Total pages in book: 26
Estimated words: 24615 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 123(@200wpm)___ 98(@250wpm)___ 82(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 24615 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 123(@200wpm)___ 98(@250wpm)___ 82(@300wpm)
That story was a lot sweeter than I expected…and it only made me fall harder for Grady.
7
DEVIANT
Ilooked at my phone for the second time in an hour, then set it back on the bar in the clubhouse lounge. I mentally sighed at how ridiculous I was acting. Alice had gone to lunch with some of the old ladies, and we had prospects trailing them. They reported back to us every hour, but I couldn’t stop checking my cell for some reason.
Maybe it would get better when she wore my property patch and ring. And a baby bump.
I wasn’t sure if she’d realized that we hadn’t once used protection, but I’d bring it up eventually. Hopefully, she was already knocked up.
“Deviant!”
I put down the beer I’d been nursing just as Viper stalked into the room, slamming the front door behind him. His expression was a mixture of worry and murderous rage.
My eyebrows shot up, and I came out from behind the bar.
“What’s up?” I had a pretty good idea that it involved the chick he was seeing. Only a woman could put that expression on a man’s face.
“Rhiannon is missing.”
“Fuck,” I muttered.
He’d already pivoted and was marching toward the hallway that led to the offices, and I quickly followed. When we reached Fox’s door, it was open, so he stepped inside.
Fox looked up at Viper and frowned. “What’s wrong?”
“Rhiannon. She was supposed to meet me at a jobsite this morning, and she didn’t show. She’s not answering her phone. GPS has been turned off.”
“Son of a bitch,” Fox muttered.
Maverick had walked in at the beginning of Viper’s explanation and immediately put his phone to his ear. I knew he was calling the guards we had on our women and ordering them to bring the girls here. I was grateful he’d thought about it so I could focus on the problem at hand.
“On it,” I told everyone before stalking out of the room and booking it straight for my office.
The first thing I did was get into Rhiannon’s phone and turn the GPS back on. It was about an hour away from town and wasn’t moving.
When I checked the location coordinates, I discovered it was a convenience store.
I put my phone on speaker and called Fox.
“Anything?” he asked.
“Got a location, but I’ll be honest, I don’t think she’s there. I think someone took her and dumped her phone.”
Viper swore a blue streak in the background, and a loud thump told me he’d probably punched a wall.
“For fuck’s sake, man. The last thing your woman needs is for you to break your fucking hand,” Maverick grunted.
“We’ll send a couple of guys to check it out. Just in case,” Fox informed us.
“I’ll keep looking,” I muttered, already distracted by ideas as my fingers flew over the keyboard.
I pulled up any cameras that might have caught something near her apartment, work, every traffic cam in town, and anywhere else I could think of.
While those images cycled through a facial recognition program, I dug into her boss at the floral shops. He seemed harmless, and I was about to move on when I considered it might be a customer. The men who’d gone to find her phone reported back, confirming my suspicions about it being dumped.
I was deep in my research, so I didn’t hear Alice’s soft greeting at first. But her scent wafted over to me, putting my cock on high alert.
Pushing on the ground with my toe, I spun my chair around and breathed a sigh of relief to see my woman standing before me, looking unharmed and concerned rather than scared.
“C’mere, gorgeous,” I demanded, holding out a hand.
She didn’t hesitate, which soothed me even more.
As soon as she was close enough, I snatched her wrist and gently tugged her into my lap. Then I kissed her deeply, reassuring myself that she was safe in my arms. We were both panting when I finally let her up for air.
She smiled sweetly. “That was quite a hello,” she whispered with pink cheeks.
I laughed and gave her a tight hug.
When she moved to get off my lap, I tightened my embrace, then settled her in my lap before turning back to my computer. “You stay right here, gorgeous.”
Alice giggled softly. “How are you going to type with me on your lap?”
“I’m just that good,” I said. Then I went back to work.
Eventually, I found what we were looking for and relayed the information to the prez. Once that was done, I shut down my computer and buried my face in the crook of Alice’s neck, nuzzling her silky hair and inhaling deeply.
“I’d lose my fucking shit if anything happened to you,” I rasped.
Alice shivered, and I groaned when she wiggled in my lap, running her juicy ass over my hard-on.
“I guess I’ll have to get used to worrying about you.” She sighed.