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Four
CONOR
Isense Shane’s irritation with me as we walk through the corridors of our nightclub. I know he expected me to back him up earlier when the twins had suggested bringing a hostage home was a good idea. My younger brothers are like excitable toddlers. To them, Jessie is a shiny new toy for them to play with. It’s not often we have visitors or guests to our home, and the idea of having a new person actually living with us is tantamount to a kid getting a puppy for Christmas. At least for Liam and Mikey.
I had some altogether different motives for agreeing to her request, though. I’ve been unfortunate enough to have more dealings with Nikolai Semenov and his family than my brothers. Notoriously vicious, paranoid and straight up crazy, anyone not related to him by blood, who could gain his trust and also have the backbone to work with him, obviously has something special about them.
I hadn’t even noticed her when we’d first walked into the room. The smoke from the twins blowing the door off had blurred my vision. Shane had gone straight to her, though. When I’d heard a woman’s voice, I’d assumed it was one of Nikolai’s whores. I didn’t particularly enjoy the thought of putting a bullet in her head, but she had seen us and we couldn’t afford any comeback. I’d been ready to kill her at Shane’s word. Then she crawled out from under that desk, dressed like a teenage boy, but unable to hide those incredible curves, and with long flaming red hair tied up in a ponytail. She squared up to Shane, all five foot four inches of her, and challenged him. Nobody spoke to Shane like that. Never. And especially not with a semi-automatic in their face.
I don’t believe in love at first sight or any of that shit, but this woman made my heart pound and my dick hard. She is a tiny fucking powerhouse and all I could think about was how she has bigger balls than most of the men I’d ever met. If she wants to work for us, then we should fucking let her.
Shane glances at his watch and frowns. “We need to make this quick. I don’t like having some stranger in our house and not being there.”
“Relax. The twins will keep an eye on her. I’m pretty sure she’s not exactly jumping for joy at the prospect of us kidnapping her.”
“We didn’t fucking kidnap her. She asked to come with us,” he snaps.
“Yeah. Because it was either that or die. What choice did she have, really?”
“Semantics,” he says with a dismissive wave of his hand. “We have no idea who she is or why she was working for Nikolai, or if we can trust her at all.”
“Well, like she said, if you’re not happy in two weeks, you can go back to your original plan,” I say with a shrug. I already know that Jessie Heaton is going to impress us. You don’t get to work that closely with one of the top Russian faces if you’re not shit hot at what you do.
“If she hasn’t murdered us all in our beds before then,” he snarls.
“What? She’s about one hundred and twenty pounds wet through. You’re really worried she can take you?” I laugh and he scowls at me.
“Just call Henry and get him here now. I want this dealing with, so I can keep an eye on our little hacker upstairs.”
I take my cell from my pocket and call our head bouncer to find out where he’s at and leave Shane pacing the corridors in annoyance.
An hour later, Shane and I walk into the penthouse apartment on the top floor of the building we own. We’ve just finished our meeting with our head bouncer, Henry, and his team, putting plans in place to deal with the recent trouble that’s been happening in our clubs.
Shane is still pissed. “Make sure the hacker is settled and she isn’t causing any trouble,” he snaps before stalking off to his office.
I shake my head and bite back a smile before heading down the hallway to the kitchen, where I find my two younger brothers.
“Where is our house guest?” I ask.
“She’s in her room. Lisa got here about ten minutes ago to check her over.”
I nod. “You asked her to do the full range of tests, yeah?”
“Yes,” Liam says with a grin and Mikey chuckles.
“What’s so funny?” I snap. Between Shane’s moodiness and the twins goofing around like teenagers whenever they get the chance, I sometimes feel like I’m the only sane one living in this place.
“Just you asking for the whole nine yards, that’s all. You planning on having some alone time with her, Bro?” Liam says, his grin widening further.
“Grow the fuck up,” I snarl as I stalk toward the refrigerator and take out a beer. The twin’s juvenile behavior doesn’t usually bother me at all. At twenty-six, they’re eight years younger than me and they’re both pretty funny most of the time. But today they’ve touched on a nerve. Because I have been thinking about Jessie Heaton, and what she would look like naked and tied to my bed since the moment I laid eyes on her. It’s taken me by complete surprise, because I haven’t looked at a woman like that for a long time.
“Hey, I’m not judging you, Con,” Liam goes on. “She is a fiery little pocket rocket and I totally see the attraction. I wouldn’t mind a piece of that ass for myself.”
“Hmm,” Mikey nods his agreement.
“Fuck you,” I say as I turn to face them. “Both of you.”
Mikey laughs out loud. “We’re just fucking with you, Conor.”
