Unplugged: A Bad Boy Rockstar Romance (41 page)

Maggie gasped and closed her hand
tightly. In the chaos of the kidnapping
, she hadn’t
even noticed the rosary fall out of her pocket. She looked at Jase with a teary
smile. She felt too overwhelmed to speak.

Jase returned the smile and put a gentle
hand on her head, smoothing her hair.
“
I never did get you that coffee.
”

She cl
eared
her throat.
“
That sounds nice,
”
said Maggie.
“
I think I’ll stay right here this time.
”

Jase laughed. He bent and gave her a
kiss.
“
I wouldn’t mind if you were in that bed
every time I came looking.
”

He headed down the hall towards the
kitchen and Maggie called after him,
“
Like you
’
re that lucky!
”
She heard him chuckle to himself.

Maggie sunk into the warm softness of
Jase
’
s bed and clenched her mother
’
s rosary tightly in her palm. It was
probably all
in her fuzzy mind, but she thought the
beads felt hot under her touch. She listened to the sounds of Jase in the
kitchen, the soft chirping of the summer birds outside the window, the faraway
hum of tractors on the farmland.

Safe, loved, and warm, Maggie
realized, in that moment, that her life had become better
than any daydream she could conjure. Henry had said she only need find hands
that can handle her. There was no question
—
if there ever had been
—
whose hands she needed.

It was only Jase who tamed the fire in her heart.

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