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Fifty-fucking-grand was a lot of cash just to find some girl.
I didn’t know who this chick was and why anyone would pay that kind of cash for her, but fuck it - wasn’t my job to think past finding the silver Honda she’d last been seen in.
Like the fuckin’ one parked right there at the old Lux station.
Holy fuck.
Connor and I looked at each other at the same damn time as we roared past the place, and I saw him nod, his face grim. I mean what were the fucking odds that the very girl we were looking for would drive throughParkerinstead of taking the highway? I nodded back as we both slowed at the same time, before we pulled a turn in the road and started to head back. Hell, it mightnotbe here, but damned if we weren’t going to check those plates and make sure. I reached back into the saddlebag on the bike behind me, loosening the pistol from the holster it was buckled into. The chances of having touse itwere pretty fucking slim, but I always erred on the side of being prepared.
I kept my hand on the gun as we pulled in and slowed to a stop. And then I almost had to grin as I saw the girl that matched the very description we were looking for, sitting in the car with the same damn plates we were looking for.
Yeah, this was about to be the easiest fifty thousand buck we’d ever made.
* * *
“So now what.”
I took a deep breath as I watched Abby’s car pull out of the gas station and trail off down the road. I reached into my pocket and pulled my pack of smokes out, sticking one in my mouth as I glanced at Connor. “She doesn’t know.”
He snorted and snatched the pack from my hand. “No shit, man. I mean now what the fuck are we gonna do.”
I sparked my lighter, holding the flame to the end of the cigarette and inhaling before tossing it to Con. “Jesus Christ, what’s a girl that looks like that doing getting caught up with the fuckin mob?”
And the bruises. I know we’d both seen them - the ones on her arms and the swelling around her eye she’d tried to hide with sunglasses and her hair - and I knew it hit a chord with both of us. We’d both come from families of men who hit women. My dad had the decency to develop a heroine addiction and die young, Connor’s had taken his mother and him both off the side of a highway doing one-twenty.
Fuck that shit.
The guys who’d called us had said this girl Abby had “wronged” the family, and “tried to hurt important members.” Yeah, I called bullshit on that. That girl hand’t tried to hurt anyone, and I knew we both damn well knew it.
And of course, there was another thing I knew we both damn well knew.
I hadn’t know what to expect when we rolled into that gas station, but the second she stepped out of that car -man,I was a goner. I’d seen and I’d certainly fucked my share of hot girls in my time, butfuck me, Abby was something else.
“Jesus, man. She was perfect.” I nodded as I turned and cocked a brow at Connor. The look on his face said it all, and I got it because it was the same damn thingIwas thinking.
Floored. I couldn’t remember feeling aninchof what I was feeling inside about Abby with any other girl. Not ever. Here I was watching her drive away - the girl I was beingpaidto hunt down and apprehend - and I couldn’t remember feeling thislightbefore.
Course, I was also hard as a fuckingrockinside my jeans. I’d been that way since the second she stepped out of that car. Something about her was so damninnocent, and wholesome, and yet captivatingly sexy at the same time. She came off as worldly and yet pure, and I’dneverseen that in a woman.
And I knew Connor hadn’t either, just looking at his face.
Con was my best friend, and yeah, over the years, we’dcertainlyshared a few girls - more than a few at the same time. Shit, I mean the guy was like my brother - what was mine was his and vice versa. But just looking at his face and the way his jaw tensed as we watched her drive away, I knew this was a new development. Sure, we’dfuckedgirls at the same time before, but we’d neverfeltfor the same girl.
“We can’t do this job, man,” I said, shaking my head as Abby’s taillights dipped over the horizon.
“Fuck no,” Connor growled. He turned to me. “Jesus fuck man, that girl got into me.”
I nodded. “Same.”
He chuckled. “Yeah, no shit.”
“So what do we do? Pretend we never saw her?”
Connor shook his head. “I have to see her again.” He growled, his hand dropping to the front of his jeans and cupping the bulge there.
I felt the same damn way. It was like she’d ignited some sort of fire in both of us - like she’d woken up the beast inside each of us, and that beastdemandedmore from her.
“We’ll keep an eye on her. If she leaves tonight, that’s it, man. We’re not chasing this girl down or anything.”
