Page 106 of An Epic Voyage

“I’m so happy to see you.”His voice was gruff.

“Me too, seeing you, that is.What do you say we blow this popsicle stand and find somewhere we can canoodle?”She wiggled her brows, which looked strange with her swollen face.

His lip twitched.“Canoodle?A little archaic, don’t you think?And here you chastised me for using words such as ‘lovely’ and ‘hold your horses’.”

“Would you prefer getting jiggy with it?Do the horizontal hustle?The mattress mambo?”

He chuckled, loving her sense of humor.“All work fine, but not until your doctor gives the all clear.You need to rest and recuperate.”She was already leaving with an extra hole in her body.

Indigo sobered.“I remember telling you that you owed me, or at least I think I did.It’s all a little fuzzy.But, Griffin, that’s not true.You saved my life too, and I haven’t thanked you.”

“There’s no need.I’m just so sorry you got shot.Worst moment of my life.I’d have taken the bullet if I could.”

“I’m fine, and a sadistic killer doesn’t have possession of a nuclear weapon since it was fake, so mission complete.”

“It wasn’t.”

“What?We didn’t complete it?”

“You did, but the nuke was real.”

Her brows furrowed.“I remember the doctor saying it was a fraud.”Her eyes widened, and she tried to sit up.“Did it explode with the bomb?Should we be worried about radiation poisoning?”

He eased her back to the mattress.“No, we’re fine, and it wasn’t on the yacht.Dr.Cheung lied because he didn’t want Abdullahi to get his hands on it.I sent him to the speedboat with Jordy.It survived the blast.Your bosses took possession of it.”

She exhaled.“Thank goodness.How is Jordy?”

“Sleeping when I checked on him.Franklin doesn’t look good, but they won’t give me any information.”

She reached up and traced the bruising on his face.“Did you have someone check your jaw?”

“Sure.”

Her eyes narrowed.“Are you lying to me, Griffin Decker?”

He took her hand and kissed it.“It’s fine.That’s not what I want to talk about.”

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Griffin had turnedserious, and that made Indigo’s gut clench.Now that the mission was over, was he ready to move on?Go back to his old life?He’d been undercover for months.She’d only did it for a couple of weeks at a time, and that was tough.It had to have been hard on him.

She wasn’t ready for their ...whatever it was, to end.It felt like more than an affair.Her feelings were fully engaged.Maybe it was too soon to think long term, but the thought of never seeing him again would’ve brought her to her knees had she been standing.

She sucked it up and asked, “What do you want to talk about?”

“Us.This.”He motioned between them.“What’s happened is—”

A knock sounded on the door, and Jordy’s head appeared through the crack.

“Hey, can I come in?”

Argh!It would be rude to tell him to come back later, wouldn’t it?“Hey, Jordy.Of course.”

He looked worse for wear, but better than the last time she saw him.

“How are you feeling?”

“Okay.You?”