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“Please, Jed,” she whispered, desperate. “Don’t wait. ”
She wanted him now. Foreplay could come later.
He moved closer, his legs parting hers as his head lifted from her breast.
Piper forced her eyes open.
She wanted to watch, wanted to see him take her.
She was on the verge of begging when the world suddenly upended.
One second she was lying beneath Jed, anticipation tearing through her senses.
In the next second it felt as though she were flying through the air before she landed against Jed’s hard body, only to be rolled quickly to the floor.
Everything happened so fast. Too fast.
Wide-eyed, shocked, she let her gaze follow his hand as he reached beneath her bed, jerked out a lethal black handgun, then leveled it over the top of the bed with steely-eyed intent.
As she rolled to her stomach to push herself from the floor, she heard the lazy, less-than-amused drawl.
“Jed, do you have a fucking death wish?”
Dawg didn’t sound pissed, but he didn’t sound approving either. It was a dangerous tone of voice that assured all those listening that his mood could swing either way.
He was ready to talk, and in true “Dawg” style, he was barging right in.
Lips tightening, Piper jerked the sheet Jed had dragged off the bed as they rolled, and wrapped it quickly around her naked body. Peeking over the side of the bed, she growled back at her brother.
“Why are you sneaking into my bedroom?”
Dawg’s brow lifted. “Little sister, I wasn’t sneaking. Your door was unlocked. ”
“The hell it was. ” Struggling with the sheet with one hand to keep it around her, Piper used the other to push her hair back from her face as she glared at Dawg.
She was all too aware of Jed moving to his feet, completely at ease with his nudity and not the least bit ashamed as he collected his clothes. Dawg’s expression tightened, his mood shifting toward that dangerous mark.
“Don’t call me a liar, Piper,” Dawg warned her then. “I said the door was unlocked. Trust me; it was unlocked. ”
“I locked that door earlier, Dawg,” she told him, suddenly aware that something simply wasn’t right where his entrance was concerned. “I remember securing it. And neither Jed nor myself has gone out of it since. ”
Dawg’s gaze narrowed. “I wasn’t exactly quiet when I pulled in and called out to Mercedes to tell her I was coming around to your room. ” His gaze swung to Jed as he laid his shirt across the table before securing the belt on his jeans. “I guess there’s not a chance in hell you heard anything?”
Jed cleared his throat. As he glanced at her, Piper felt her face flushing heatedly.
She knew exactly why they hadn’t heard anything.
“Figures. ” Dawg grunted, drawing Piper’s attention back to him. “You’re certain the door was locked?”
Tipping her head to the side, she stared back at him with mocking disbelief. “Really, Dawg?”
/> They both knew she was certain. Piper was the one often found checking all the doors and windows in the middle of the night, to be certain no one could slip into the suite.
Lifting his hand, he pushed his fingers through his hair in agitation before staring back at her, his celadon gaze filled with concern. “Piper, please God, tell me what’s going on before someone does more than bruise your face. ”
She knew that door had been locked, which meant someone had unlocked it at a time when they would have believed she was otherwise occupied.
They were there looking for something.
