Chapter Six
COLTON
The determination in her step causes laughter to erupt from my core. I turn toward the stall where Snickers is, and I can hear her following me.
“So…” She lingers. When I stop and turn around, glaring at her with a smirk, she swallows hard. “You can guarantee I won’t get hurt?”
I take a few steps toward her. “My main job is to ensure you make it back in one piece.”
Her eyebrow shoots up. “Ensuring isn’t the same as guaranteeing.”
The next step I take makes her breath hitch. Her eyes soften before she breaks our gaze.
“I guarantee it, Red.”
A moment passes between us, and the silent draws on. Her tongue darts out and licks her plump bottom lip, and I long to pull her into my arms and kiss the fire out of her.
“I’ll take your word for it then,” she adds with a sma
