Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 97696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 488(@200wpm)___ 391(@250wpm)___ 326(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 97696 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 488(@200wpm)___ 391(@250wpm)___ 326(@300wpm)
That should probably scare us into heading in the opposite direction, since it was looking more and more like the people we once trusted were hip deep in this shit. But it was the man himself more so than what we’d found that had convinced us to take a chance. Having lived in the shadows ourselves for so long, we well understood the need for that kind of secrecy. And we’re not fools, we know when someone is on the safe list.
“We’ve gone over every inch of this place in the last couple days since we came back from Lyon’s and found nothing. We’ve got to get into the old man’s head. If he had something that hot to hide where would he keep it?” Logan popped the cap on his water bottle and took it to the head for a long draw.
“We know the place was bugged, but there were no eyes on it. Why if they thought he had something would they put ears but no eyes on him?” Connor prowled the room back and forth while Devon and Quinn booted up the old man’s computer.
“Was he dictating something maybe? There was no hacking device on his comps, no one was ghosting him so what exactly were they looking for? Unless; someone else was here. Who visited the old man before he died?” As much training as we have it’s not that easy putting a puzzle together when you’re missing half the fucking pieces.
“You’re thinking he was sharing information with someone and they were listening in? I want those bugs out of here.” We’d left them in to fuck with whoever was on the receiving end of that shit, but now that we were on their trail I saw no need for it. Whoever we were dealing with had to know that we were good enough to have found the devices by now unless we were dense. That only opened the door to more questions. Why hadn’t the old man suspected, or had he?
“There’s no way to know that since the CO was such a private person. Davey hadn’t seen anyone around except the locals. And we know if the old man was dealing with something he’d have taken steps to keep it contained. If there were any secret meetings between him and anyone they would’ve been done under cover of night.”
“That’s true Con unless he was handling it himself. We all know he had the habit of talking shit out loud to himself. What if whoever planted the bugs knew that? What if that was the reason for them all along?” It had always been a running joke among us that one of the men most trusted with world secrets couldn’t beat the habit of talking to himself. He’d once told us that he’d come up with his best strategies that way.
Lo nodded the okay for the bugs to be taken out and Zak and Ty headed up the stairs to take care of it. I looked out the window into the yard where our homes were, where our women were going about their not so normal day. It figures that I would find my forever in the middle of a shit storm. Nothing in life had ever come easy for me, why should this be any different?
We’d worked for it the seven of us, protected our country, even going above and beyond in our fervor to keep our borders safe. Was it too much to ask to be left the fuck alone to live what was left of our lives in peace?
My brothers had started dropping like flies the second we moved here, no, more like dominoes. Me, I hadn’t been expecting it for myself. I had long accepted that that shit wasn’t for me. I’d been sure that there wouldn’t be anyone out there who could fulfill the raging need I had inside, not for longer than a few encounters anyway.
But then she blew into my life out of nowhere, totally unexpected and turned everything on its head. I didn’t care what it took I knew from day one that I wanted her. She was the first woman who’d made me say ‘fuck it’, I don’t care if she can handle it or not, I will have her.
Because I’m only too aware of the rarity of what I am, I knew it would be selfish of me to ask anyone to sign on for the long haul. With her, I wasn’t giving her a choice I’d made it for her. It may not be fair, and add the fact that she was so young it seemed like a fucked up thing to do, but none of that mattered.
If it had only been my lust that she’d awakened I could’ve fucked her ten ways from Sunday and moved on already. But, there was so much more going on between us, even from the very beginning. The fact that I needed a little bit more out of my wife than my brothers did from theirs is the only reason I haven’t taken her to my bed as yet. Funny, it’s because I’m gonna make her my wife that I’ve had to hold off.
It wouldn’t be fair to her to take her before I showed her what she was getting into. The kind of life she could look forward to once she gave herself over to me completely.
Sometimes in the beginning I’d worried that she might not be strong enough, and that scared me, because I know she’s what I want no ifs ands or buts. But our relationship is not going to be like the others and it’s up to me to make sure that she can handle that.
My brothers have it easy. Their taking the plunge was a no brainer. Not that their relationships are any less than mine, far from it. It’s just that all men are not made the same and I’d be the first to admit that my predilections set me apart, and require a little extra something. Something that not all women are equipped to handle: especially not one so young.