Page 39 of Awakened Gifts
“Rest?” I ask, suspicion oozing from my tone.
His cheeky grin returns, and I roll my eyes. “I thought it’d be crude to name everything I want us to do. But rest is on the itinerary.”
His phone rings, just as it always does, but he ignores it. His eyes stay trained on mine, never even offering the flashing screen beside the bed a glance.
“You have to answer that. We can wait. Right now, there’s just too much to do.”
“There’s always too much,” he murmurs before returning his lips to mine.
The knock at the door tells me this small room isn’t soundproofed, and I squeal a little in surprise.
“I didn’t realize it wasn’t soundproof either,” Jase says, grinning like he has a dirty little secret.
Oh damn. We were so loud last night.
“Yeah,” he says to the unseen person, granting them entrance as he rolls over to his back and puts his arms behind his head.
Rex walks in with Mel, and he rolls his eyes as I tuck the sheet up closer to my chin.
“We need to go. The captain here is still a little pissed about Aria’s attack on him. And the people are getting antsy. This is a full blood colony, and once upon a time, all savage hybrids went loco on full bloods. They’re worried she’s fragile and will go savage again soon. And after yesterday’s demonstration… I think you get the point.”
Rex still goes loco on full bloods when he’s savage, so he shouldn’t be saying once upon a time as though it was the distant past such a thing happened. Uncle Grayson is just as bad.
But… Wait. What?
“When the hell did I attack the captain?”
Jase’s lips twitch as though he’s amused, but he quickly banishes the expression. “The captain was interrupting us with his incessant questions and false sense of superiority. You… well—”
I groan in interruption, “He’s the guy I attacked without seeing him. I remember that. Shit. Can we sneak out?”
I peek up from my lashes to see Rex eyeing me with caution, but I can feel Jase’s smile. He’s the only one in this room who’s not freaked out. Mel is actually standing a little bit behind Rex, her eyes not meeting mine.
Great, now I’ve scared the holy hell out of everyone.
“Not me,” Jase says close to my ear before sitting up and letting the sheet fall to his waist, revealing his perfect upper half.
When he winks at me, I quickly push aside all thoughts. My blocking skills are sucking today.
“You two get dressed. We’ll meet you downstairs,” Rex grumbles, snarling as though he’s close to puking.
He and Mel disappear out the door, and Jase sighs, “I keep forgetting who the commander is these days. I swear he gets bossier by the minute.”
I stifle a grin while getting up, and I nod. “Welcome to my world.”
He snickers softly while standing up, not bothering to cover up anything as he makes his way to me. His arms wrap around my bare waist, and he bends to kiss me.
“Let’s get married tomorrow.”
Those words almost force me to strangle on air because they’re so random.
“Tomorrow?” I ask incredulously. “We can’t get a wedding ready by tomorrow.”
His grin only grows. “Not a big flashy wedding, but we can get a wedding ready by tomorrow. All you need to do is get a dress. I can do everything else. I’m tired of wasting time, because tomorrows seem to be limited these days.”
He continues to try to smile, but it’s wavering as sincerity pours from his eyes. We keep kissing death too often and barely escaping its hold.
“Then let’s get married tomorrow,” I say in a breath, barely beating the tears that start falling freely from my eyes.