Trusting Xavier by Casey Hagen

Author:Casey Hagen [Hagen, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2020-01-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

What have I done?

Yes, Laramie needed to learn to protect herself. So did Harmony. Those were the two points he planned to make, but then Lucas and Dylan had shown up unannounced at the worst possible time, leaving him unfocused. Then she’d revealed everything, and he’d completely forgotten what the whole meeting was supposed to be about.

So he hadn’t mentioned what they needed to teach Harmony.

He never once brought up the special trainer they’d found to work with the little girl on evasive techniques, because let’s face it, at four, the likelihood she could fight off an attacker was slim to none, but there were things they could teach her. Tricks that could buy her time or help her reach safety.

But worse, when Laramie looked at him, the look in her eyes resolute, a scheme he suspected brewing in that feisty mind of hers to make sure she was the one to go collect these witnesses whether they located Harland or not, he’d had the opportunity to convince her to play it safe.

He’d had the chance, a chance he never had with Sarah, to avoid looming disaster, but no…what had he done? He’d taken one look in those twin seas of blue and caved.

Ooofff!

He doubled over as the air whooshed out of his lungs with her gut shot…and said a quick thank you to the powers that be that she only caught him in the gut and not lower.

Laramie danced on the balls of her feet, boxing gloves dwarfing her hands. She should have looked ridiculous, but the glint in her eye and the way she held her shoulders back, tight and proud, she looked like a flyweight female boxer taunting her opponent.

“Wow, that one was your own fault. Get your head in this, Doc, or it might just be that pretty face of yours I aim for next.”

They’d been working out together for a couple days. Tomorrow the special trainer would arrive to work with Harmony. Not because she was going to get tangled in the fray, but because she lived in a world where she needed every tool, even in a four-year-old’s arsenal to be safe.

Today, that little girl’s mom was full of energy and hell-bent on kicking someone’s ass.

He grinned and took a step toward her. “Did you just call me pretty?”

“Well, you are. Makes me wonder just how much you did in the SEALs. Dylan has a couple visible scars. So does Lucas. I wasn’t even a SEAL, and I’ve got scars now, but you, Doc, you’ve got the Henry Cavill perfection thing going on. Makes me wonder if you were really a SEAL or if you were just a pretty face used to recruit others.”

“Laramie,” he growled, taking another step.

“What?” she said, a twinkle in her eye and a smirk on her sassy mouth.

“Shut it,” he said.

“Or what? You’ll take out your superhero uniform and vanquish me like a villain—” Her words died, and her squeal pierced the air when he picked her right up off her feet and hoisted her over his shoulder.

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