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Mission accomplished.
I pass Leo perched at the clean dining room table with his laptop in his face and his phone stuck between that.
“No, Anna.” He grumbles into the phone to our nightmare PR rep. “The boys were tucked in safe last night. Get the shit off the web.”
Consider my curiosity peaked …
I stop in my tracks and walk backwards until I see the illuminated screen open in front of Leo.
“I don’t care, Anna!” Leo states a little more aggressively this time as the contents of the laptop begin to register in my brain. “Release a fucking statement and get this shit under wraps.”
Frozen on the screen is a guy clad in the traditional black shirt and slacks ensemble that our security team wears, lounging back in a hotel chair with a chick kneeling between his knees.
I catch fisted long black hair and my twin’s signature As Above duffle he made when we first went big sitting on the bed next to them.
Except neither participant in the video is my fucking brother.
“What the fuck, Leo.” I see red as my mind runs over a million possibilities of what I’m actually looking at. None of which I am ok with.
He snaps the laptop shut and spins in his chair to face my clenching fists and burning gaze.
Is my brother in the fucking video?
Does he even know someone was in his room?
“I’m taking care of it, Rex.” Concern laces Leo’s tone when he addresses me, suggesting that he has no idea how in the fuck he’s going to fix this.
Recognition sinks like a boulder in my gut.
“He better not still be here.” My growl is so low, so calm, it doesn’t even feel like it came from my body but the threat is more potent than if I’d screamed it. My feet are moving to find my twin before Leo can answer the question.
“Ian took him off-site. He’s already gone.” He pulls me to a stop with a hand on my shoulder just as I cross the threshold to Ma’s living room.
The room where I know Mac is.
“I want him gone. Yesterday.” I demand when I catch sight of my normally calm and collected brother balled up on the couch with new stress lines marring his fucking face.
“Mac doesn’t know yet, Rex. We still have to investigate.” Leo’s tone is quieter, calmer than he should be but that’s probably because he doesn’t know the true extent of the damage this guy is doing to my brother.
“He doesn’t need to know. He’s hurt enough. Just fucking look at him.” I swing my burning sights on Leo and cement fate in my next words. “He isn’t good enough for As Above. He better not make a return.”
“Shit,” Leo’s hand goes through his blonde hair. “Fuck, alright.”
38
ARIA
We spent all afternoon at Rex’s mother’s house. It was calming once I got to know her a little bit, even better when she gave me access to knowing Rex and Mac a little better, too.
But sometime after the meal and the pictures, everything changed.
The aura around the guys became odd as if something was off, but no one wanted to talk about it.
Trust me, I asked.
Now, I watch Mac sulk in the passenger seat as Ian drives us to the next location.
Shit, I didn’t even ask where we were going.
