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“They were in foster care together,” Raptor said softly.
“With Richard Blake?” I guessed.
“How the fuck did you know that?” Raptor turned a hard glare to me.
“Lucky guess.” I shrugged and turned to look at Cookie, who was looking at Raptor, concern etched in his handsome face.
“Ev,” Cookie whispered. “How’s Brian?”
“He’s a mess,” Raptor answered with a heavy sigh. “After the FBI and the NSA were done questioning him, he took off for BIH to talk to Blake.”
“Do they think Blake is connected to this now?” I asked.
“Nope,” Raptor snapped. “No one does. His system is clean. And we can’t find any benefit to him or his company, so it makes no sense that he’d be involved in any way.”
“Pony thinks he is,” Cookie said. “He’s thought it since the minute he walked into the Sit Room.”
“Why?” Raptor asked, narrowing his gaze at me.
“I don’t know,” I admitted. “Just one of those things, you know? He has the means, the access, definitely the knowledge. Now he’s connected to the fuel truck driver. It’s weird, man.”
“It is weird,” Raptor agreed as the car came to a stop in the White House cul de sac. “So let’s go talk about it before Scout gets back and shoots the idea down.”
“I’ve got to run to the residence and get a shirt from Merlin’s room first,” Cookie insisted. “Pony, why don’t you come up with me?”
“Gotta finish whatever I interrupted?” Raptor asked, a smirk playing at his lips.
“Fuck off,” Cookie told him.
“No time for that,” Raptor said firmly. “Get your assess down to the Sit Room immediately.”
“Yes, sir,” I said, nodding before turning to follow Cookie toward the White House residence.
I honestly wasn’t sure why Seamus wanted me to go with him. I highly doubted he was looking for a quicky, especially with the squad waiting for us. But maybe I could still snag that kiss we’d been cheated out of.
Chapter Nine
~Seamus~
“Look,” I said once we were in Merlin’s room and had closed the door. “If you were just fucking around with me at the hotel—”
I’d had every intention of letting Pony out of whatever it was he thought he’d been doing before Raptor showed up, but before I could finish the sentence, he’d turned and shoved me against the wall.
“Cookie,” he whispered, before leaning forward to drag his tongue up my throat. “I haven’t even begun to fuck around with you yet.”
He slid his hands over my chest and up to my shoulders before dragging his jacket off my body. Then he stepped back and folded it over his arm, his eyes gleaming as he looked at me.
“You better get a shirt on, the boys are waiting.”
“I could punch you right now,” I complained. “You’re really going to make me go down there sporting a semi?”
“Only a semi?” he teased, clicking his tongue in disappointment. “I could make it worse—”
“You’ve done enough,” I snapped, shoving him as I walked past him toward Merlin’s dresser. “For the record though, you aren’t just messing with me?”
I opened a couple of drawers before finally finding the t-shirts and pulled one over my head. When I turned around, I was surprised to find Pony standing right in front of me.
“Seamus,” he said, his hands sliding down my forearms before he thread our fingers together. “Stay with me tonight, and I’ll show you how fucking serious I am.”
