Snitches Get Stitches by Lani Lynn Vale

Author:Lani Lynn Vale [Vale, Lani Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Sometimes I think, screw it. I’ll just be a stripper.

Then I remember that my ass is bony and I have stretch marks galore.

-Text from Theo to Liner

Theo

I waited until he was in the shadows with me before throwing my arms around him and burying my face into his chest.

“Thank you,” I said softly to the man that had just given my world to me.

Liner’s arms went around me, and he pulled me close. “Thank you for what? Doing the right thing?”

I turned and pressed my lips to his neck, causing him to shiver.

That had crossed a line, but I couldn’t find it in myself to stop.

Linnie was now officially in my room, sleeping without a care in the world.

The alarm was set, and Monster was at the foot of her bed, refusing to leave.

Monster and Linnie had hit it off well. Linnie had never had a dog before and Monster had never really been around any kids. Seeing the two together you’d never really think that. They looked like they’d been together forever.

I leaned my head back until I could see Liner’s face.

“Did my brother look all right?” I asked, trying to tone down the riot of emotions that were rolling through me at an alarming rate.

I wanted him.

Again.

I wanted him badly, too.

“He was okay,” Liner admitted, letting go of one of my hips so that he could tuck a piece of my hair behind my head.

The door down the hall opened, and both of us looked over our shoulders at the woman that hurried toward the kitchen. She didn’t see us in the shadows, but if she had, she would’ve had some questions. Not that she would’ve asked us those questions.

“I like her,” I admitted softly. “The fact that she cared about Linnie and Linnie only, definitely showed today.”

Liner sighed and tugged lightly on my hand, pulling me into his room.

He didn’t shut the door all the way due to Linnie being down the hall, but he did close it the majority of the way so that we wouldn’t be overheard.

“Castiel’s a good man,” Liner admitted. “But he’s a cop, first and foremost. It’s hard for him to see past the ‘evidence’ so to speak.”

“He looked me up?” she guessed.

I nodded. “I’m sure he did that the moment that he could do it without alerting people that you were alive.”

I sighed. “I don’t like that people don’t like me.”

Liner pulled me into his chest as he said, “What other people think about you is irrelevant. What matters most is what I think about you.” He paused. “And soon, even that won’t matter since you’re going to be gone, starting a new life where none of us—of this—matters anymore.”

I looked around the room at where his wide sweep of his arm indicated and felt my heart clench.

I didn’t want to leave him.

But he was right.

Tomorrow, it was time to think about the big picture—about how my family could very well make Linnie’s life a living hell just like they did mine.

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