’s going on in that pretty mind of yours.”
Oh, now he wants to talk. “Do you think they’ll have any luck finding the van we saw by my house?”
“I’m not holding my breath on that.” Marc pulled her hand into his and turned it over to trace the lines in her palm. The small touch created a wonderful sensation of calm to settle over her and ground her to the here and now. “We’ll find whoever is behind this, Mia. We’ll protect you. Trust us.” He raised his eyes and immediately she felt the clash of his dark stormy gaze with her own. Conflicting emotions ran across his face before he settled on one—sincerity.
Mia frowned. There was that word again. Trust. It was so hard for her to hear. But on the flip side, she couldn’t argue with what she saw. Both men had put their lives on the line for her tonight and they had damn near taken a bullet for it in the process.
Tiny droplets of poison from her past dripped into her mind and tainted her resolve. Like a snake set to strike, her subconscious coiled, ready to flood her veins with the venom from her screwed up past.
An alcoholic mother who’d abandoned her for the bottle and a father who’d died when a girl needed her papa the most taught her people rarely stuck around. No matter how much they told you they would never leave.
With only her sister to care for her, between school and work to support them, Mia was left on her own more often than not. And bless her sister, she didn’t blame her. She did the best she could, but what could a seventeen-year-old do with a twelve-year-old kid sister? There were times when neither of them thought they’d make it past the day.
And tonight brought it all back front and center, the chaos she worked so hard to rid her life of and the unstable home she had shed years ago. She loved her sister and would do anything for her. She knew her sister would do the same for her, but this was her life now. Her job, her own little world and someone was trying to tear it all away from her. She’d be damned if she let anyone take the little piece of happiness she’d claimed for herself. But she couldn’t do that from a thousand miles away.
A heavy weight of uncertainty pressed on her shoulders. “Since the cops are already in on this, maybe we should let them handle all this mess? They can put me in some kind of protection services until this mess gets sorted out. ” As soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them.
Marc gave her a hard glare that glued her where she sat. “Don’t go there, Mia. You know as well as I do that the cops can do very little about situations like yours. And any protection you need is right here. We haven’t let them harm a hair on your head, and that’s not about to change.”
Colt cleared his throat from beside her. “Besides, they wouldn’t give you protection. Not until a real threat against your life was proven beyond a doubt. By then you’d be dead. And like Marc said, that’s not gonna happen. Right now, as far as the cops are concerned, all they have is a burned house that could have been set by any number
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