no way I was getting anywhere near that water and I regretted telling him I couldn’t swim. Monarch looked murderous when he left and I wanted answers as to why he did. I was queen, right? Time to put my status to good use. “Any idea what he’s doing?”
“Yeah.”
“Care to share?”
“No.”
“Then point me in the direction of the office, my hair’s getting frizzy in here.”
“He doesn’t like that you’ve been living under a fucking rock. ” This came out as a grunt. Ransom was not handsome in any sense. I read a book once that used the term, rode hard and put away wet . This was Ransom. It had to suck to be that unattractive.
“Well that makes two of us, ” I say rolling my eyes.
“He’s risking everything by bringing you here, ” he says standing. A normal woman would find him frightening. I was not a normal woman, I was a queen and he was below me.
“His risk will be our reward. ” I counter.
“Men will die, ” he points out like I’m remedial.
“That’s called war , ” I say standing so we’re equals. “Death waits for all of us and sometimes if it’s done right, it’s even fun.”
Then he gives me an ear splitting smile I wish he hadn’t before saying, “He chose well.”
“Of course he did, ” I smile back ending the fight. “So, how long do we have to sit here and think of shit to talk about? I’m not good at small talk.”
“Yeah, Cinn, you are, ” he says quietly. “You just haven’t had a lot of practice at it. ” This hit close to home so I changed the subject.
“Do you know how to swim?”
“Of course I do, ” he says like I’m an idiot. “Who the fuck doesn’t know how to— ” raising an eyebrow he stops short and winces.
“It can’t be hard, ” I mumble staring at the water. I was terrified of down to my marrow but I wasn’t sharing that. Never show weakness and all that. “I excel at everything, swimming cannot be difficult. Worse case is you drown, right?”
“He wouldn’t let you.”
“I’m holding you to that, ” I say sitting back down. For the next fifteen minutes we said nothing while I stared at the water trying to talk myself out of this fear. When the filter kicked on and I noticed a swirl in the water I realized; Nope, still there.
Without a word, Ransom stands, pushes on his earpiece and silently exits the room. When Monarch entered I sensed a shift, a dangerous one.
This, of course, made me wet.
Monarch was too enraged to notice.
Pity.
She was terrified and refused to get back into the truck. I’d never seen her like this before, in truth, it scared me. And if I didn’t get her back soon, Savage was going to start killing people. But I couldn’t do that until I fixed what was wrong, which meant his killing spree would wait. “Tell me what’s wrong, Cinn, ” I urge her.
Shaking her head no, I watch her rubbing her hands in agitation. At Savage’s order, I had one of our newest recruits with us and clearly his patience was at an end and he’d forgotten the pecking order. “I told you bringing her would slow us down, ” he grunts.
“Just toss her in, we don’t have all day.”
“Cinn, last time. Tell me what’s wrong before I kill him in broad daylight.”
Whatever it was had her so embarrassed she couldn’t look me in the eye. Standing up on her toes, I lean and her breath in my ear was like heaven until she spoke. “I started my period. ” Oh fuck me… So she wasn’t terrified, she was embarrassed.
“What do you need for that? ” I grate out.
“I don’t know, it’s my first one. Can we go to the store, please?”
So I took her, bought her one of everything, which included a year’s worth of magazines and chocolate. I don’t know which of us was more mortified but when her bag broke and the contents spilled onto the concrete, I did know who’d be dying for laughing at her. “The princess started her period, fucking classic!”
The look she gave the recruit should have shut him up
“Yeah.”
“Care to share?”
“No.”
“Then point me in the direction of the office, my hair’s getting frizzy in here.”
“He doesn’t like that you’ve been living under a fucking rock. ” This came out as a grunt. Ransom was not handsome in any sense. I read a book once that used the term, rode hard and put away wet . This was Ransom. It had to suck to be that unattractive.
“Well that makes two of us, ” I say rolling my eyes.
“He’s risking everything by bringing you here, ” he says standing. A normal woman would find him frightening. I was not a normal woman, I was a queen and he was below me.
“His risk will be our reward. ” I counter.
“Men will die, ” he points out like I’m remedial.
“That’s called war , ” I say standing so we’re equals. “Death waits for all of us and sometimes if it’s done right, it’s even fun.”
Then he gives me an ear splitting smile I wish he hadn’t before saying, “He chose well.”
“Of course he did, ” I smile back ending the fight. “So, how long do we have to sit here and think of shit to talk about? I’m not good at small talk.”
“Yeah, Cinn, you are, ” he says quietly. “You just haven’t had a lot of practice at it. ” This hit close to home so I changed the subject.
“Do you know how to swim?”
“Of course I do, ” he says like I’m an idiot. “Who the fuck doesn’t know how to— ” raising an eyebrow he stops short and winces.
“It can’t be hard, ” I mumble staring at the water. I was terrified of down to my marrow but I wasn’t sharing that. Never show weakness and all that. “I excel at everything, swimming cannot be difficult. Worse case is you drown, right?”
“He wouldn’t let you.”
“I’m holding you to that, ” I say sitting back down. For the next fifteen minutes we said nothing while I stared at the water trying to talk myself out of this fear. When the filter kicked on and I noticed a swirl in the water I realized; Nope, still there.
Without a word, Ransom stands, pushes on his earpiece and silently exits the room. When Monarch entered I sensed a shift, a dangerous one.
This, of course, made me wet.
Monarch was too enraged to notice.
Pity.
She was terrified and refused to get back into the truck. I’d never seen her like this before, in truth, it scared me. And if I didn’t get her back soon, Savage was going to start killing people. But I couldn’t do that until I fixed what was wrong, which meant his killing spree would wait. “Tell me what’s wrong, Cinn, ” I urge her.
Shaking her head no, I watch her rubbing her hands in agitation. At Savage’s order, I had one of our newest recruits with us and clearly his patience was at an end and he’d forgotten the pecking order. “I told you bringing her would slow us down, ” he grunts.
“Just toss her in, we don’t have all day.”
“Cinn, last time. Tell me what’s wrong before I kill him in broad daylight.”
Whatever it was had her so embarrassed she couldn’t look me in the eye. Standing up on her toes, I lean and her breath in my ear was like heaven until she spoke. “I started my period. ” Oh fuck me… So she wasn’t terrified, she was embarrassed.
“What do you need for that? ” I grate out.
“I don’t know, it’s my first one. Can we go to the store, please?”
So I took her, bought her one of everything, which included a year’s worth of magazines and chocolate. I don’t know which of us was more mortified but when her bag broke and the contents spilled onto the concrete, I did know who’d be dying for laughing at her. “The princess started her period, fucking classic!”
The look she gave the recruit should have shut him up
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