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Snake has blood dripping down his face, likely from a head wound. He has burned flesh on his calves, and there seem to be lacerations on his chest. Remy is standing over him, her hands covered in blood and a pissed look on her face. I’m unsure that she’s even noticed that we’re here.

Turning to Flack, the older man is frozen in place, his face a mix of shock and sorrow. I get it, his baby girl was kidnapped. Innocent sweet Remy has been replaced with a valkyrie and that is making my dick pulse in my jeans.

Stepping closer, I gentle my voice so as not to startle her.

“Retta,”

Her head snaps toward me, a slight frown pulling her dark brows together. “How do you know that name?”

I can’t stop the sheepish grin on my face. “I’d like to say I figured it out, but it was Chewy,”

“Wait, what?” She drops the glass shard that she’s been using on Snake and steps away from him. Snake relaxes in relief, which is a pity for him because while Remy has been walking toward me, her dad has been stalking toward him.

As they pass each other, he reaches over and strokes her cheek, “I love you, baby. I’m sorry this happened to you.”

“It’s OK, Dad. I used everything you taught me. I’m not weak. I’m the daughter of the VP.” She smiles brightly at him and he kisses her on the head before she looks at me and steps closer.

“Um, can you explain to me how you know my Shadow Wrath name?”

I blow out a long breath. “Beretta_Penn is your avatar name. Your avatar is a large green troll, with piercings and long black hair. You’ve been playing since you were 13 years old. Your first day you joined a campaign with an elf, Saint_Margarita. You would spend all day at the library because you had stuff going on at home. I would spend all day online because my parents were breaking up. Girls picked on you at school. I slept with all the girls at school.” Her eyes grow wide and glossy and her perfect lips open on a shocked o. “I skipped prom to hang out with my older guy friends while you went to prom and some douche got too drunk to take your virginity like you wanted. You messaged me every day while I was deployed and put me back together when I got home. You’re my conscience, my hope, my other half, and I’m yours. I have your back for always.”

Tears freely roll down her cheeks as she whispers, “For always.”

Beaming up at me, she does something that I never thought she’d do. Stepping closer, she runs her hands up my chest, her touch sending little electric shocks of awareness through me. Sliding her hands behind my neck, she tugs me closer until my face is so close her beautiful sky-blue eyes are all I see. With a sweet exhale, her soft lips touch mine in the gentlest of kisses. Sliding my hands into her silky hair, I cup her face and deepen the kiss, swiping my tongue across her bottom lip asking for permission. She sighs and her tongue comes out to glide across mine.

We move and taste each other, the desperation of the last few hours leading us to grasp and grip at each other, at what we could have lost.

“Listen kids, I’m glad you’ve found each other, but mind if we get this fucker back to the compound?”

Remy tears her lips from mine, looks over my shoulder at her father and bursts into giggles.

“Fine, come on then. I wanna show Chewy what I did!” She claps her hands and beams like escaping a kidnapping and then torturing the fucker who did it is a completely normal thing to do.

“She’s been hanging out with your lot too long,” Flack grumbles as we watch her run to Snake, untie him, and push him off the bike onto the ground.

“Is that a bad thing?”

Flack turns to look me in the eye. “It’s bad because I fear I’m losing my little girl. But the woman I see before me now is someone she should have always been.”

He dials his phone and barks at Tav to bring the van around to collect Snake.

“You two go on. I’ll wait here for this piece of shit’s ride.”

I grin at Flack, excited that I finally get to feel my girl on the back of my bike. Waiting patiently for Remy, my brows pull into a frown.

“Um babe? We need to get out of here, and I need you on the back of my bike.”

“I want that too, but tonight, I’m going to be riding my new bike home.” She smiles widely at me as she throws her leg over and sits her pretty little ass on Snake’s bike. Well, Snake’s old bike, her new bike. Starting her up, she cackles as she slowly glides her way to the roller door.

“The DRMC created a monster,” Flack laughs as we watch the woman we love wait for the roller door to open before riding out.

“Come on, slowpoke!”

She revs her engine, and I run out to catch up.

Chapter Sixteen

Remy