Diamond (Rare Gems #2)(55)
No, it’s just a plain bullet, but if you bleed on my nice carpet I’m going to make you pay. She was so afraid for him, but when he laughed, she felt so much better. Are you all right?
“Yes, I am. Now that I know you’re safe. Just let’s get this bitch taken care of. I want to break in your new desk. She felt the warmth of his words and glanced at her broken door, knowing that at any moment security was going to come in.
I don’t think it’s going to be today. There is a mad woman on my floor and a wolf at her throat. I think it’ll be a while before either of us will be doing anything like that. I love you, Thad. As soon as he let Jan go, Diamond picked up the gun and pointed it at her as she stood up. “They’ll never believe you.”
“They won’t believe there’s a dog in the hospital? They will if I tell them. I may not be respected, but I do have some pull left.” Diamond shook her head. “You’re a f*cking cunt, do you know that?”
The first guard came through the door just as Jan started screaming. Thad had gone to the bathroom, so no one searched for the giant motherf*cking dog, as Jan kept screaming about. She was being cuffed just as Blair came into the room, and he moved to the bathroom and tossed in a small bag before coming to hold her. Thad came out and stood there staring at her, wearing a pair of scrubs as she held onto Blair. She’d never been so relieved or happy in all her life, and as she walked to him, he smiled at her. She hugged Thad to her just as the police arrived.
As Jan was being taken away, the police looked at her, she supposed for some sort of direction. Shrugging, Diamond never looked at anyone but the one cop she knew was a shifter. He winked at her just before he walked out of the room with Jan in cuffs. There would be no more talk of a giant dog running free in the hospital.
“You should know that I’m not at all happy about this.” Both she and Thad looked at Blair as he continued. “First of all, there are all sorts of things you could have done without shifting in a public place, and secondly, telling me to be calm several times when I knew you weren’t is not very nice. I need you both to pledge to me so that I can skip all this finding out after the fact what’s going on.”
“I told you what was going on.” Blair shook his head at her. “Okay, you contacted me first, but I still told you.”
“So you did, but would you have done it before either of you were killed? Doubtful. And my big contribution to this was to steal some clothes from the cart down the hall so your boyfriend there wouldn’t be naked when the police arrived.” Blair shook his head again. “Please pledge to me. I need to know when you might need me.”
She thought about telling him she always needed him, but didn’t. Sitting down in the chair at her desk, she was scooped up by Thad, then was sitting on his lap before she could speak. He held her tightly as he looked at Blair.
“I’ll pledge to you if she does.” She looked at Thad as he continued speaking to her. “We both know that as our alpha, he can demand that we pledge, but he’s asking. And what will it cost us to pledge to him? Nothing. But we gain more. There are things that we can have with this connection that most humans never attain in the world. Most of which, as he’s pointed out, help.”
“He’ll know everything. Our depression, happiness, not to mention, he’ll know when we are fighting.” Thad shrugged. “You don’t understand, he’ll know it all.”
“And what is wrong with that? I doubt that he’ll come running over when we have a fight. And according to the book I read, there is no way for him to know what we’re saying to each other unless we want him to. As for our depression, I might want him to bring me out of my funk. But to be honest with you, Diamond, I doubt very much I’ll be there again. You’ve made me the happiest man in the world.”
She flushed at him, and he smiled. “You just want him to go away so we can have sex on this desk.”
Blair stood up as he spoke. “I’m out of here. Too much information. But I would like very much for you two to think about it.”
After he left, Thad held her while neither of them spoke. When she felt her eyes drift shut, she snuggled deeper into his arms until she let her body relax. Nothing in this world could have made her feel like she did right at that moment. And as sleep took her, she thought she heard him say that he loved her.
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Thad watched Diamond sleep. She was his world now, and he wanted to prove how much he loved her more and more daily. As soon as he was sure she was sound asleep, he shifted her in his arms and lifted her up. Laying her on the couch was easy, but letting her go wasn’t. When she opened her eyes and looked at him, he felt himself fall over into the “Christ, I can’t live without you” phase and over into the “I’ll die without you” kind of love.
“You are the best thing that has ever happened to me.” Thad smiled as she continued talking softly to him. “I want to spend the rest of my life trying to show you how much I love you.”
“And I love you too. I want to be a better person because of you.” She touched her fingers to his face and he kissed them. “Oh Diamond, do you have any idea what you do to me every time I look at you?”
“Yes, I think I do.” Sitting up, he leaned back on his heels and watched her. “I’d very much like to break in my desk now. I have a need to scream out your name while you take me hard.”