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A shiver of anticipation raced through me. I glanced across the interior of the car, but he was paying no attention to me as he squinted at something across the street.
“There,” he murmured, pointing. “That’s Brick’s car. He’s already here.”
I glanced in the direction that he was looking, and my eyebrows shot up. “You mean that really flashy and expensive, bright orange Porsche?”
“Mm hmm.” Too distracted to answer me properly, he frowned at the entrance of Preston Estates.
My eyebrows only lifted more. “And you drive this?” When he frowned at me, I lifted my hands. “Don’t get me wrong. This is a nice luxury car with every amenity there is. But compared to that ostentatious beauty right there, this beige heap is as boring as hell.”
He exhaled and shook his head. “Tells you a lot about our two very different personalities, doesn’t it?”
“I’ll say.”
Turning back to the entrance of the building, I started to get very curious about this brother of his. Lana had pretty much called him a man-whore when describing him the other day, but I’d still kind of pictured him as a replica of Hayden, all dry and sarcastic and scathing with killer glares that made you want to flash your claws out and scratch him…all down the back as he thrust inside you. But, huh, maybe he wasn’t like Hayden at all.
When Hayden sat up suddenly, I glanced at him and then followed his gaze back to Preston Estates. When I made out Lana in the gray evening, my attention turned to the man beside her.
“Is that him?” My brow furrowed in disappointment when I couldn’t get a very good look at him through the dark. “Damn, I can’t see him very well. What does he look like?”
Hayden zipped a startled glance my way. “Why do you want to know what Brick looks like?”
I shrugged and flushed. “No reason. Just curious.” When he continued to frown at me suspiciously, I scowled back and blurted what I really wanted to know, “Is he as hot as you are?”
Damn. I shouldn’t have asked that. It went straight to his head. All he obviously heard was that I’d called him hot.
His eyes flashed with smug awareness and his lips quirked up in that superior, self-satisfied way of his right before he answered, “Of course not.”
I snorted and shook my head. Typical Hayden answer. “Come on,” I said, pushing the door open. “Let’s get in and get out.”
“Good idea.” He followed my lead, hurrying around the car to meet me on the sidewalk. “We probably only have about twenty minutes, so we need to work fast.”
“But I thought you asked your brother to distract her for two hours?”
“You’re right.” He took my hand and hurried us through the side door. “That means we probably only have about ten minutes then. Brick can’t distract Lana worth shit.”
“What?!” I shrieked in alarm. “Ten minutes doesn’t sound like enough time at all.”
He obviously disagreed. “We’re only checking one place. It’ll be plenty of time.”
I nodded, even as I gulped and started to grow a little worried about what we were doing. I actually knew whose place I was breaking into this time, and I was fully aware of just how dangerous she could be. Double-crossing her was not a smart plan. And yet, to help Hayden and Kaitlynn and everyone else, I merely picked up my pace, half jogging to keep up with him.
Her front door was closer than the back, so we went in that way. Hayden snapped his keycard from his pocket, and a quick slide later, we were in, slipping past the diamond-coated door.
We both paused in the entrance a moment after the door shut behind us as if to make certain we were really alone in the apartment, even though we’d both just watched his mother leave.
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p; We had good reason to be cautious.
Once Hayden felt secure, he squeezed my fingers and rasped, “Okay. Let’s go.”
Dashing through the front room, we hurried down the hall that led into the dining room and then the kitchen.
“I’m taller; I’ll check,” Hayden said as soon as we reached the island.
It wasn’t a good time to argue about who did what—even though I so did love to disagree with him—so I merely nodded and watched as he hiked himself onto the countertop.
I blinked. But damn. Up there on display, he looked good in the jeans and the blue chambray shirt he wore. I’d never seen him out of a suit or tux before. I liked this look just as much. In fact, if he wanted to do a strip show for me right about now, I’d—
