Page 129 of Kiss of Deceit
“We can’t,” he breathed in my ear. “You’re minutes away from getting hyperthermia and I’m seeing double. We have no weapons, Dani. We’ll get them. Just not tonight.”
My chest heaved as I snuggled closer to him. He was right, no matter how badly I wanted to end this right now. If I did something stupid, it could get us both killed.
We stayed silent, the passing minutes feeling like forever. My entire body was shaking uncontrollably, and I was grateful the wind wasn’t hitting us anymore.
“We wait here as long as we can. Can you handle the cold?” he asked quietly.
I nodded. I’d survive the cold now that I had him to stay warm with. Not that we had a choice. We had to stay put until we were sure the killers were gone.
He kissed my hair, his heart beating against my back. I closed my eyes, listening to the noises around us. The masked faces took over my thoughts, and anger scorched my veins. Tonight was the last time I’d run.
When I saw those masks again, they’d be bleeding red.
CHAPTER FIFTY
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“Stay still,”Nolan gritted out, pulling the needle from my head. “I can’t stitch you up if you keep moving.”
“I told you to help Dani first,” I growled. “I’m fine?—”
“Let the doctor work,” Harry said gruffly.
“Dani is fine,” Nolan assured me, starting to stitch me up again. “You saw it yourself. She’s warming up. She doesn’t have any bad injuries. The cuts on her legs only needed to be bandaged, not stitched.Youare bleeding from your forehead. How’s the pain?”
“Fine.” I was sure he didn’t believe me, but I really didn’t give a shit. My head was fucking throbbing from the hit I’d taken. At least my mind was finally clear.
“Do you know what you were hit with?” Nolan asked, concentrating on the stitches.
“Something fucking hard,” I muttered. “Are you almost done? I want to see Dani.”
“She’s still debriefing with Susan.” Harry scrubbed his beard. “You didn’t see their faces?”
“I didn’t see them at all. I was cooking and got knocked out the second I turned around.”
He frowned. “You didn’t hear them come in the house?”
I couldn’t exactly tell him how I was in a basement gym that no one knew existed except Dani. I’d already cursed myself a thousand times for being down there. But the doors were locked, and from what we’d learned from the previous victims, all of them had been taken and killed when they were out of their homes.
“I had music on,” I answered him, my lie flowing smoothly.
“Did you see the note?”
Nolan swore at me when I jerked my head. “What note?”
“Susan has it. I’ll have her bring it?—”
“What did it say?”
Nolan sighed. “I’m almost done. Stay still.”
Commotion from outside the room stole our attention, and when I heard Dani’s voice, I nearly jumped off the table.
“One more damn minute. I’ll sedate you if you don’t hold still,” Nolan threatened. “You need treatment, and I still need to make sure you don’t have any internal injuries.”
I leveled him with a glare. “Try it and see what happens.”
“You can’t do this,” Dani was saying. “I’m not leaving until they’re found.”
