Karma planed to never kill anyone again.
She planned leave the group of assassins she thought of as family, and never look back.
However, to save her step-brother she would have to take one last job.
For this hit she would need an extra gun, and...
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*Chapter 19*
As Karma woke, she realized she was still next to Rea. They had fallen asleep. She pushed at the makeshift blindfold. The fabric was caught in her hair. Her eyes alighted on the digital clock on the computer. She guessed she'd only been out for a short time. Her face turned to Rea.
Rea's green eyes blinked slowly in the soft light. She was so sexually sedated that unless Fletcher showed up at this moment to kill them both, she wasn't moving. Karma wanted to stay snuggled next to Rea for a year. She didn't remember ever being this content even when she and Rea were first together.
"You wiped me out," she whispered.
Rea ran the tip of his finger over her eyebrow and then down her nose and chin. His hands smelled like soap and his hair was damp. He must've gotten up and showered. She'd slept right through it. Karma wanted to laugh when she realized he indeed had knocked her out. She never slept this hard.
He traced her face slowly and let his hand wander over her chest and stomach. Whenever he hit a scar, he paused and ran his fingers over the raised skin before touching some other part of her. He looked at her beaten body, but he didn't appear disgusted, merely inquisitive.
"Why don't you leave? I've nothing to offer you. I'm tied here."
"You know why I won't go."
"I've tried to get rid of you." Rea rolled onto his back. He stacked his hands on his chest.
"I know you've tried."
"I wanted you to know who I am. What it's like here."
"I get it."
"I've told you every horrible thing I could think of. I've even given you jobs my men find irritating. Hell, Karma, you've cleaned every weapon I own, yet you're still with me. The way I fucked you a bit ago, it was hard. I'm hard on things. I'm hard on you. I don't know how to be with someone. I'm happy alone."
"I don't believe you're happy alone. I don't think you'll ever be happy without me. I wouldn't be happy without you, either." Karma chose her words carefully and she let them sit in the air between them.
"Damn it, Karma, are you going to leave again?"
"I'll leave if you tell me to go, and you mean it. I do want you happy if nothing else. Please believe that."
"I told you to go when you first showed up," Rea muttered.
"But I knew you didn't mean it." Karma grinned and snuggled closer.
Rea wrapped one arm around her. She could tell he didn't want her to go away. He stated it because he thought he had to. He thought he was ruining her life by keeping her here, but it wasn't real. He needed more time to see that they could be happy wherever they were. The sex had helped as she'd thought. Now, all she had to do was give him a little more time.
