Page 21 of Secret Gifts
“I’ve got her. You need to collect Captain Morris. I’m sure it took his savage to do what he did,” Jase counters softly while clutching me to his chest.
He puts me down briefly when a guy steps up, offering Aunt Angelica the chance to quickly come check me over. His body blocks most of the view to me, and Aunt Angelica makes sure to cover me completely as I take the opportunity to pull out a spare pair of contacts. With the chaos surrounding us, no one notices me throwing in the new blues.
"I'm taking Ms. Banner with me. Get the others out of here," Jase mutters before passing out several phones a girl presents him with. "Wait until you're close to the border to turn them on."
Jase scoops me back up, and I throw my arms around his neck to help relieve him of bearing my full weight.
My eyes scour the hillside to find my uncle sliding down on his way to find the only thing that matters to him right now. His arms wrap around my aunt, and she lets him carry her away, her eyes offering me a glance over his shoulder as she peers around.
“I’ll come find you when I bring him down,” she whispers loud enough for only me to hear.
I feel the seat of a car pushing against my back as I wheeze in another breath. I feel the blood filling up in my lungs as Jase swishes around to the driver’s side.
“Damn it,” he growls when he grinds the gears wrong in his frenzied, panicked state.
I’m in too much pain to speak. I can’t even ask him how he knew we needed help. My eyes become too heavy to hold open, and his breaths echo in my ear as the only sound I can hear. He smells so good.
“Aria, stay with me, please, stay with me,” he urges while barreling through the wooded area like a professional driver.
How long did it take us to get back to the road?
“Aria, damn it, stay with me,” he pleads again, but I can’t think straight.
My mind is wandering down random streets with no real destination. I feel so weak, tired, almost as though I’ve spent the whole day swimming.
“Mmm. Sex and Candy,” I murmur before finally allowing my eyes to close, my mind blocking out the horrendously excruciating pain.
“Fuck!” he blares, and I feel the car finding a solid path as he kicks it in to move all the faster.
Death be kind... please.
C
hapter 5
Sex and Candy
“She’s still asleep right now. She heals very slowly,” Jase says in a near whisper.
“She does heal slowly, but she always heals. How bad were the rest?” I hear Rex ask, and now I realize Jase is speaking into a phone.
“Not good. We lost several. The Morris captains proved to be the saving grace duo.”
Rex laughs lightly.
“Yeah, my aunt and uncle are tough. I’m glad I saw the vision when I did, but I wish it had come to me earlier. I would have never forgiven myself if something had happened.”
“This shouldn’t have happened,” Jase growls into the phone.
The soft bed beneath me shifts as my aching body tries to rise. His eyes widen and flash over to me before he takes in a relieved breath.
“She’s awake. I’ll have her call you soon,” Jase says before hanging up.
I look around to see a white, decadent room full of lavish touches and a huge spacious area just outside this grand, master suite.
“Where the hell are we?” I grumble through my dry, cracked lips.
I touch them when I feel their soreness, and he hands me a pack of blood while joining me on the bed to inspect my yellowing bruises on the exposed parts of my body. That's when I realize I’m wearing a man’s shirt instead of my clothes.
