Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(127)

Not surprisingly, the only color of sheets the girl owned was pink. So he grabbed what he swore was the exact same sheets and changed her bed. When he looked over at her, she was watching him, her green eyes as dull as her skin, something he never thought would happen. He went over to her, picking her up, bringing her to her bed.

“Do you feel better, baby?” She nodded, but then a tear ran down over her nose, onto her top puffy lip. “Then why are you crying?”

More tears began to fall before she opened her eyes, “I didn’t want you to see me like this.”

“Oh, honey, don’t worry about that, you’re beautiful even when you’re sick, you’re always beautiful to me.”

“I’m disgusting,” she said as more tears fell from her eyes. He shook his head, moving his fingers to catch every tear.

“That is not the D word I was thinking,” he said with a grin.

Elli blinked before asking, “What?”

“I was thinking delicious, maybe delectable. In other words, Elli, I want to eat you up, always.”

“But I’m-”

“Perfect.”

“Shea, I’m far from it. You should leave while you have the chance, these kinds of things can happen. One minute I’m pissed as hell at you, the next I’m on the floor and can’t move. Get out while you can,” she pleaded as she looked up at him.

“While I can, huh? Who said I could?”

“You should.”

“I’m not going. Don’t you know that by now? Don’t you understand that I’m here, and there is no way I’m leaving? I love you, Elli. I don’t know how you were loved before, but I’m going to love you more than anybody ever will or ever has. I’m here for you because I love you, not your money. Not because your uncle owns the team, or because you have a successful business. That’s not what drew me to you, it was your eyes….and your ass.” When she smiled, his heart filled with all the love in the world, he loved making her smiled, “but mostly your eyes. I’m so sorry about what happen with them females in Florida.”

“I’m not mad, I just didn’t understand why you didn’t pull back.”

“She was sucking my face, Elli! I’m surprised I have lips still!” She smiled again, moving deeper into the bed, closing her eyes. “I’m not gonna hurt you, Elli, I promise.”

She opened her eyes again, looking deep into his before saying, “I believe you.”





When Elli woke up the next morning, she felt five times better, which was how it usually happened. The first day she would puke her brains out, the second, she couldn’t move because the fever set in, and then the third she was finally able to move but still needed to stay in bed. The next couple days she would be bed ridden, but at least she would be able to use the bathroom and take a shower by herself.

She hated that Shea saw her like that, she hated that he had cleaned her house, her bathroom, and she hated that he had given her a bath. She would be forever embarrassed and hated that, too! He really was the most amazing man in the world and she couldn’t believe that not six months ago, he was sleeping with anything with legs. That his idea of having a good time was drinking and sleeping with a random female, but now, lying in bed feeding her soup was what he was doing and he seemed to enjoy it.

“I can feed myself,” she said with a glare as he held the spoon to her mouth, a smirk came across his face.

“Don’t be angry; just let me take care of you.”

“You’re always taking care of me,” she countered before she opened her mouth, swallowing the hot, yummy liquid. It was her favorite soup, and it warmed her whole body as it went down her throat.

“Because that’s what you do for your girlfriend. You know if I got sick, or if I drunk myself into a stupor, I know you would take care of me and I wouldn’t be embarrassed at all.”

“How’d you know I was embarrassed?”

He smiled, feeding her another spoonful of the most amazing soup on earth. God, she was starving. “I know you, Elli. Now that I know the extent of your sickness, I’m pretty sure I know everything.”

“You do not.”

“I do, too.”

“You don’t know about Justin,” she don’t know why she said it because Lord knew she didn’t want to talk about him but when Shea started laughed, it pissed her off as she raised her eyebrows.

“Actually, I do.”

“Huh?”

He laughed, before handing her a glass of hot tea, “You told me all about asshat the night you got trashed.”

A heavy feeling filled her stomach as she incredulously stared at him. She knew that she had diarrhea of the mouth when she was drunk, but come on! She told him about Justin! “You’re kidding.”

“Nope, I know all about you now, Ms. Eleanor Rey Fisher.”

“You ass,” she sneered playfully as he chuckled, feeding her some more. They sat in silence as he finished feeding her, she didn’t know what to say because he did know her insides and outs now, and for some reason, she felt good.

Happy even.

“You wanna try to get up? Walk around a little?”

“No, maybe tomorrow.”

“Okay,” he said standing, taking her dishes in his hands, “I’m going to go clean up the mess I made, do you need anything?”