Avengement (Heart of Stone) (4 page)

I’m sure he discharged a distraught sob but he coughed to
cover it and I rolled my lips, relishing the fact that it was now my turn to
struggle with the belt of humour.

“Uhh…”

I gasped loudly but phonily, however, Mason didn’t need
to know that. “So not only are you refusing to take me home, you are making me
stand in the middle of nowhere naked!”

“But…” He shot various glances between me and his shirt
before he sighed sadly and grabbed the hem, lifting it slowly over his head and
jerkily held it out to me.

I smiled at him and held my hand out but he snatched it
back quickly and held it against his bare chest, “Mason, would you like me to
say a prayer.”

He scowled at me and grumbled something under his breath
as he closed his eyes and gave it me. I chuckled quietly as I slipped it over
my naked chest and sighed happily. He did love me, and enough to give me his
sacred t-shirt.

A white van pulled in as Marcy waved frantically out of
the windscreen at me and I beamed happily.

“Ava!” she chirped as she ran over and skidded to a halt
inches from me when the stench hit her nostrils. “Jesus Christ hun, what the
hell happened?”

I shot a glare at Mason and proceeded to fill her in as
Sam came round and opened the rear doors. “I am not fucking cattle!” I barked
at him.

He coughed and said something which I didn’t catch. A
bark of laughter broadcast from Mason and I whipped my face to his, “What? What
did he say?”

“Nothing baby, just that it’s a hired vehicle and you can’t
mucky the seats. You’ll have to get in the back.” He had the grace to grimace –
luckily for him.

“You are gonna pay for this, Fox!” I growled as I clambered
in the back of the van and huddled against the side, drawing my knees up and
hugging them.

“I saved you from a rabid bloody badger!” he declared
with astonishment.

“We were getting on fine until you came along!” I scoffed,
“You just scared him.”

He sighed and shook his head, “Of course, baby.”

I nodded and narrowed my eyes but he grinned and winked,
the action bubbling my tummy with happy detonations. “Do I get a kiss?” I asked
with a quirked brow.

His eyes perused my body as I swiftly opened my knees and
shot him a look at my sexy shit filled knickers. He laughed heartily as he
grabbed my upper arms and pulled me towards him, “You know what Ava Fox, no
matter how much shit you bring into my life, you always partner it with so much
happiness that I can’t help but love you.”

“And me, you” I whispered flashing my pearly whites at
him, the only clean thing left of me before I slipped my hand behind his head
and brought it close to mine, devouring my glorious bastard in a toe curling
kiss.

He didn’t realise I wiped my fingers in his hair whilst I
was there.

The End