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I looked down and felt my face heat. My shirt was in fact inside out. That was when I realized I was missing something else. Underwear. They were somewhere on Reaper’s living room floor. I jabbed a finger at Adrienne. “Don’t talk with your mouth full, you vulgarian.”
The three of them fell into each other, laughing and high-fiving.
“Jerks. All of you. I’m going to bed.”
“Wait. Come back. We want details,” Jessen called out as I climbed the stairs.
“How big was his dick?” Adrienne shouted before dissolving into laughter.
“I need new, less nosy friends.” I muttered as I hit the top of the stairs.
“We heard that,” Chris yelled. “You’ll never escape us.”
Rolling my eyes, I stomped into the guest bedroom and changed into a T-shirt and sweatpants. I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
* * *
“Everyone understand the plan?” Betty asked, sitting back in her chair. We all nodded.
“Good. Once we bury Hell’s Spawn so deep they can’t find their way back, I’ll let Redemption know.” She tapped her fingers against the table. “Nice idea to take out the leader. He wasn’t the brightest. A real vindictive piece of work.”
I groaned. “It wasn’t on purpose.”
“Right. Right. Had to protect your man. We get it.” Tyler’s lips ticked up at the edges.
“He is notmy man. Don’t act like you wouldn’t have taken the shots.” I wanted to rage and was proud of how evenly I spoke. “Can we get over the minor slip in judgment? It was the adrenaline.”
I’d tried to deny that anything happened between Reaper and me. They’d laughed at me. It infuriated me that I couldn’t get away with a single tiny lie with them. Okay, that’s not true. But in this case, I wish they’d taken what I said at face value.
“Right, yeah. Of course, we’d never let one of us get hurt. Except none of us followed our childhood crush into the woods and proceeded to save him,” Chris taunted me.
“You still never answered my question. How big was his dick? Guy’s a giant. Promise of the premise and all that.” Adrienne waggled her eyebrows, and I briefly considered shaving them off in her sleep but nixed the idea. Too simple for the Queen of Pranks. I still hadn’t gotten her back from the office chair debacle three weeks ago.
Betty cleared her throat, and the rest of us snapped to attention. “You all have your assignments. Make sure that every man who wears the Hell’s Spawn logo knows it was us. Tear them down so they’ll never rebuild again.” She eyed each of us. “When you get back, we’ll deal with whatever shit Corven put into play.”
Yippy. Couldn’t wait to deal with the husbands.
ChapterEighteen
PEYTON
It had beenthirty-nine hours since I speed-walked away from Reaper. No running involved, despite what Adrienne had to say about it. I felt like that was an important distinction.
I wasn’t nervous. Okay, maybe I was a tiny bit apprehensive about seeing him. Whatever.
It was easy to pretend it had never happened. Until I closed my eyes, and the events of that night started playing like an X-rated movie in my mind. Torture was the best way to describe what my brain was putting me through.
An elbow to my ribs brought me back to our current situation. We were following a prospect into Chapel, where every member of Redemption was waiting for us.
Was I worried about how they might respond to what we’d done? A little. But at the end of the day, it was our screwup—fine,myscrewup that had forced our hand. That meant we’d needed to deal with Hell’s Spawn ourselves.
We hadn’t merely dismantled them, we’d pulverized them. And it was so much easier than it should have been.
Turned out that thirty-nine hours wasn’t nearly long enough for my body to forget the pleasure he’d harnessed with tongue, teeth, hands, and cock. The second I entered the Chapel, my body lit up like a Christmas tree.
His gaze was like a caress, following me as I walked into the room and lined up next to my team. He didn’t bother to hide his concern, but it was quickly snuffed out by anger. Good. Anger I could deal with. Compassion? Not so much.
I so badly wanted to glare back because this was all his fault anyway, but this wasn’t the time or place to handle our personal business.
