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I’m about to tell her to freeze it when I hear Gray on the phone.
“Ley, get your ass back here. You promised, and we need to talk about all this. Franci is family now.” He pauses as he listens to her. “Okay.” He hangs up and turns back to look at his wife. “She said sorry, but she’s going to take Franci back to the loft and will be back.”
“What happened out there?” Rika asks, and I just shake my head. I have an idea, but I don’t know if I want to put to words what I think happened.
“I’m not sure.”
* * *
Ridley
I just want to go back inside the house and make sure she’s okay, but Franci insisted that she’s fine. I don’t know what to think. I heard her call Gambit by his real name, something very few people know. Not even many of his brothers know it. I do because when I had to reveal myself to him, I gave him my truths, and he gave me his.
I told Franci to stay at the house, and I made sure that I had a team on her before I headed back to Erika and Gray’s place. I don’t want to go back, but I made a promise, and I try not to break them.
My life is crazy busy. Ryan wants me to do a background search with a location on a guy who was married to another doctor he knows. I know there is more he isn’t telling me about the female physician, but I’ll help him. I’m fairly certain he doesn’t have a romantic relationship with her because he’s hopelessly in love with his wife who just had his baby. I pull back up to Gray’s place when I see Ryan pull in behind me. I must send this text before I go in there.
Me
Don’t expect to rush off and us not talk. Tonight at 2200, your place.
Gambit
Who’s watching her?
I’m glad he didn’t use her name.
Me
She has a team on her and is locked in my penthouse.
Gambit
Good. My team will make sure she doesn’t leave.
I shake my head, confident I know what’s going on now. I’m going to kick his ass.
* * *
Dinner started out being awkward because all of us have secrets from each other. Mostly me. I carry my plate from the patio, where we sat outside to eat, into the kitchen. I try to keep my cover so Erika doesn’t know that I know the layout of her house.
“Where is the restroom?” I ask her.
“Around the corner. There is one in the garage or upstairs.”
“I’ll use that one.” I point toward the garage area and make my way out to there. When I open the door after I’m done, I’m pulled deeper into the darkness of the garage. If not for his scent of spicy cinnamon and bourbon, I’d be fighting him.
“Fuck, love, I want to shove my cock so far past those puffy lips until you’re choking on it. The whole time you were eating, I was jealous of your fork,” he growls in my ear, and I shiver from my need.
I spin in his arms, and he lifts me up. My back is pressed to the wall, and his tongue is in my mouth.
“Ley, you out here?” My brother has awful timing.
I pull away, and Leif lets me slide down his body. Both of us groan, and I step out of the darkness, leaving him there to adjust himself. I turn to look at my brother.
“What?” I throw my hands up. “Can’t a girl use the potty without her brother wanting to girl talk?” I joke with him.
“Babushka called. She will be flying in tomorrow.”
