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I swear, the guy was obsessed with money. Not that I was complaining. While I earned a decent amount from the jobs I did for Rufus and Carlos, it was Silas who ensured we were financially secure.
He’d invested in crypto early on, and by his own account, we were fucking loaded. Which was sweet. Once the weather lifted, I planned to treat my beautiful mate to anything she wanted. I knew she dreamed of visiting places she’d not seen before. I’d watched as her eyes lit up when she found a book on the shelf about Europe, and vowed that one day, I would take her there.
Our girl deserved the world, and I planned to hand it to her on a fucking silver platter. Silas could pay for it. Shit like that made him happy.
“Dinner will be about an hour. Why don’t you go soak in the tub, sweetheart?” Cole, our resident broody hen, was saying when my mind tuned back in.
“That sounds like a plan,” Eva agreed. Her small hands were still cold, and I shivered when she pressed them against my abs. Not from the cold - I rarely noticed the cold - but from the fact her fingers were mere millimeters away from my cock.
She giggled, misinterpreting my reaction.
“Naughty girl,” I growled as she skipped away. “I’ll spank your backside pink later!” Her cheeks flushed bright red. The scent of her arousal told me she liked the idea of being spanked. Cole’s eyes flared gold, and I knew he could also smell her scent.
Her arousal was the sweetest perfume, and I couldn’t get enough of her.
“I’d run if I were you,” I warned. “Otherwise, I’m bending you over the table and both of us will fuck you senseless.”
With a squeak of outrage, she was gone.
Cole exhaled heavily and adjusted his dick in his pants. I did the same. I seemed to spend most of my time hard these days. Life was truly a trial.
“Go on, tell me what you found,” he said.
I grabbed the bottle of bourbon from the counter and poured a generous measure.
“Something triggered one of my cameras early this morning, so I went for a run to see if whoever had been sniffing around was still there. They weren’t, but I found footprints and the scent of two guys. It looked like they’d hiked up and explored some of the area south of the cabin. That was the only place where they got close to the cabin, but it highlights what we all think: this guy Brent isn’t backing off. He is still searching for Eva and he believes she’s in the area. I suspect someone has told him about us and he thinks we have her.”
“I think you’re right,” Cole agreed. “So, what are we going to do?”
I drained the rest of the bourbon and poured another large measure.
“Do about what?” Silas interjected.
“Finished counting your coins, Midas?”
“Fuck off, Tanner. My money helps pay for your top-shelf bourbon,” he sneered, not impressed by my shameless goading, as per usual.
“I can afford to buy booze, thanks very much. My services are always in demand.”
Cole glared at the pair of us. “Can we get back to the topic at hand? Eva’s safety is more important than you two scoring points off each other.”
That made Silas sit up and take notice. “Is she in danger?”
“Tone it down,” I hissed. “I don’t want her hearing any of this. She’s said nothing to me, but I know she’s still low-key anxious about being found by her guardian.”
Cole raised one eyebrow. “And how do you know this?”
“I sneaked a look at her journal while she was asleep.” Both Silas and Cole looked furious. I shrugged, ignoring the twinge of discomfort in my chest. Needs must. If violating Eva’s privacy meant I could protect her better, then I was down for that.
“I knew I should have bought a journal with a lock,” Silas grumbled.
“I can pick locks, dickhead.” His fist narrowly missed my face, and I smirked again. He was so easy to wind up. It was hilarious.
“For fuck’s sake, will you two knock it off already? We don’t have time for this bullshit. Our mate is in danger. We gotta come up with a plan.”
Cole’s words were like a bucket of ice water. He was right. The time for fucking around was gone. If the guy I’d scented was Brent - and I strongly suspected it was - he needed putting down.
“I say we wait for him to reappear and then kill him.”
