Page 20 of Dangerous Mission

“I said I don’t even know where your fucking sister is.”

“What do you mean?”

I close my eyes and pray for the cell towerto be blown over.

“I mean, your sister is back stateside. She’s the last person in the world I’m going to see. You’re not fucking dying. You’ve got an inner ear infection. They’re a bitch. It happens when you dive. You know this.”

Griff starts yelling. Then someone yells at him to keep his voice down.

Growling, he returns to the call. “Scout, my sister is with you.”

I might be out of my head from exhaustion, but I am one hundred percent certain no one is with me. “Not me.”

“Scout, Aria’s my goddamned sister.”

I almost drop the phone when my hand spasms. “Wait a goddamn minute. She’s the sister you used to talk about?”

This woman is Griffon Kane’s baby sister—the one he was as protective as a badger over.

“Yeah, asshole.”

I stare at the windshield. “Oh my god, now I get it. You’re afraid I’m going to try to fuck your sister.”

“About time your brain came back online.”

“She’s barely of age.”

“She’s twenty one, Scout. But the point is, I don’t want you so much as breathing in her direction.”

Too damned late.

“Look. I’m not sure why this couldn’t wait until tomorrow. I’m dog fucking tired. You and your sister are on the way to the hospital, and I’m going back to sleep.”

“She’s not with me. They made her get out of the ambulance. Tell me she’s with you. Tell me she’s not somewhere alone.” His voice gets really loud. “Scared and ALONE!”

The fog in my head vanishes in a second. “No. Not with me. I hope she’s with Justice and Brundage.”

Two minutes later my call to Justice has failed and I’mdriving like a maniac in a destroyed truck on a road that’s covered in water.

Griff wouldn’t stop yelling, so I hung up.

I hadn’t gone far when I collapsed, so I’m less than six minutes out from the airport at this speed.

Come on!

Fuck.

I don’t even let myself think about the fact that Aria is Griff’s sister.

Not his girlfriend.

Okay, I do think about it. But I shouldn’t.Ever.

She’s…

Griff’s sister.

Ten years younger than me.