Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
“We get there, we can play chaser and the chased, and you can dive on me like that whenever you want.”
Oh God.
I needed someone to murder me again.
“Though, without the hit to the gonads at the end,” he went on. “I’ll need those.”
No, I didn’t need someone to murder me.
I was going to die of mortification.
For sure.
He got super close, and I was so deep in wallowing in my embarrassment, I didn’t even twitch.
He then dipped his head down super low so his face was in mine.
“Fucked up last night,” he whispered.
“What?” I whispered back, surprised at his words, and, let’s face it, more than a little affected by his nearness.
“Baby, those panties?”
My inner thighs quivered at his tone.
“Damn,” he half-whispered, half-groaned.
Something else quivered.
Cataclysmically.
In fact, I was relatively certain right there in the staff room, standing up and fully dressed, I had my first Javi-induced orgasm.
“Shoulda let you succeed in attacking me,” he concluded.
“Shut up, Javi.”
He grinned. It was another new one. Roguish and sultry.
Thus, my whole body quivered.
“Bro,” Jacob called from the door.
Javi looked over his shoulder then came back to me. “I’ll be waiting outside at seven.”
“Will you tell me what you learn from Kevin?” I requested hopefully.
He smiled at me like I was cute, bent closer to press his lips hard to mine, then he turned and was gone.
Raye and Luna huffed back in, and we all huddled around Willow.
“You okay?” Shanti asked her.
Willow was looking at no one while addressing everyone. “How could I be so stupid as to waste so much—?”
“Nunh-unh, nope,” Luna cut her off. “Sometimes our hearts lead us astray. We don’t kick ourselves in the asses for it. We just learn from it and move on.”
“Even I have to admit he’s a serious charmer when he wants to be,” Shanti said.
“Yeah,” I put in. “I knew I was messaging a skeeve, but some of the stuff he said while we were doing that, if I didn’t know what kind of guy he was, I’d totally fall for it.”
Willow latched on to that. “Really?”
I nodded fervently. “Totally.”
Willow seemed relieved.
“Let me guess, the boys confiscated our only lead,” Jessie deduced.
“They had him zip-tied and shoved in the back of a Denali before we could say boo,” Luna confirmed.
I wished I’d seen that.
Even so.
“Excuse me, I am so sorry,” I snapped. “But none of them took him down from a table dive.”
I mean, I didn’t show my panties, no matter how cute and flirty or how much Javi liked them (yeah, and another quiver), to everyone in my place of work for nothing!
And we’d gotten nothing from Kevin.
“That should have bought us at least ten more minutes of interrogation time,” I kept snapping.
“Agreed,” Raye snapped with me.
We all stood there, silently grousing at the strongarm antics of the Hottie Squad, until Tex ambled in.
“You could have stopped them,” Jessie accused Tex.
“Why would I do that?” Tex asked. “When they’ll be busy questioning him, at the same time doing shit that actually earns an invoice, and that means we’re free to break into that Kevin moron’s apartment and search it.”
Oo!
Great idea!
Raye immediately went into command mode.
“Tex, Luna and me are on that after work.” She looked to Willow. “You need to keep a low profile.”
“I’ll say,” Shanti mumbled.
Willow only nodded her agreement.
“We’ll meet at Angels Headquarters at noon tomorrow to do a debrief on anything we find and then head out for wings and beer with Shanti’s cousin. And maybe, after that, swing by Titus’s garage,” Raye finished.
She put a hand out in front of her.
Jessie put hers on top, I put mine in, Luna, Willow, Shanti (at this point, Tex blew out a breath and walked out of the staff room).
“One, two, three…” Raye said while bouncing our hands.
“Angels unite!” we all said while breaking.
And after that, we got back to work.
FOURTEEN
“WALKING ON SUNSHINE”
(KATRINA AND THE WAVES)
At seven oh three that night, I pulled myself up into the passenger side of Javi’s truck.
I barely got my behind in the seat when he ordered, “Mouth.”
Bossy.
Hot.
Weirdly sweet.
I turned to him to see he was turned to me so I could lean right into his demand.
I should have told him how bossy he was being, but I didn’t, since it was also hot and weirdly sweet.
So I just leaned right into his demand.
We didn’t make out, but there was a delicious touch of tongues before Javi broke the kiss and said softly, “Buckle up, lil’ mama. Let’s get home and eat. I’m fuckin’ starved.”
I did as told and Javi put the truck in gear.
“Good day?” I asked as he set us to rolling.
“Had a word with Cody,” he replied readily. “He feels shit he screwed the pooch with lookin’ after you. He promised to get his head in the game.”
“That’s good,” I said. “Anything from Kevin?”
“Babe.”
He said no more.