Chapter 121

“I hear you can get married in black here, wearing a gun and carrying your wench kicking and screaming over your shoulder. I do, is merely a suggestion.” It’s said in the deadpan, emotionless manner he excels at, but I can tell it’s his version of humour. I don’t find him funny at all, looking at me in that straight-faced, relaxed way of his with those pale greys eating my soul to death. I raise a brow and stare right back. An unamused look in return as if to say, ‘you even try it, and I will maim you’.

“It’s only legal if she says I do.” I point out drily. My heart is thundering out of my rib cage even though I know this is only in jest. Clammy palms and trembling limbs follow abruptly, and that breathless feeling adds to my heat-induced dizziness.

Alexi smirks and shakes his head at me.

“Calm down, feisty. No one is kidnapping you to throw you down the aisle with me. We’re here to see a casino and take a break from normal life while Mico does more digging on yest