Page 60 of Untouchable

I blink my eyes a few times before I recognize the man in front of me. Eyes wide and surprise written across his face.

“Seth? What the fuck! What was all of that about?” I ask roughly as I turn to Seraphina and yank her inside, locking the door behind her.

“I thought someone was breaking in. Drew just went for a drive and you two are dead, at least that is what the Boss just told everyone.”

Seth’s face shifts from surprise to relief instantly. He takes a few steps forward and wraps me up in a tight hug, clapping the back of my shoulders before nodding and stepping back.

“Glad to see you don’t go down that easy.”

That is guy code for, “I am happy you aren’t dead. I love you man.”

I let out a rough chuckle and nod as I slide my arm around Seraphina’s waist, pulling her into my side. Seth’s eyebrows shoot up to his hairline and his jaw becomes practically unhinged.

“No fucking way.”

I cock an eyebrow at him, urging him to shut up but he just keeps blabbering.

“Finally? After years of brooding and being a little bitch, you finally manned up and got your girl?”

I roll my eyes but can’t help the smile that comes out as I kiss the side of Seraphina’s head. She has the softest blush that is beginning to creep up her face that is so damn adorable, it instantly has me thinking of other ways I can get her to blush like that, preferably naked ways.

“One question,” Seth says as he turns to Seraphina. “If you are willing to be with this ugly mug, you think you can find a friend of yours for me? I know they won’t be as sexy as you, but a guy can dream.”

“Watch it,” I snap aggressively as my grip on Seraphina becomes bone crushing.

I know the fucker is just trying to get a rise out of me, and he did, but I can’t even think about another man wanting her. I sat by for two fucking years and watched another man touch and kiss my girl, so needless to say, I am ready to be the biggest possessive alpha douche there ever was for the rest of our lives, and she better just get used to it.

Seth laughs good naturedly and since Seraphina practically grew up with him too, she laughs and shakes her head at him.

“Dude. I gotta call Drew. He has been pretty fucked up ever since we got the call.” His smile drops and his brows dip slightly. “We both have been.”

I nod as I squeeze Seraphina a little tighter to me. “Don’t tell anyone else though. Everyone has to believe that we are dead. Tell him to pick up some food, Seraphina didn’t get to eat breakfast this morning.”

Seth gives her a lopsided grin and nods as he pulls his phone out.

“Can you also take care of this for me?” I ask as I toss him the keys to the stolen car downstairs.

He catches them midair and nods. “The usual?”

I nod. “Full strip.”

Seth gives a mock salute that has me rolling my eyes as he makes his way out of the apartment.

“Full strip?” Seraphina asks with a confused look.

I cup the side of her face as I look down at her. “He is gonna take the car we drove here down to a scrap yard that we use. They will strip the car to pieces, grind off the vin and sell what is viable.”

“You have done this before?”

I nod and chuckle a bit. Dear god, she really has no clue about how anything works around her. I kind of love it. I love that she has been able to hold on to a sense of innocence, even in our world. Until now that is.

“I feel like you were right. I don’t know if I have been just blind or stupid. None of this ever felt real. It all felt like stories told from years ago, not things that happen every day, right in front of me,” she admits.

I shrug as I lead her towards my room. “That’s how your father wanted to keep it for you, how I still want to keep it for you.”

We keep walking through my bedroom and into my bathroom before she turns and sticks out that delicious pouty lip as she crosses her arms across her chest.

“Well, I don’t like it. I don’t want to feel so out of the loop, so unprepared for real life, ever again.”

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