Between HeVan and Hell by Lucy Kelly Read Free Book Online Page B

on as if he
hadn’t heard them.
    “Grace, when I went out of town I told
you I had an important question to ask you.” He took a deep breath,
“Grace, will you marry me?”
    She sat there for a moment, stunned.
Then she pulled herself together and gave him a shove in the chest,
which did no good because he was planted solidly in front of
her.
    “Jalen, you’re supposed to wait until
we’re having our romantic dinner and I’m all dressed up and looking
gorgeous,” she wailed, not quite following. This wasn’t in the
script.
    “I just couldn’t wait another moment
to find out if you were going to be mine for the rest of my life,”
he said.
    “Give him a break, lady,” said a guy
from a nearby table, whose wife just slapped his arm and said he
was as romantic as a potato.
    “I really missed you, Grace,” said
Jalen.
    “I missed you, too, Jalen and yes,
I’ll marry you,” she said, running her hands up his
chest.
    He took advantage to swoop down for a
quick kiss as the crowd around them started to clap and
cheer.
    “That should tide me over for a little
bit. I’ve wanted a taste of you all day. Are these your bags? Come
on, honey, let’s get going.”
    He gathered up her bags in one large
hand and put the other around her waist and off they went, her
watchers following behind.
    “Hey, where’s my ring?” she was heard
to say as they walked away.
    A few minutes later they were climbing
into the back seat of a brand-new Escalade. “What do you think,
Grace; I just picked it up today,” he asked as he got in beside
her.
    “It’s really nice, hon…”
    That’s all Anton’s watchers could hear
before the door closed and they drove away. Grace’s friend stepped
out from the store she’d ducked into and walked up to him. He
immediately called Anton, so they could give their reports. Anton
wasn’t going to be happy at all about the marriage proposal, or the
size of the boyfriend. He moved like he could take care of
himself.
    In the car, Grace was looking at both
Jalen and Jett. They were about the same height, although Jett
might be a fraction of an inch taller and broader of shoulder.
Also, where Jalen had light blue eyes, Jett had dark-brown eyes,
almost as dark as hers and short lighter brown hair. They both had
lean angled jaws and squared-off chins. Straight aquiline noses
with deep-set eyes and very kissable lips completed her inspection.
“I’ve been dreaming of you both for days and your other brother,
too. What’s going on, why is this happening?”
    “We are a perfect match.
Your soul calls to ours, Kasharra ,” said Jalen.
    “What does that
mean— Kasharra ?”
asked Grace.
    “It means you bring joy to
us. You cause us joy by being around you. And it’s true, you know.
We’ve waited almost five hundred years to meet the one female in
the entire universe that is our Join . We’d almost given up hope,”
said Jett from the front seat.
    They were stopped at a red light, so
he turned around and gave her a smile and a wink. She didn’t even
realize she was settled in Jalen’s arms as if she belonged there,
and she did.
    She also belongs in my
arms. It was going to be difficult when they were in public
together, Jett thought to himself. I’ll be glad when this undercover assignment is
over .
    “You sure learned English fast. I was
surprised when you told me to meet you in the Food Court,” said
Grace.
    “That was Becky,” answered Jalen. “She
suggested it and told me where it was. She also gave us all the
particulars of the case and said she was passing off a flash drive
to you.” When he saw Grace nod her head, he went on.
    “Well, Jett is going to download the
contents of the file onto a nano-patch for us so we can absorb the
information directly into our brains. We have one stop to make, and
then we’re headed to your condo on the lake that Becky says is in
our name temporarily. She couldn’t find another location so we’ll
have to be careful and try not to let you be