Page 79 of My Vigilante Valentine

Help me. I’ve swooned, and I can’t get up.

Yeah, I could’ve stayed like that forever, wrapped in his arms with the city waking up around us.

But of course, that was when my phone decided to ring.

Jax pulled back with a groan. “Your cousin has the worst timing.”

I blinked. “How did you know it was?—”

He tapped his temple with a smirk. “Enhanced cognition.”

What?Like mindreading?

I scowled.

That wasnottrue. Was it?

Pulling out my phone, I gasped when I saw he was right.

He snickered, shaking his head. “I was kidding. Just a lucky guess.”

“Now, who’s a menace?” I muttered, answering the phone. “This better be good, Chris.”

“It is.” His voice crackled with excitement as I put the call on speaker so Jax could hear. “I found something, thanks to a huge rabbit hole. And thanks to that dumpster phone. And it’s somethingbig.”

I straightened. “What kind of something big?”

“The kind that’s going to help us catch him.” The sound of rapid typing clacked in the background. “Can you come over? Both of you?”

I glanced at Jax, who nodded.

“Yeah,” I said to Chris, “we’ll be there soon.”

“Great. Oh, and Luna?”

“Yeah?”

“Tell your fake lover boy to use the door. I heard he has a thing for rooftops and fire escapes.”

I laughed as Jax rolled his eyes. “We’ll use the door.”

After hanging up, I turned back to Jax. “Wait, does Chris have enhanced cognition? How did he know we were up here?”

I scanned the rooftops around us until Jax let out a brief laugh. “That’s not exactly a secret, Luna. Do you even watch the news?”

He had me there. There were plenty of grainy videos of a mysterious rooftop vigilante saved to my YouTube profile, after all.

“I must be getting paranoid.” I shrugged with exaggerated ease. “On that note, ready to go catch a killer?”

His expression turned serious, but there was a warmth in his eyes that I was finally starting to accept could become a long-term thing. “With you? Always.”

And as he scooped me up again to carry me back downstairs, I couldn’t help but think that maybe this was what it felt like when everything finally fell into place.

Even if “everything” included a broody vigilante boyfriend, a serial killer on the loose, and a best friend/cousin who had the worst timing in the world.

But hey, there were also cookies.

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