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Changing my mind, I deleted the search history and dropped it back onto the stool.
I didn’t care where she was. I didn’t care if she was dead or alive. I didn’t care why she never came back.
I wiped a palm over my face and shucked off my gym shorts in favor of the clothes I’d been wearing earlier, purging her from my thoughts.
I’d wait to shower until I got home. If I didn’t leave now, I’d get another message from Corv in fifteen minutes asking why the fuck I wasn’t back yet.
At least I knew that if some shit ever did go south, Corv would be the first one to figure out what went wrong and drag my ass out of trouble. We had about a thirty-minute window for answering our big bro before he came looking. And if you took more than thirty minutes to reply, you better hope your ass was dead because you’d never hear the end of it.
I may not have known what it was like most of my life to have family. To know that multiple people had my back no matter what. But at least I did now.
I took the back roads home, sticking to the routes I knew AJ sometimes liked to run, hoping to catch a glimpse of her. No luck.
One of Diesel’s cars, the nondescript navy-blue Impala was parked up near the front door, and I drove around it, parking along the side of the Crow’s Nest. They’d been doing some recon work, then. Otherwise Corv would’ve taken the Camaro.
The smell of roasting chicken greeted me when I entered, and I inhaled deeply, scenting lemon and garlic.
Corvus was cooking, that was a good sign. He hadn’t cooked anything all week, forcing Rook and me to live off takeout and leftovers. If he was cooking, it meant they had a successful day.
Rook was just wandering to the kitchen from the living room as I entered, leaving the video game he’d been playing running on the load screen. It almost felt like a regular Friday as I snatched a bottle of water from the fridge and fell onto one of the stools at the kitchen counter.
“Hungry?” Corvus didn’t bother turning as he stirred sauce in a small pan atop the stove, pausing every few seconds to toss a pan of green beans.
“Fucking starved. How’d it go?”
“Good,” Corvus replied as Rook settled into the stool opposite me, pouring himself a fifth of whiskey from the bottle on the counter. He eyed me suspiciously as he swirled the liquid in the glass, his dark eyes narrowing.
“The MC’s source is legit. We’re good to go for the swap.”
I snorted, impressed. That didn’t take long. Now it would just be a matter of casing the meet point and then we’d be solid. More firepower. A solid payday. At least things were starting to look up, with that one thing at least.
“Any word from Dies? How’s the meet looking with the Aces?”
Corv gave a shrug. “He’s deep in it right now. Not sure what’s up. He’ll let us know.”
He played it off like it wasn’t a big deal, but I could feel the tension radiating off him from here.
“Shit, I forgot the bread in the car,” he said suddenly, flipping off the burners and tossing the dish towel on the counter as he stalked from the kitchen.
Rook leaned conspiratorially over the counter, and I lifted a brow at him. “What?”
He inhaled deeply and let out a sigh, his lips curving into a sultry grin. “What happened at school today? Anything exciting?”
I couldn’t school my face fast enough, the memory of AJ’s tight pussy wrapped around my cock came stampeding back to the forefront of my mind. I swallowed. “Not much.”
“Liar,” Rook said, calling me on my shit with a knowing look. “Leave you alone for one fucking day…” He shook his head, tossing back his whiskey. “How was she?”
Fucking Christ.
It was my turn to shake my head at him. No one gave the fucker enough credit. They saw him as the crazy one. All fists and fury, no brains. But my brother was the full package. He saw things other people didn’t. Saw them easily. Without even trying to. He’d always been that way.
I licked my lips, leaning back in my chair with a slow shaking inhale, conveying to him without the need for words just how goddamned good it was. Lips twitching into a suggestive grin.
He blew a breath out, shoulders twitching as a shudder rolled down his spine.
Corvus returned a second later, and I winced, hoping Rook would keep this between us, at least for now.
He tossed me a wink and poured another whiskey, sipping it this time, a distant look in his eyes.
