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Conor glances at his watch. “You’re stopping work before ten p.m?” he says as he stands too.
“When there’s a horny redhead waiting for me in my bed, I am, yeah.”
“I never thought I’d see the day,” Conor laughs.
“I’ve been thinking about what you said, too. I’m going to ask Jessie if she wants to get more involved in the business. I could use some help with the tech side of things.”
Conor places a hand on the back of my neck. “So, she’s really one of us now, then?”
I stare at him as he looks at me hopefully. “I suppose so,” I nod.
“About fucking time, bro,” he smiles at me.
I smile back. I suppose it is about time. Time to make Jessie Romanov a Ryan.
Chapter
Forty-Seven
JESSIE
As I sit at the large table in the dining room that we rarely use, I look around at Liam, Mikey and Conor as we all wait for Shane.
“Any idea why he’s called this meeting?” Liam asks me.
“Me? None at all.” I shake my head. “I thought one of you might?” Shane spent the night with me, but he got up early this morning, although he at least kissed me this time before he snuck out of bed.
“Not a clue,” Conor frowns.
The sound of the door opening makes us all look up. Shane strides into the room with a serious expression on his face. I share a quick side glance with his brothers and wonder which one of us is in trouble now.
“What’s going on, bro?” Mikey asks as Shane sits down at the table.
He rubs a hand over his jaw and frowns, and then he looks at me. “Jessie here has decided that she’d like to stay. Isn’t that right?”
“Yes,” I swallow as I glance around the room nervously.
“Oh, I didn’t realize we were doing this now?” Liam says as he grins at me and Conor and Mikey mumble as though they know what this is too.
“Doing what?” I look between all four of them.
Shane reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a slip of paper before passing it to me. It has an eight-digit number on it. “That’s the passcode to access the alarm system so that you can add your fingerprint. You can come and go as you please, just like you asked.”
I reach out and take the paper, closing my hand over it and holding it tightly. “Thank you. This means a lot to me.”
Shane nods as his eyes meet mine. My heart flutters in my chest as he makes no attempt to look away.
“You do know Jessie can override that system anyway,” Liam says with a flash of his eyebrows.
“Yes. But now she won’t have to,” Shane snaps and I smile at him.
“Is that why you called us here?” I ask.
“Partly,” Shane pushes his chair back and stands up. “But also, because if we’re going to make this a permanent arrangement, I think we need some ground rules, don’t you, Jessie?” He holds out his hand to me and I take it.
I swallow hard as he pulls me up from my chair. “I guess so.”
“Any that you’d like to start us off with?” he asks in that low gravelly growl that makes my insides turn to warm liquid.
