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“I’ll explain everything later. Just relax, sugar bear,” he tells her, evading the question expertly.
My head lolls, resting against the side of the van. The adrenaline flees my body, tremors racking my muscles as it does.
When we pull up to Redleg HQ a few minutes later, Mia is waiting in the lobby for us, with Valerie by her side.
Todd, the D-squad guard at the entrance, waves us over to the desk, trying to get us to sign-in our guests— Lettie, Savin, Tasha, and the other shitbag whose name isn’t worth remembering.
With a guttural snarl, Tomer blows Todd off. Knowing his place, the guard sits back down with his palms out apologetically.
It’s good to be the king.
Drawn to Mia like a magnet, I glide straight to her, barely strong enough to resist kissing her.
“Miss me, tiger?” I taunt with a smirk.
Nibbling at her lip, she bats her lashes at me. “And if I didn’t?”
“I guess I’d have to work harder next time. Leave you with my taste on your lips instead of the other way around.”
She sucks in a sharp gasp and sweeps her gaze around the room to make sure no one is watching.
They aren’t.
And I wouldn’t give a damn if they were.
Tomer carries Lettie toward the gym. I’d bet he’s getting her clothes from his locker.
Junior, Aaron, and Jonesy take Savin, Tasha, and fuck face Davidov to holding rooms down the hall. Shep and Kri are a few feet away from the guard’s desk and focused entirely on reuniting with Val.
Mia shuffles closer to me, removing all but an inch between us. “Did it work?”
“Did what work?”
“The little gift I left on your tongue before you left.”
“It did.”
She hovers her lips a centimeter from mine and simpers, “Good.”
With a sassy wink, she spins on her heel and sashays her sweet ass toward the elevator.
This woman will be the death of me.
We hold the elevator for the rest of the team. Tomer and Lettie file in first. As I suspected, she’s wearing a pair of his baggy sweatpants. The other guys enter next, having secured the Russians. We need to discuss what to do with them when we get upstairs. Shep, Kri, and Val are the last to enter.
When we exit the elevator on the top floor a few moments later, Mia and I trail behind the team. She holds out my phone, passing it to me. “I kept an eye on her the whole time. Her friend came over and put her to bed, and she’s been asleep ever since. She’s perfectly fine.”
My Adam’s apple bobs with my forced swallow.
I trusted Mia with the most important person to me, and she came through. Even when she had a million other things to do and was running the conon her ownfor a huge rescue mission.
She didn’t let me down.
Suddenly, I don’t want to punish her.
I want to reward her.
Chapter27
