Page 119 of Totally Wrecked
I’m grateful the guys are on the same wavelength as me.
Key is hopping up and down on one leg. “Can we hurry?”
Killian grins and kneels down, “I’ll give you a piggyback.”
Key clambers on eagerly. Yikes, I hope she doesn’t pee on his back.
We wash ourselves at the pool and Killian keeps up a stream of light-hearted conversation. I don’t know if it’s for Keyara’s benefit or my own, but I’m grateful. As Key plays under the little waterfall, I pull Killian closer and wrap my arms around him.
“How are you holding up?” he murmurs. As he nuzzles into my neck, I feel my muscles relax.
“DAISY! COME LOOK AT THIS FLOWER!”
“Gotta go,” I sigh. Giving him one last kiss, I wade across the water and look at the flowers Keyara has found. She’s a little blue around the lips and shivering.
“Time to get out, Key. Let’s go get some banana mash.”
By the time we return to camp, Rex, Leander, and Gray are also back. Rex shakes his head when he sees us. They haven’t found Harvey.
As we sit eating, we quietly talk over our options, there are only two; just let him run, or hunt him down and recapture him.
“I like just letting him go,” I tell them, “that way we don’t have the problem of punishing him. We can’t just kill someone because we don’t know what else to do with them.”
A series of four loud growls meets my remarks.
“Him being out there, and us not having a bead on him, is not good,” Rex says. “The very least we need to do is track him. But I’ve been thinking, I think we capture him then send him off to the other island, and he can exist over there on his own.”
Huh, that is actually a really good solution.
“We’ll have to leave him in a swimmable state,” Leander says, looking disappointed.
“He doesn’t need teeth to swim,” Gray points out.
That makes Leander look a lot perkier.
I must have made a noise because they all turn to look at me. “I’m OK. I think I want to leave all the decisions in your hands. My brain is too mucked up. I’m not good at seeing myself worth fighting over.”
Now the growls erupt.
“The fuck! Baby!”
“I’d die for you, Daisy, fight to the death.”
“You are worth the fecking world.”
“I fight for what’s mine.”
That last comment was Rex. Everyone stops to look at him. “What? She’s my family. She was from the minute she saved Leander and Key.”
I find myself blushing as Rex looks at me. “We’re family aren’t we Daisy?”
Of course we are, but I can’t help wishing we were more than just family-friends. I glance at the others and they are all smiles. I look back at Rex.
“Of course we’re family, Rex.”
Rex gives me a wink. “Good. Now I’m going to find that cunt and excommunicate the fucker. Who’s coming hunting?” he says, standing up and looking every inch a man who was about to kick some serious ass.
And even though all this serious stuff is going down, and the guys are talking about terrible things, my stupid heart flutters like a butterfly.
