The Monsters we Hide by Melinda Owens

Author:Melinda Owens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Anne Conley
Published: 2022-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

It had been two days since Rebel had spoken to him. Two days wouldn’t be that much, if they’d been out in the real world, working, playing, doing things besides sharing a small living space with each other. Meals had been silent, mornings were silent, evenings were silent.

It was so different from the times in the hospital, where she’d talked his damn ear off. He hated to say this, but he missed that. It hadn’t seemed comfortable for her; she’d clearly done it because she thought he needed to hear her speak, but it was so much more preferable to this silence.

He missed her rambling. Hell, he missed the husk of her voice. Po hated that she wasn’t speaking to him.

He knew she was mad at him, but he wouldn’t change his mind. There was no way he was going to serve Rebel up on a silver platter to doctor douchebag to let him do whatever twisted things he wanted to her. No matter what.

And apparently, they couldn’t discuss it like adults. That was on him. He knew it. What would he say? He wasn’t about to let Dr. Pedigrew take away the one woman left who mattered to him. Nope. That wasn’t going to work. All he could do was stand firm in what he’d already said to her. Because he was right. He couldn’t start a relationship with her. Not in the middle of all this. Not when he had no idea what he was doing. Not when her life was in danger.

Po was getting out of the shower when a multicolored neon monstrosity on his bed captured his attention. It was a nerf gun, one of six left here by Jameson, one of the SEPs guys, during a get-together they’d had here a year or so ago.

Po had put them up in the closet of the guest room for whenever.

There was a bag of extra ammunition next to the gun along with a note.

“Bring it. If I win, you listen to me without being an ass. If you win, I’ll be silent till this is over.”

Okay then. He would renegotiate when he won. He was over this silence bullshit.

Po slipped on a pair of pants and grabbed the gun, loading it up and stuffing the little foam bullets in his pockets. Then he went to find the girl and kick her ass.

Coming down the stairs, a snick, kerthunk met his ears at the same time a sting battered his chest. Rebel’s maniacal giggles floated across the living room, where she was hiding somewhere in the kitchen.

“Alright,” he growled before plastering himself against the wall and creeping toward the sounds of her giggles.

Inching around his sitting area, back to the wall, he spun low around the couch, his gun seeking her out. Her hair flipping over the kitchen island gave away her position. Po took aim and waited.

Nothing.

The came another snick, kerthunk and another sting on his chest as he saw her gun peeking out from around the giant computer monitor he had next to the kitchen.

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