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Cole put his elbows up and leaned back, sipping his own glass of iced tea. It exposed the top of his massive chest, and those broad, boulder-like shoulders. I found myself wanting him very badly. I’d missed him much more than I realized while he was gone, and my body was actually craving him in ways I couldn’t even believe.
This is nuts…
It really was. Between Evan and Joshua, I’d had more legendary sex this past week than any girl had a right to evenfantasizeabout, much less live out in real life.
Yes, but it’s nuts for other reasons too.
I had to admit that part as well. These men had killed to protect me. They’dburiedpeople. We’d been chased hundreds of miles and two states away, all because a cartel boss — an actual real-lifecartel boss— had an unresolved vendetta against my three ex-mercenary boyfriends.
And yet all I could think of was wrapping my legs around Cole’s waist, and sliding my arms over those hard, beautiful shoulders.
“Did we get what we needed at least?” Evan asked.
Beneath the bubbling waters, Joshua was visible only from the neck up. He nodded through the steam.
“We did. And then some.”
Evan tilted his head and raised an eyebrow.
“We got Ferrera’s location.”
“Incountry,” Cole added.
Evan surged upward, almost to a standing position. Water flew everywhere.
“He’shere?”
“Yes.”
“That would explain all the heat.”
Cole nodded. “He brought some of his own men, but not many. He left the good ones behind to run his operation. Right now things are still precarious for him. He’s had to rebuild everything from the ground up, with most of his original infrastructure already destroyed.”
“Thanks to you guys,” I jumped in. “Right?”
Cole looked at me approvingly, but also in a way that told me he missed me in the same ways I missed him.
“Yes,” he agreed. “Thanks to us.”
It felt good being included — trusted within their tight inner circle. I suppose to some degree I had to be, because I was in the thick of it with them. But I could tell now the guys weren’t holding back. They weren’t keeping anything from me, like they might’ve been before.
In this exact moment, I’d never felt closer to them.
“So yeah,” Joshua continued, “Ferrera’s best men are still at home. That’s why he’s been hiring local, and sending amateurs. When you’re a predator in the pond, there’s always a bigger fish waiting to swallow you. Coming here was risky enough. He couldn’t gamble on his operation being swallowed while he was away.”
“Whydid he come, though?” I asked abruptly. “I mean I know he’s got a vendetta against you and all that. But why now, after all this time?”
The guys regarded me a little strangely, as if they hadn’t considered the question from this angle before.
“Why not continue rebuilding, and come later on when it’s a much surer bet?”
Evan and Joshua glanced at each other. Cole however, was looking at me. His expression was different now, and somewhat strange. He caught me staring and turned away, shaking his head dismissively.
“All that matters is hedidcome,” Cole said plainly. “He’s here now. And we know exactly where, too.”
Evan sank beneath the swirling water for a moment, re-emerging with his hair slicked back. “So the guy talked?”
Joshua and Cole nodded. “He sang like a bird.”
