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Fuck.
“You happen to have a loo around here?”
Brick pointed to a door in the corner.
While she got herself sorted in the bathroom, Brick tried to reel his mind back in from all the directions it was running.
First and foremost being how in the hell Europe’s most notorious thief looked like some kind of faerie that should be dancing around ferns and mushrooms.
She emerged from the toilet with blond hair swirling around her shoulders and blue eyes sparkling.
“Surprise!” she said with a cheeky grin. Then she crossed the room and extended her hand. “I’m Margo.”
Brick took her slim hand in his massive one, “I kinda got that.”
“And you’re Brick,” she went on, ignoring his lack of enthusiasm. “Which is a fabulous nickname. You’ll have to tell me that story sometime.”
“Only if you tell me how you got into fencing. And explain to me how the hell you know Talon.”
“It’s a long story,” Margo shrugged.
“That’s the same thing he says,” Brick muttered.
“Really?” Margo laughed. “Well, great minds do think alike.”
Brick finally pulled his shit together enough for coherent conversation. “First questions, why are you here, does anyone else know, and were you followed?”
Margo ticked off on her fingers, “Here because the heat was getting extreme back home, no, and I took serious precautions not to be. Hence the crate.”
“Talon doesn’t know?”
“Nope. I told you. That’s it.”
Brick nodded as that knowledge settled in his chest, and a warmth he hadn’t experienced in a long time spread from there.
“I guess you’re hungry,” Brick said.
“Starved,” Margo agreed.
“Let’s go,” Brick said, starting for the door.
“Where are you taking me?” Margo asked, frowning.
“Out to breakfast or to the compound and you can eat there. Your choice,” Brick answered.
Margo’s expression cleared like sunshine breaking out from behind clouds and her smile lit up the whole room, “I’d love to go to breakfast with you.”
“You down to ride?”
Margo’s smile melted into a mischievous grin, “I’m definitely down for that.”
Brick stopped on the metal stoop outside his office and locked up behind them.
They started down the steps together, and Brick noticed that she didn’t even reach his shoulder. He also tried to mentally establish her age and then wanted to kick his own ass for wondering.
Hands off the pretty thief.
And then he straddled his Harley, and she straddled behind him, and Brick decided that every good intention he’d had where the pretty thief was concerned could fuck right off.
