hearing.
“You need to just either help me figure out an idea or keep out of my head. This is going to be scary enough as it is without you making it worse,” she complained. “If I get the tools to you, do you think you can undo the locks?”
YESSSS! His voice hissed back in annoyance.
Addie winced at the heat behind the single word. You don’t have to be so… forget it. Once you get out, follow the path I’ll include with the tools. I’ll leave my keycard with you as well. Once you reach the back parking lot, I’ll be waiting. You jump in the back, I drive us through the gate while you call your friends to pick you up. I drop you off and we both get our lives back. You go home and I don’t have to mop anymore floors. Problem solved.”
You forget about the cameras, Weston and Markham, and Dr. Rockman, Merrick replied in a surly tone.
“I told you, I’ll cause a distraction,” Addie pointed out as she packed her backpack for work later that night. “The bad guys won’t be there. It will be late. They’ll be home in bed… I hope.”
Addie winced again when she realized the last two words slipped past her before she could stop them. She was learning two things about this way of communication. First, she could close him out, but it wasn’t easy and not for very long. Second, if she didn’t want him to know what she was thinking, she better not think it in the first place.
That is why you must not do this, he growled.
“Has anyone ever told you, you sound like a broken record?” Addie muttered under her breath. “I’ve got this. I can do this. In and out, simple, fast, and run like hell. I used to do it all the time to my older brothers. I can do this.”
Silence greeted her words. Addie tentatively reached out trying to see if she could find the strange feeling that she had begun to recognize that he was there. Yep, he was still there. Silent, stubborn, aggravating, hard-headed…
Did I list stubborn? She wondered as she slung the backpack over her shoulder and headed for the door.
*.*.*
Yes, you mentioned it already, Merrick chuckled in response before he pulled away when she told him she needed to focus on driving again.
A sigh escaped Merrick as he laid tiredly back on the bed. He had woken with a thunderous headache. He didn’t know what Dr. Rockman had done to him, but his head felt as if it was about to explode.
It may have been the drug they used to sedate him. This was one of the first times where they had sedated him and returned him back to his cell before he had woken. A sense of unease and urgency was building inside him. This time had been different. He hated not knowing what was done to him while he was unconscious.
As much as he detested Addie’s plan, he had to admit it might be his only chance of escape. He relaxed, forcing himself to take a deep breath and calm his mind. His thoughts turned to Addie. She was an unusual female, much like those he had met back on Prime in the Council’s chambers.
A smile curved his lips and he closed his eyes as he remembered the human sisters, Tink, Hannah, and Tansy Bell. Each were different from the other, but strong in a surprising way. The more he learned about them, the more intrigued he had become. The fact that he had also found his own bond mate among this species both thrilled and concerned him.
He was thrilled to find Addie, there was no doubts about that. In his mind, he remembered her curvy figure. She wasn’t tiny, like J’kar’s mate Tink, or lean like Borj’s mate, Hannah.
No, Addie had a fuller figure with hips that made his hands itch to hold and breasts… a soft groan escaped him as he felt his body react to imagines playing through his mind.
Knock it off, Addie suddenly interrupted. You almost made me run into the back of the car in front of me! Add dirty mind to the list of descriptions for you.
I am sorry, Merrick replied sheepishly.
No, you’re not, Addie chuckled. I grew up with three older brothers.
“You need to just either help me figure out an idea or keep out of my head. This is going to be scary enough as it is without you making it worse,” she complained. “If I get the tools to you, do you think you can undo the locks?”
YESSSS! His voice hissed back in annoyance.
Addie winced at the heat behind the single word. You don’t have to be so… forget it. Once you get out, follow the path I’ll include with the tools. I’ll leave my keycard with you as well. Once you reach the back parking lot, I’ll be waiting. You jump in the back, I drive us through the gate while you call your friends to pick you up. I drop you off and we both get our lives back. You go home and I don’t have to mop anymore floors. Problem solved.”
You forget about the cameras, Weston and Markham, and Dr. Rockman, Merrick replied in a surly tone.
“I told you, I’ll cause a distraction,” Addie pointed out as she packed her backpack for work later that night. “The bad guys won’t be there. It will be late. They’ll be home in bed… I hope.”
Addie winced again when she realized the last two words slipped past her before she could stop them. She was learning two things about this way of communication. First, she could close him out, but it wasn’t easy and not for very long. Second, if she didn’t want him to know what she was thinking, she better not think it in the first place.
That is why you must not do this, he growled.
“Has anyone ever told you, you sound like a broken record?” Addie muttered under her breath. “I’ve got this. I can do this. In and out, simple, fast, and run like hell. I used to do it all the time to my older brothers. I can do this.”
Silence greeted her words. Addie tentatively reached out trying to see if she could find the strange feeling that she had begun to recognize that he was there. Yep, he was still there. Silent, stubborn, aggravating, hard-headed…
Did I list stubborn? She wondered as she slung the backpack over her shoulder and headed for the door.
*.*.*
Yes, you mentioned it already, Merrick chuckled in response before he pulled away when she told him she needed to focus on driving again.
A sigh escaped Merrick as he laid tiredly back on the bed. He had woken with a thunderous headache. He didn’t know what Dr. Rockman had done to him, but his head felt as if it was about to explode.
It may have been the drug they used to sedate him. This was one of the first times where they had sedated him and returned him back to his cell before he had woken. A sense of unease and urgency was building inside him. This time had been different. He hated not knowing what was done to him while he was unconscious.
As much as he detested Addie’s plan, he had to admit it might be his only chance of escape. He relaxed, forcing himself to take a deep breath and calm his mind. His thoughts turned to Addie. She was an unusual female, much like those he had met back on Prime in the Council’s chambers.
A smile curved his lips and he closed his eyes as he remembered the human sisters, Tink, Hannah, and Tansy Bell. Each were different from the other, but strong in a surprising way. The more he learned about them, the more intrigued he had become. The fact that he had also found his own bond mate among this species both thrilled and concerned him.
He was thrilled to find Addie, there was no doubts about that. In his mind, he remembered her curvy figure. She wasn’t tiny, like J’kar’s mate Tink, or lean like Borj’s mate, Hannah.
No, Addie had a fuller figure with hips that made his hands itch to hold and breasts… a soft groan escaped him as he felt his body react to imagines playing through his mind.
Knock it off, Addie suddenly interrupted. You almost made me run into the back of the car in front of me! Add dirty mind to the list of descriptions for you.
I am sorry, Merrick replied sheepishly.
No, you’re not, Addie chuckled. I grew up with three older brothers.
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