26KillianHolley leaned up on her tiptoes to kiss me, her hands trailing over my leather jacket. The kiss wasn't chaste by any means, but it was guarded. I smiled a little because I knew what she was trying to disguise was her anxiety, but I already knew just how worried she was about this. “I'm going to be fine,” I told her for the umpteenth time as we broke apart.
“I know,” she said, and I could hear an honest conviction in her voice. “I just don't like seeing you go off on a raid like this,” she said. “I know what happened in the last one, remember?”
“This one is better planned, thanks to you,” I reminded her. “And anyway, if this is successful, this could be the last raid that I ever have to go on. And if it is, then I'll have plenty of time to take care of you and Cole the way that y
