Page 149 of Duty and Desire
The back door opened even before Vance and Ren took off toward it.
I heard heavy, fast steps then I was in strong arms and after that I was sitting in a wide lap, burrowing into a big body, trembling from head to toe.
“Victim’s Assistance?” I heard Hank ask quietly.
“Give her a minute,” Mo replied in the same tone, holding me close but pulling me closer. Then in my ear, “What do you feel?”
Terrified.
Plastic sheets.
His arms tightened further. “What do you feel, sweetheart?”
“Y-you.”
“Me,” he agreed. “Where am I?”
“R-right here.”
“Right here. With you. Are you safe?”
I forced myself to nod, but the movement felt foreign, like I’d never done it before.
And I couldn’t stop shaking.
Man, it was so cold.
“Get her sister here,” Mo ordered.
“On it,” Eddie said.
“And her mom,” Mo went on.
“Got that,” Tex replied.
“I’m okay. I’ll b-be okay. Don’t worry them,” I said to Mo’s chest.
“Lottie?”
“Y-yeah?”
“Shut up.”
“’Kay.”
Still trembling (okay, more like shaking), I pushed closer to Mo.
And he held on.
CHAPTER 11
I HIT THE MOTHER LODE
Mo
“Fuck, Mo. I’m so sorry. I didn’t know.”
Lawson hit him with that the second his foot hit the ground floor after he left Lottie in bed with her mother and sister.
