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More laughter.
“You got a dog and Bradley sent us up here because of an email? What the hell, Mav?” That was another male voice, so there were three of them. None of them sounded like they were selling something or planned to leave.
“Bradley is too efficient. He went through my inbox,” Maverick told them.
Oh. My. God. Even though I was naked, I started to sweat. Bradley was his assistant and he read his work emails. That meant–
“So?”
“So he… wait. What the hell are you doing here?” Maverick shouted at one of them.
“Me? I’m your brother, too. Clearly you need us here if you got a dog. Hey, Scout. Who’s a good boy?”
The third male voice that went from sarcastic to sweet. It seemed all three of them loved dogs.
“You work eighty hours a week in an operating room,” Maverick countered. “Since when do you have time off?”
“Since Silas called me,” countered the one who was obviously a doctor.
“Don’t look my way.” It sounded like the third brother and I pictured him holding his hands up in front of him. “You know it’s the off season. The boys want to head to Montana to see our fucked up brother? I’m in.”
No, there were four of them out there. From their banter, they were familiar with each other. I had to assume they were his brothers. The James brothers, the ones from the laptop photo Mallory drooled over.
“I got a dog. How is that fucked up?”
“Not the dog. He’s pretty cool. It’s the fact that your assistant thought you needed an intervention.”
“Where the fuck’s your shirt?” one of them asked.
“I was getting undressed when you rang the doorbell. Over and over,” Maverick countered and I felt my cheeks flame.
He hadn’t mentioned that he had a woman here, but why would he now? They were here because Maverick’s assistant read his work emails. Clearly, it was part of his job to maybe screen them for Maverick. Answer less important ones for him, delete unnecessary ones. Read some for crazy women trying to sexually harass him.
I turned and leaned against the wall while holding the sheet around my chest. Had the assistant read my email?
Of course he had. It was the biggest red flag for a CEO and clearly found it–me–a problem. Enough to call in the second-in-command at the company to look into it personally.
I closed my eyes.
This… thing wasn’t me and Maverick now. It wasn’t our little secret. He’d said he’d fix it and he had, by sending me his own sex quiz, but that had been when it was only the two of us involved. Obviously, mine wasn’t private any longer.
“Fine, you’re all here,” Maverick snapped. “Because Bradley does his job too well. You saw the email then.”
Maverick sounded grim, nothing like how he talked to me.
“Fuck, dude. That’s serious shit.”
I had no idea which brother spoke, but it didn’t matter, not when I heard a whistle of agreement from someone else.
They knew about the sex quiz! They’d read it. Thought it was serious shit. I thought the mortification last night was bad, but this was worse, which I thought wasn’t even possible.
I was naked.
In Maverick’s house.
Once they saw me, the brothers were going to find me and think I was a slut, or worse, a power hungry gold digger.
“It’s none of your fucking business,” Maverick growled.
