Benny
I made it halfway to the meeting point before I admitted I had absolutely no business smiling.
The road was empty, my hands were tight around the steering wheel, and somewhere ahead of me Nixx was preparing to walk onto a Hell’s Fire property where JJ’s daughter was being held.
Yet my brain kept dragging me backward to my house.
To JJ sitting on the couch.
To the way I had bent down without thinking and kissed her forehead like it was something I had done a hundred times before.
I hadn’t planned it. Hadn’t even realized I was going to do it until my mouth touched her skin.
Then Charlie had opened her f*****g mouth.
I rubbed a hand over my face and forced my attention back to the road.
It didn’t mean anything.
I had spent a week helping take care of JJ. I had checked her med
