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His eyes smoldered down at her. “You are sexy as hell, baby.”
Her belly tightened on the praise. “You might be the perfect man.”
He flashed a grin.
“And this was the perfect rebound. I didn’t expect to be here, but…woohoo! Remind me to text Sarah!”
ChapterThree
Declan stepped into the WEST Protection office to a crowd of teammates and a sea of white Stetsons. Until now, he hadn’t been to the office for a big meeting. The place was more crowded than usual.
He closed the door behind him and raked his fingers through his hair as he got his bearings. People stood in clumps, talking shop. Corrine and a couple female teammates were clustered together deep in conversation while one of the women, wife to Landon, rubbed her pregnant belly.
He had a head for remembering names, but the WEST family was big and growing by the day. It would take him more than a week on the job to figure out everyone’s roles and memorize names.
As he shouldered his way through the office, guys gave him nods of greeting. When he reached the back of the room, he positioned himself with the wall at his back.
“There’s the man of the month. Talk about saving the day!”
He didn’t realize that someone was addressing him until one of his teammates pulled away from the group he stood with and stepped up to him.
Silas Shanie came at him with a broad grin as he clapped Declan on the shoulder. He returned the smile even though he wasn’t up for hearing more praise about doing his damn job.
“Great work, rookie.”
“Thanks.” He compressed his molars. Some might like this sort of thing, but he wasn’t accustomed to praise.
Neither was the beautiful woman he’d hooked up with in that garden. When he’d told her how amazing she was, he’d seen the surprise glowing plain on her face.
From a few feet away, Noah turned and looked at him. He nudged Josiah, who smirked.
Great—they were probably discussing the size of his head again.
Before they could pounce on him, Corrine broke away from the other ladies and strode to the door of the conference room. Craning her neck to see over all the men in the room who were taller than she was, she let out a shrill whistle that stopped all talk.
“The meeting’s about to begin. Head into the conference room, everyone.”
Since he stood closest to the door—and he was eager to escape more praise about that op the previous week—he entered first. Everyone had most likely claimed their favorite seats, but he disregarded such nonsense and took a chair toward the middle of the table. Everyone filled in around him.
Directly across from him, Boone caught his eye. “So, rookie. About last night.”
“What about it?” He arched a brow.
“You left the party pretty quick.”
He grunted.
“Saw you talkin’ to that pretty brunette. Come to think of it, I didn’t see her around the party very long either.”
Declan leveled his gaze on him but said nothing in reply.
Noah jumped on the bandwagon. “I saw Declan head outside with said brunette.”
“They disappeared in the garden. Lots of good places to hide out there.” Josiah smirked.
Boone nodded. “I couldn’t help but notice that your hair was messed up and it was freezing outside but you had a bead of sweat on your forehead.”
“I know I’m good-looking, but I didn’t think you’d be looking at me so hard, Boone,” he cracked back. Several guys laughed.
