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“Yes.” I blink at him as I wipe the blood dripping into my eye.
“Good. Now, don’t tell your brothers this, but you’re my favorite,” he pulls me closer, until he almost has me in a headlock, and kisses the top of my head.
I laugh because I know that’s not true. He doesn’t have favorites. I wish I could tell him how much I admire and respect him. How he's more like a father than a brother to me. But, I can’t find the words.
“Come on. We need to go to the club and get cleaned up before we go home, because Jessie will have you all wrapped in cotton wool if she sees the state of us all.”
“Well, I wouldn’t mind a little Jessie TLC,” I smirk at him.
“I bet you wouldn’t,” he grins back before we walk out of the bar, leaving the room full of dead bodies behind us.
Chapter
Thirty-One
JESSIE
Iswitch off the laptop and lean back against the chair with a sigh. Seeing that document on the computer at the bar yesterday has made me remember what I’m supposed to be doing with my life. I’ve been so distracted by the Ryan brothers – distracted being happy for a change, that it was easy to forget that I’m supposed to be tracking down the Wolf.
That day when I finally escaped, I was convinced that I’d killed him. I stuck that wooden hairbrush handle right into his throat. I have never seen so much blood. But when I went back the next day to torch the place, he was gone. So, I ran, and I kept on running until I reached civilization two days later.
The Wolf didn’t have a car, or I would have stolen it. So, where the hell did he go to? Maybe he is dead after all?
But maybe he’s not. And until I know for sure, I’ll never be able to rest.
The boys have been gone all day and I’ve kept myself distracted with some more work and a workout in the gym. I showered and put on one of Liam’s huge baseball shirts. The soft cotton feels good against my skin, and it’s so big that I can wrap my whole body in it when I’m sitting on the sofa. Walking into the kitchen, I look in the refrigerator for something for dinner. I wonder if the boys will be hungry when they get back or whether they will have eaten while they were out.
The sound of raised voices makes my heart skip a beat as I realize they’re home. I had thought I’d enjoy some time to myself, but I’ve missed them.
A few seconds later, they walk into the kitchen carrying pizza boxes and the delicious aroma makes my stomach growl. Liam and Mikey reach me first. Putting the takeout onto the counter, they press me into a hot man and Jessie sandwich as Mikey kisses me, while Liam pulls my hair aside and rubs his nose along my neck. “We’ve missed you, baby,” he breathes.
When the twins let me go, lured away by the smell of the tempting food, Conor pulls me into his arms, lifting me onto the kitchen counter and kissing me deeply. I wrap my legs around his waist. “Come take a shower with me, Angel,” he groans. “I need inside you.”
“Sorry, Con. I need Hacker to check out that security system for me. She’s coming with me,” Shane says as he reaches us and places a hand on Conor’s shoulder.
“As soon as you’re done, then,” Conor groans as he brushes my hair back from my face.
“She’ll still be with me,” Shane says matter-of-factly and my insides contract at the thought. He said just one night, didn’t he?
Conor turns to him with a scowl. “I had to listen to the two of you fucking the whole of last night.”
“And I’ve listened to the four of you for the past four weeks. It’s still my turn,” he says with a wink as he reaches for my hand and pulls me from the counter, picking up a pizza box with the other. “But, first, we have work to do.”
I kiss Conor softly before following Shane into his office. He sits at his desk and fires up his computer while I take the pizza from him and open up the box. My stomach growls again as soon as the aroma of pepperoni hits me, and I take a slice.
He holds out his hand to me. “I need you to hack into the security system at Balthazar’s. I want you to wipe any footage from today.”
I nod as I take a bite. He doesn’t usually let me use his computer. “Sure. Shouldn’t take me long,” I say as I take a step toward him. I wait for him to stand up and let me sit down so I can get to work, but he doesn’t move, and I realize he is my seat. I sit on his lap and open up the page I need.
He pulls my hair back and kisses my neck and I wriggle on his lap. “This would go a hell of a lot quicker if you weren’t distracting me,” I say with a grin.
“Fine,” he says as his hands drop to my lap. “But, you’re sexy when you work.”
“So are you,” I reply as I watch the footage of him and his brothers wiping out the entire room.
“You don’t have to watch it all, Hacker,” he says as his hand slides between my thighs and his fingers edge dangerously close to my panties. “Just wipe it.”
“Okay. I can fast forward, but I need to make sure I wipe it all.”
