Girl Code by Jess Bryant

Author:Jess Bryant [Bryant, Jess]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Lemon Press
Published: 2020-01-23T16:00:00+00:00

5

Mickey had heard of safe houses before today. Not in real life of course, but on television and in the movies. She’d never in a million years have thought she would find herself at one, or that the supposed safe house wouldn’t be anything at all like the dingy motels they used on screen.

Instead, Dante had driven her to a house in the suburbs situated at the end of a mostly empty cul-de-sac. He’d pulled his car into the garage and explained to her that this was one of many properties the department owned. When she’d commented that it looked like it was in the middle of renovations he’d only nodded and said that was part of what made the house unremarkable. Cars and trucks coming and going were dismissed as contractors. Mickey had to admit it was a good ploy though she wondered if the city actually flipped these houses and sold them for more than they’d invested in the long term. That’s what she would have done, she reasoned.

Dante retreated to a bathroom to mend his wound and Mickey took the chance to get a little bit of space from him in the guise of looking around the home. The car ride over had been awkward. Neither of them had hardly spoken ten words the entire trip. Mickey had tried. She’d opened her mouth multiple times but always ended up shutting it again without saying a thing because she hadn’t known what to say when she could still feel the heat and warmth of Dante’s mouth against hers.

It had only been the adrenaline. That’s what she was trying to convince herself of at least. They’d been in a life and death situation. She’d thought she was going to die. She’d thought Dante was going to die. Kissing him had been nothing more than an outlet for the swell of emotions roiling inside of her. Only, those emotions had been roiling since long before bullets went flying and even now, she could still taste Dante on her lips, smell him on her clothes, and she still wanted to be back in his arms.

Mickey tried to shake the thoughts away as she headed through a kitchen that was draped in plastic sheeting. Useful for both construction and murder scenes, her brain supplied. She stopped in the doorway of the bathroom when she found Dante standing in front of the mirror with a needle and thread, wincing as he attempted to stitch himself up in the low lighting.

“What are you doing?” She snapped.

Dante jumped and cursed as his eyes met hers in the mirror, “Jesus, Mick. Don’t sneak up on a man doing surgery on himself.”

She snorted, “Stitches are hardly surgical.”

“Yeah well, in case you’ve forgotten, I’ve never been a big fan of needles.” He admitted, dropping his gaze back to his wound in the mirror and focusing as he attempted to put the needle to his skin again.

“I did forget.” Mickey whispered softly, earning another quick shift of his gaze up to meet hers, “Sorry.

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