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But no matter the good he did now or how straight-and-narrow he lived his life, he couldn’t get away from what he’d done before.
Sleeplessness had become the norm. He was used to running on hardly any sleep, used to not remembering what it was like to sleep well and wake rested.
His phone buzzed and he lifted it from where it was next to him on the large bed.
The brightness was blinding, and he blinked rapidly as he swiped down to lower the intensity. When it wasn’t trying to sear into his brain anymore, he read the text.
You up?
It was his fellow security team member and close friend, Gavin, who also worked for the ambush’s construction company like Romeo.
Yeah. What’s up?
I’m working security. I figured you were up. Wanna run the territory with me?
He sighed and shifted his gaze to the time at the top of the screen. It was almost two a.m. on Saturday morning. He didn’t have to work for the next two days. Of all the days he liked trying to sleep in, weekends were the ones he was most interested in attempting it.
Not that his brain would turn off the streaming content of his past misdeeds.
Sure. Give me ten.
Maybe he could tire out his tiger and get some sleep afterward.
He climbed from the bed and grabbed his cell, trudging through the house to the sliding back door, where he kept his shoes on a mat. He flipped on the rear light and startled at seeing Gavin waiting there.
Romeo opened the door. “I thought I was meeting you at the guard station.”
The ambush had guard stations, small buildings where team members met up periodically during their shifts, that encompassed the entire territory.
“I was on patrol in the area. I texted Tahlon since he’s supervising the overnight shift and told him you and I were going to run our shifts.”
“Cool.”
Romeo stepped onto the patio and closed the door. He put his phone on the small glass table beside a comfortable slingback outdoor chair and hooked his thumbs in his boxer briefs.
He sighed as he stripped.
“What’s up your butt?” Gavin asked.
“Stressed.”
“About what?”
“Everything.”
“You definitely need a run. And it probably doesn’t help that you can’t sleep so you can’t recharge either. Are you worried about security for the party tonight?”
Midas and his new mate Maya were having their joining ceremony after sunset that evening. The couple hadn’t been together very long, but they’d been through the wringer when it came to drama and terror in the form of an anti-shifter group called Humans Against Shifters, who’d recently come to Cleveland and decided to focus their attention on the ambush.
Kidnapping, bombs, not to mention their own bullshit histories that caused them trouble from the get-go.
They’d survived and were planning their joining ceremony, which included marriage vows. Since Midas normally would oversee the joining and wedding ceremonies but couldn’t perform them on himself, one of the elders had stepped up and gotten ordained online in order to handle that portion of the ceremony himself.
All the local shifter leaders had been invited, from the bear alphas to the dragon king and queen. The master and mistress of the vampire coven and all four wiccan Corners had been invited too.
It would be an epic party.
Not that Romeo would relax. He had to be alert at all times and keep the king and queen safe.
