chapter 25

Rex

"Are you afraid of heights?" Leo asks me.

I squeeze his hand tighter as we walk. "Can't be when you're as tall as me."

Leo then looks up at Isabella who has him by the other hand. "Will I be that tall?"

"Maybe, mijo," she says, then gives me a sweet, glimmering look.

"You want some practice?" I ask.

Leo nods excitedly. I scoop him up off the ground and tuck him onto my hip. He gasps with delight, clinging to my neck. "I'm so high up!"

Isabella scoots into the spot Leo had beside me and wraps her hand around my bicep. "Careful with your..." Her other hand touches my midsection. It is an intimacy that feels like we've been together for years rather than days.

"I've done a lot more physical activity than this, Isabella," I say, raising my eyebrows. Because that's the truth. Any moment we get alone, we're usually contorting our bodies for pleasure. If something was going to ruin my recovery, it already would have happened.

She bites on her tongue, smiling. "You're bad."

Leo shoves his