Magically Bonded_An Urban Fantasy Novel by Rachel Medhurst

Author:Rachel Medhurst [Medhurst, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“Sensitive little girl?” Gerard scoffed as we jumped into a cab.

It was the night after the wolf incident, and we were on our way home from work. Justina had managed to pull some interesting contacts from the address book I had found. We were getting closer and closer to the big dog.

Laughing, I punched his arm as the door shut behind him. “Yeah, life has a habit of kicking that sensitivity out of you.”

“Nah…” Gerard dug out his phone as it started to ring. “…there’s still some sensitivity in there somewhere. I see it sometimes.”

I was about to reply when my phone also burst into the stripper film theme tune. Justina.

“Looks like we have a job,” Gerard said as he answered Kurt’s call.

Swiping the green button, I greeted Justina. “What do you need?”

“Just had a phone call from your friend, Maxwell. He’s uncovered a secret meeting happening tonight at a club in the East End. I’ll text you the details and meet you there in an hour.”

She hung up before I could reply. It was technically clocking off time, but we were never really free from our job. We had too much shit to uncover.

Gerard leant over and changed the address with the taxi driver. There was no point in rushing. We had an hour to get across town.

“Maxwell Maddocks. Seems he’s finally on our side.” Gerard lounged back in his seat.

My gaze roamed over his bare arms, the black and grey tattoos once again reminding me of his dark past.

“Seems that way,” I muttered, leaning forward when I spotted something out of the ordinary.

Grabbing his strong forearm, I bent down for a closer look.

“Woah, Devon, I didn’t think we were going there.”

I bit my tongue as I glared up at him. Okay, so my head might have almost been in his lap, but his mind had taken it somewhere I had not been going. Although, now I was down here…

“What’s this?”

I pointed at the small tattoo, tucked between the numbers. It was a distorted love heart with a crack down the middle. In fact, if I studied the tiny gaps between the bigger tattoos, there were several smaller ones. An infinity tattoo. A candle. Even two hands with fingers that were intertwined.

Gerard tried to tug his arm away, but I held firm. I wasn’t going to let him get away with not telling me about these hidden tattoos. Everything on his body had meaning to him, he had made that clear.

“What are these?” I asked more gently as my finger traced the infinity pattern.

His breath sucked in as I glanced up at him through the hair that had fallen over my face. His eyes were wide, staring at me as if I’d asked him the most personal question in the world. There was no Mac-anything in him right now, he was just purely Gerard. Open, vulnerable.

“Has no one ever noticed them before?”

He shook his head, his Adam’s apple bobbing in his throat as he swallowed. My tongue flicked out to wet my dry lips.

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