The Trouble With Trying to Save an Assassin (Murder Sprees and Mute Decrees #2)

by Jennifer Cody

My phone buzzes just as I’m getting to the good part of my current read. It’s the 50% sex scene; you know what I’m talking about. We spent thirty percent of the book playing will-we-won’t-we, and then twenty percent getting ready for the yes-we-will, and now we’re at the gonna-do-this-thing, and I am here for it. Except I’m not because of the text that comes in from the depot. Messengers of Evil: Bill Barnum. Under the bridge at 125th Street between Kaiser and King. 2:20 p.m. I breathe in through my nose and out through my mouth and get my fancy ass up from where I’m reclining on Fox’s chest while he snoozes on the couch. Well, he’s not snoozing now because of the message from the source of all evil—ooh, I’m changing the depot’s contact info in my phone to that! I dip down and kiss his lips before snapping at Bellamy and pointing at the chair he’s currently occupying. “Do I look like I have a death wish?” He asks, shaking his head at me, wide-eyed like my instructions are ridiculous. I grin at him and pat his bouncy, ginger curls instead of texting him to tell him he’s a good boy. I’m just glad we’re on the same page about his safety. He huffs at me, but notice how he doesn’t pull his head out of the way or reject my parental love. In fact— I bend and kiss his forehead right smack in the middle and make some clicking sounds in my mouth when I try to mime, Love you, to him. Bellamy snorts and shakes his head. “I know, you ridiculous person.” He doesn’t wipe my kiss away, an...