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s ready to kill you and your brother, you know. Him and his daddy both. That look in Summer’s eyes is about to kill everyone who knows her.”
It was killing him and Falcon as well.
Raeg kept watching her.
She stopped and said something to her mother and Aunjenue, shaking her head at her mother’s response. She didn’t smile, she didn’t flit around from group to group, flirting and driving him insane with jealousy. She was just there, physically.
Mike’s muttered curse was ignored just as his warning was, and finally he turned and stalked off, returning to the table where the Calhoun men sat. Thankfully, Summer’s brothers all remained at the table with their father.
No one approached him and Falcon, though Raeg recognized damned near every man there. The intelligence community was actually rather small in some circles and mingled with certain law enforcement and military groups closely.
Those were the men who chatted and socialized with the multitude of women flirting and chatting willingly with them. Still, there were far too many whose eyes followed Summer, who watched her with male interest and speculation.
“Here.” Falcon shoved the drink at him before turning to watch Summer again, his body tight with tension as he sipped at his drink.
This had to end soon, Raeg thought wearily. They couldn’t continue like this. It was killing all of them.
“How much longer do we have to do this?” Falcon growled, the low, guttural tone of his voice at odds with his brother’s normally fiery nature. “I’m not going to deal with these bastards much longer.”
“No one’s touching her,” he reminded his brother.
“They’re undressing her with their eyes and being fucking lewd in their thoughts and it’s pissing me the hell off,” Falcon informed him.
That possessiveness would be the death of all of them, Raeg thought, because it was no different than how he felt. When he and Falcon began agreeing on who needed to die, then there could be problems.
Summer chose that moment to turn and meet his gaze.
Her expression was still and composed, but he could see the pain she was holding back.
“She’s trying to let us go,” Falcon breathed out roughly from beside him. “You know that, don’t you? She’s trying to take on all that hurt herself and just let us go.”
There was no letting them go, Raeg thought. They would walk away, because they had no other choice if they wanted to ensure her safety. But they wouldn’t let her go.
“Do you think she’ll actually marry one of the bastards she meets at one of these parties?” Falcon asked when Raeg didn’t say anything. “You know that’s not going to go over well with me, don’t you?”
Raeg breathed out heavily. Yeah, it wasn’t going to go over well with him either.
Lifting the glass to his lips, he finished his drink before placing his glass on the high table next to where he and Falcon stood, partially in shadow beneath the vine-covered arbor growing next to the two-story historic house.
The brick patio and the paths leading around the back gardens were huge, with dozens of benches and tables scattered around for the guests.
He wasn’t going to make it until midnight.
Each time Summer was stopped by one of the men invited to meet her, he stiffened, recalled what he knew on the bastard and discarded any chance that he’d allow Summer to actually marry that individual. No one here was good enough for her it seemed. Not a single one of the hard-eyed killing machines her father seemed to think so highly of was good enough for her in his opinion.
And not a single damned one of them was going to have her.
* * *
Summer could feel them watching her.
For hours upon hours they watched her, their gazes never wavering, never leaving her.
Summer’s nerves were stretched thin and, surprisingly enough, she was so damned aroused she was about to go crazy. Every inch of her body was so sensitive that even the breeze was a caress.
“Darling, you’re wearing your heart on your sleeve,” the Scot’s soft brogue sounded just behind her, a whisper of sympathy and of warning.
“I hate men,” she muttered, keeping her back turned to Falcon and Raeg and forcing Steven to move around her to face her.
