Page 82 of Rebel Heart

“Always.”

He shut the door, and I turned the car around, thanking Ice when he let us back out onto the road that ran through the woods. I put my foot down and cracked the windows open, letting the cold night air pour in.

She watched me quietly. “You know this feeling, don’t you?”

“Why do you think I like fighting?”

She leaned back on her seat, her hands tucked behind her head. “I get it. It feels fucking good.”

“Where do you want to go?”

“I don’t know. Anywhere? Nowhere? Take me somewhere I’ve never been.” Then she glanced at me. “But not too far away, because I don’t want to leave Kara alone too long.”

I screwed up my face. “Somewhere you’ve never been, but inside Saint View…”

“Yeah. That. Take me there.”

“You’ve lived here all your life. Where wouldn’t you have been?”

She shrugged. “There’s gotta be somewhere.”

An idea popped into my head. It was late enough no one else would be there. “Ever been on a construction site?”

Her head whipped over to me. “We’re going to your work? Can I drive one of those huge-ass digging machines?”

I raised an eyebrow. “Do you have any idea how?”

“Nope! But damn, that’s some big-dick energy sorta thing. And right now, that’s my vibe. I wanna drive it.”

I shook my head but then took a leaf out of Fang’s book.

And gave my girl whatever the hell she wanted.

28

REBEL

Iwasn’t going to think about the fact Caleb had very nearly captured my best friend.

Or that his voice still sent shards of fear spearing straight through my heart.

What I was going to concentrate on was I’d won.

For the first time since he’d sat at the end of a bar, flirting with me, and calling himself by a different name, I’d beaten Caleb at his own game.

If I’d done it once, I could do it again.

I could end him for good.

The power in that single idea had me so hot and wired and just bursting out of my own skin, I could barely stand it.

The truck cab felt too small. Claustrophobic. I had to have the windows down. The music loud.

When we parked at the darkened construction site, Kian turned off the truck, and we both got out. I gazed around. There wasn’t exactly a lot to see. The site was huge, with multiple buildings being constructed all at once and all in various stages of development. Some had frames up that made it clear what sort of structure was to be built there, but others hadn’t even had the slabs poured.

There were some lights around the perimeter fence, presumably to keep trespassers at bay, but Kian scoffed when I asked if there were security cameras. “None anyone checks. They’re just for show. Why? You worried about getting caught?” He linked his fingers through mine and tugged me toward the gate. It was padlocked, but there was a little key on his keyring that had it undone in seconds. He pulled the chain from the gate and motioned me through. “After you.”

I slipped past him and then spun in a circle beneath the moonlight. “So. Give me the tour.”

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