Total pages in book: 112
Estimated words: 113272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 566(@200wpm)___ 453(@250wpm)___ 378(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 113272 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 566(@200wpm)___ 453(@250wpm)___ 378(@300wpm)
Suddenly, she became aware of someone waving at her in her peripheral vision. Reaching over, she paused her video. Then she smiled as she saw Kellan.
“Hey, you’re home early.”
He frowned at her, crossing his arms over his chest. “Actually, I’m late. You just didn’t notice.”
“Oh, sorry.” She winced, realizing that she hadn’t seen him come in. That was so rude.
“You really do zone out when you work, don’t you?” Eli said.
“We’ll have to watch that,” Kellan said. “She could easily exhaust herself.”
“And forget to eat,” Eli added.
“Um, guys. I’m right here,” she said, waving her hand in the air.
“Yes, we know,” Kellan said.
“Do you need some help with cleaning up?” Eli asked. “We thought we’d go to Fet for dinner.”
Fet? Ooh, it looked really nice. She’d heard good things.
“I meant that you don’t need to talk about me when I’m right here. You can talk to me. And there’s not much to clean up.” She’d sort out the video footage for editing later and started cleaning. To her surprise, Kellan and Eli pitched in anyway.
She paused, staring at them.
“Something wrong?” Eli asked.
“I’m just not used to people helping me, I guess.”
“You’ll have to get used to it,” Kellan said.
“You didn’t kiss me hello,” she said to him suddenly.
He turned and she blushed. “I mean, um, if you want to, it would be nice if when I saw you, that you hugged or kissed me. I know I had the video going and stuff, I just thought I’d mention that.”
Eli had said to lay down the boundaries. But would Kellan want that? Was he annoyed at her?
She watched him carefully, but he just nodded and stepped forward, hugging her tight.
“Hello, Butterfly.” Leaning down, he kissed her lightly.
Since those orgasms, they hadn’t done much more than kiss. They had pushed the beds together and she slept in between them. Although Kellan didn’t sleep much, he was usually up and running before she woke.
“Hello,” she said huskily before pulling back and getting busy tidying up.
After they had finished and locked up, she turned to Kellan again.
“Did you have a good day?”
Kellan grunted. “It was mixed. The assholes that spread those images of you are still in jail but they’re coming up for parole. I’m just making sure that parole is very, very hard for them.”
“Wait. That’s what you were doing?” she asked, pausing.
“Not the entire day. That just took a few phone calls. Then I went to visit a couple of the local sheriffs to have a chat about anything they might have heard or seen regarding this new drug.”
“Anything?” Eli asked.
“Nothing,” Kellan replied grimly as they headed to Eli’s car. They’d decided to drive rather than walk because of her equipment. Plus, it was getting late.
“I should text Heath and make sure Horse is all right,” she said as Kellan held open the car door for her.
“I’ll do it,” Eli said.
She couldn’t see Kellan’s car anywhere. Maybe he’d dropped it off at the hotel and walked here.
Leaning in, he did up her seatbelt as Eli placed everything in the trunk.
Kellan tested her seatbelt and grunted, she was guessing in satisfaction.
Definitely crazy.
They all got in and Eli started driving.
“Jake rang. Deputy Doofus never turned up for work and no one has seen him,” Eli said.
Kellan hummed. “That’s interesting. I was going to look into him next.”
“Why?” she asked as they pulled up outside Fet.
“Because I didn’t like the way he treated you. So I was going to look for something to use to make sure he couldn’t do that to anyone else.”
“Oh.” While she didn’t like the idea of him seeking revenge for her . . . she also didn’t want Doofus doing the same thing to other women.
Women who likely didn’t have two hot, protective FBI agents taking care of them.
Kellan opened her door and she startled, she hadn’t even noticed him move.
“Are you all right?” he asked in concern.
“Sorry. Thinking.”
“You look tired,” Kellan stated. “We should go home and order room service.”
“No!” she cried. “Please don’t. I just . . . I’m sick of room service.”
The hotel had limited options. Most people ate at the two restaurants in town or the diner.
The sooner they got somewhere to live the better.
“I’m fine. Really.”
Kellan helped her out and then hovered close. Did he want something?
Finally, he held out his hand. “Hold.”
Oh. She shot Eli a look and noticed he was holding back a smile. But then she put her hand into Kellan’s. An immediate sense of safety hit her. These guys just seemed to have the ability to make her feel at ease.
“All right, but you’ll sleep in late,” Kellan bossed.
“Actually, I thought I would go for a run in the morning.”
“No,” Kellan said as they entered the restaurant.
“Why not? I won’t go with you and slow you down. I can go by myself.”