Page 33 of Reignite

Devils and Angels

Iwas coming to resent the invention of the iPhone.

Gray had his attached to his face. Again.

With each step he took, pacing back and forth through the living room, his frustration levels rose. When something I wasn’t privy to pushed him over the edge, he’d inevitably smash his phone against the wall, the floor, the kitchen counter, the sidewalk, the highway.

I couldn’t do a damn thing about it. He was talking to Ilario. They were like teenage girls talking and texting, and texting and talking. They were as secretive too.

A week later and he was on phone number four-thousand now.

Every time I tried to bring up his newfound agitation and protectiveness he went silent as a sleeping bear. He was growly and surly and wouldn’t tell me anything except that he didn’t want me going anywhere without him.

With every new phone Gray needed, he withdrew from me more and more.

By Friday, we both needed a break.

Gray hung up and I saw that phone’s life flash before my eyes. “Grayson. If you break one more phone I’m going to find something else for you to do with your hands.”

He dropped the phone that had been about to die down on the countertop. I saw him glare at it.

“What is this something else you have in mind, my love?” His voice was low and tired.

He needed to protect me, but I wanted to wrap him in my arms and take care of him. We needed a break from the negativities and worries and go see something good that was happening in our lives. “I can think of a whole lot of things, but we need to get out of this condo. I’m going cabin crazy being locked up in here, as are you.”

“I can keep you safe here.”

I reached up and touched his cheek. He hadn’t shaved in days and the scruff drove me wild, especially between my thighs. It wasn’t like Gray to be unkempt, and while I might be going nuts being cooped up, he was beyond stressed.

“Let’s go to the club, see the progress Cade is making.”

“Yeah, okay. You will stick by my side, like I’ve got a collar and leash on you.”

“Or maybe like I’ve got one on you.”

I would get a collar on this man if it killed us both.

Gray and I took the short drive over to the building we were converting into the club. At the moment, it looked like a run-down warehouse surrounded by other more run-down warehouses. Cade was fixing all that for us.

When we arrived, Gray made me wait in the car while he checked to make sure the area was secure.

Sigh. He hadn’t done that since way back when my father had first hired him to be my bodyguard. We’d barely been friends back in those days. Not until he’d relaxed that tight ass of his.

We needed this thing with Foster to be done with.

I pulled out my phone and texted Ilario while I waited.

Me: Got any updates for me? Gray is on edge. I hate this.

Ilario: I have a lead. Do you know of someone named Serena?

Serena.The woman Gray’s Delta team had to rescue. The one Foster had gone rogue over and ended up getting shot because of.

Shot by Gray. Killed by Gray.

Gray pulled open my door, scaring the pee out of me. “Come on, let’s hustle you inside, and then I’m going to make some calls to get our security up to snuff at the club.”

I shoved my phone in my pocket with every intention to call Ilario later and find out what he’d learned about Serena.

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