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Alaska.
By the time Matteo and Carmine, one of the brothers I hadn’t met yet, had found me, I’d been knee deep in scientific research. Hurriedly, I’d started copying files on everything called projectManticore.I had no idea why but I somehow instinctively knew that Augustus Zacharra was far from out of the picture entirely.
By the time we’d finally gotten out of the Hellfire Club altogether, with Tobias nothing more than a bad dream, I’d almost forgotten about the thumb drive I’d copied the files too.
Mason’s loft was closer to the club than my apartment so we went back there.
He walked me into his shower and peeled the stupid ass costume from my body.
“Shower,” Mason’s voice had said quietly.
“Join me?” I leaned against him, completely naked.
“Not right now,” he’d kissed my head. “I’ll put some fresh pajamas out for you.”
“You have pajamas for me…?”
He nodded. “They have Snoopy on them…”
His voice sounding a little gravely, trailed off. He turned away from me and I didn’t know exactly what he was feeling. Whatever it was, he didn’t want me to see it playing out on his features.
“Mason,” I said softly. “You remembered I like Snoopy?”
From the back, I saw him shake his head no.
“You made me watch that movie three times, Darlin. God, if tonight had gone differently…” He sounded a little choked up. “They were going to be a Christmas gift.”
I listened as Mason cleared his throat and without turning around, he spoke again. “Enjoy your shower, Darlin. You won’t be in those pajamas for very long.”
A soft laugh came from out of my body. The door to the bathroom closed and I was alone. The seafoam green walls reminded me of Italy. Except this time, there was no door to keep my prince of darkness out. Mason would come through any door that he wanted to claim me.
Stepping into the glass shower, water rained down on me. The twenty inches of wavy hair became soaked, and heavy as I stood under the shower head. Tension melted out of my body and I scrubbed up with some of his manly smelling body wash.
Cedar, I thought as bubbles wound themselves down the drain.
Smelling of Mason and feeling squeaky clean, I exited the shower and grabbed a towel. Padding out into his bedroom, I found the Snoopy pajamas staring at me from the bed. Bright yellow pajamas with a little black and white dog had me smiling like an idiot. Dried off and feeling grateful that I’d survived what had to be the worst Halloween of my life, I dressed in my brand-new pajamas. The top grazed against my sensitive nipples, causing them to go hard.
I could hear voices coming from the living room. My sister had arrived at Mason’s loft.
She was standing in the middle of Mason’s large living room near the couch where we’d ...
Don’t think about how your first time with him was on the couch,I thought a blush creeping onto my face. Mason must have sensed my thought because he shot me a smirk.
“Bitch, a serial killer….” Rain didn’t wait for an answer because she had me enveloped in the tightest hug.
She stepped back and took me in.
“It’s been a wild night,” I agreed.
“We need to go to the fucking police,” Rain said looking at me and then at Mason and his brothers.
“No!” All three of them shouted in unison.
“What in the hell do y’all mean no?” She placed her hand on her hip, daring them to explain themselves.
Matteo went for it. “I am the police.”
Rain looked him up and down. “Then you should already know better. My sister could have been murdered like all those other women.”
