Beyond Forever by Rocha Kit

Author:Rocha, Kit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kit Rocha
Published: 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Inked In

Lex hadn’t come home yet.

Dallas took a drag of his cigarette and watched the tip flare in the darkness. Most of it had already burned away to ash, and his excuse for lingering outside was fading. His current girlfriend was naked in his bed, waiting for him to come in and work out the frustrations of the day with her in the filthiest ways he could imagine.

He shook another cigarette free of his pocket and used his current one to light it.

Something clanged and scraped in the alley near the side entrance of the warehouse. Dallas dropped the cigarettes to the pavement and reached for his gun as he edged around the building—

—and bit off a curse when he swung around and found himself aiming right at Lex’s face.

She ducked the barrel. “What the fuck?”

Dallas holstered his gun. “Jesus Christ, woman, are you stupid?”

“You’re the one who almost shot me,” she snapped. “I’m just heading up to my room.” She’d already disengaged the lock, but the door was solid, heavy steel, and she was trying to slide it open with one hand.

He stepped closer. She was dressed all in black—her stealing clothes—and almost melted into the shadows of the alley. But he could see the tightness in her eyes when he drew near, not to mention the pallor of her features. “What happened?”

A muscle in her jaw ticked. “Got jumped.”

“What?” He wrapped his hand above hers on the metal door and hauled it open in a surge of temper. Light spilled out of the hallway, illuminating the way her shirt clung wetly to her skin—and the ragged slice across the front.

“It’s barely a scratch.” She tried to brush past him, but stumbled and fell against the door frame.

Panic surged as he urged her inside and slammed the door shut. Ignoring her protests, he swung her up into his arms and headed for their makeshift first aid room. “You are ridiculous, you know that? I thought you were supposed to be smarter than all the idiot men who pretend their guts aren’t about to fall out.”

“My guts are fine.” She squeezed her eyes shut. “I don’t like blood. Especially mine.”

The only thing more terrifying than a bleeding Lex was Lex confessing a weakness. Dallas hurried his steps and nearly kicked the door off its hinges when he reached the oversized closet where they stashed the medical equipment.

He set Lex carefully on the table and hit the lights. “Take that shirt off,” he said gruffly. “I don’t like your blood a whole lot when it’s on the outside either, so let’s fix that shit.”

“You’re so cranky.” She stripped the shirt over her head, smudging blood on her cheek in the process. “You’re not the one who just lost three weeks’ worth of work to a punk-ass kid with a tiny little knife and shaky hands.”

No, but he was the one who had to track the guy down and kill him now. Publicly, if he could manage it. Bloodily. Slowly. So horribly

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