Page 24 of Wreck My Mind

Thea flinched, jerking back as Nik squeezed her shoulder. The spooked look in her eyes made me suspect she’d had some sort of flashback. Probably from the kidnapping.

“You okay?” Nik asked again.

“Sorry, I’m fine,” she assured. “You just startled me.”

“Let me see your eyes.” Nik tilted her chin to look into her pupils. As a corpsman he could always be counted on for being fucking annoying about the medical shit. I usually humored him, because he’d also saved my ass on more than one occasion.

Thea wriggled away. “Just have a headache,” she said, but her voice lacked conviction.

Nik flexed his jaw. “I knew it was too soon for you to travel.”

Fearing he’d start carrying her everywhere on the island, just as he’d carried her aboard the aircraft in Colorado, I grunted. “Here, take one of these.” I lobbed my prescription bottle across the cabin. Nik caught the pills in one hand and the water bottle that immediately followed in the other. “It’ll help her with the migraine from the concussion.”

Nik eyed me. “You having trouble with migraines, Coop?”

“Nothing I can’t handle,” I said before he got the idea to jam a penlight in my eye. I grabbed up a large tactical duffle packed with weapons and explosive ordinance and slung it over my shoulder. “Time to make things go boom, Steel.”

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