Page 20 of Nanny For Biker Wolf Daddy

“They ran. I wouldn’t ever shoot anyone in the back.”

“You witches with your honor codes. Matilda almost killed Conner before Beth would stand up to her, and let’s not even talk about your mother.”

“Yeah, let’s not.”

Rory’s deep rumbling laughter could be heard from the kitchen, so Savvy headed that way. Rosa and Rory gasped when they saw her bleeding face.

“Oh, my lord. What happened to you?” Rosa yelped.

“Some members of Rory’s fan club,” Savvy said.

She repeated their words.

“Damn it,” Rory said. “I was hoping that they would be smart enough to stay out of Angel’s Creek and Griffin territory.”

“They aren’t,” Savvy said as Rosa carefully washed her face off with a paper towel.

“They might cause an infection. I’m sure they aren’t the cleanest fellows around,” she said.

“I have some really great stuff I got from a healer upstairs,” Savvy said.

“I’m so sorry,” Rory said. “I hope this doesn’t mean that you’re going to leave us.”

“You have no need to apologize. This wasn’t your doing. And, of course, I’m not going to leave. There is no way that I’m going to let a few assholes scare me away, pardon my French. I’ve never let anyone scare me or intimidate me.”

Rory laughed and said, “I knew there was something I liked about you.”

Savvy was sure that she could see the relief in Rory’s eyes.

Colby came downstairs and asked, “What’s up?”

Rory saw the question in Savvy’s eyes. “Shifters can communicate telepathically even in human form. We can even hear non-shifter’s messages if we are close to them.”

She nodded.

“What in the hell happened to you?” Colby asked, shocked.

Rory filled him in and said, “Let’s go make sure that they’ve left.”

Savvy went upstairs and washed her face, wincing when the warm, soapy water stung the gashes. She fished some healing salve out of her bag and dabbed it on.

Several minutes later, there was a knock on her suite door.

“We saw the wolf tracks just inside the wood line. Colby will be keeping a close eye out when you guys go outside. Hopefully, the cowards won’t come around when the kids are out during the day.”

“I will be very vigilant, and I can promise that no one will hurt those kids. I have enough defense skills that I can protect them. I chose not to fight them when they scratched me because they ran.”

She just chose not to tell him that those defense skills were magical and that she could annihilate a large group of shifters quickly.

Savvy saw the doubt in Rory’s eyes, but he smiled and said, “I appreciate that.”

He reached out and touched her cheek briefly. Savvy had to fight the desire to lean into his touch. She suddenly felt an incredible need to have his arms wrapped around her and it had absolutely nothing to do with fear.

Rory stared into her eyes for a moment, frozen. Then, he snatched his hand away as though it had been burned, sucked in a huge breath of air, and said, “Well, I’ll let you get some sleep.”

She wondered if he had felt the same need, the same magnetic pull that she had.

What would he have said if I asked him to hold me?

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