From Sanctum with Love (Masters and Mercenaries #10) - Lexi Blake Page 0,167

Unless that’s another gun.”

Nope. It was his dick. Damn thing only worked around her anymore, and he kind of resented her for it. “I think I’ll wait until the police get here,” he lied, wanting her to panic. Six months had gone by and this was how she renewed their acquaintance? Had she been trying to show him what a dumb fuck country boy he was? How much smarter she was? “You stay right where you are.”

“Case, I came here for you. I came straight to you because you know they’ll both leave us out. We can do all the work, but big brothers will leave us behind when it comes time. We have to stick together,” she said.

He could feel how soft she was. The round curve of her ass rubbed against him as she squirmed in his arms. His left hand was right under those nicely shaped breasts of hers. All it would take was an inch upward and he could cup one. He could haul her back to his bedroom. She’d been the one to break in. She’d poked the bear, and the bear could give it to her hard and then maybe, maybe he could stop dreaming about her at night. Maybe he could work up the will to find another woman, a woman who really made sense for him.

He took a step back because she was already fucking with his head. Two minutes of Mia and he was thinking like a caveman, tossing out all reason. He couldn’t handle her. He flipped on the light because the dark was far too intimate for this discussion. “If this is something about the op my brother is running with yours, then talk to Ian. I don’t have anything to do with that.”

She was obviously flustered when she turned around. Her cheeks were flushed, her hair mussed as though she’d just gotten out of bed. Or been manhandled for intruding. Her eyes went straight to his towel. “Really? You walk around like that?”

Naturally he had a hard-on. There was zero chance he was letting her know it was for her. “Darlin’, I just got off the phone with my girlfriend. She’s good at getting me revved up, so to speak.”

Her eyes flared briefly, but that stubborn look he’d come to know so well settled over her features. “I didn’t come here to talk about your love life. I came here because we need to work together.”

“So you decided to break in?”

“I didn’t know when you would be back. And I kind of thought it would prove to you that I can be a good partner. I have skills, too. I thought if I was waiting here for you when you got back from whatever you were doing, maybe you would take me seriously for once.”

She had no idea how he took her. He took her in his dreams about once a night. Took her hard and woke up sweating. “Oh, I take you seriously. You seriously annoy me and now you can leave.”

She stood her ground. He would give her that. She had a set of balls on her like no one he knew. “I’m not going until you’ve listened to me. Drew told me to stay out of this and I have for the most part, but I never stopped looking. I never stopped trying to find him.”

Case went still again, his every instinct on high alert as Mia pulled a folder out of her massive bag. “Who?”

“Theo.” Mia handed him a grainy printout. “I found Theo and we’re going to get him back together.”

Case stared down at the photo. It showed two men, both holding AK-47s. One still had a mask over his face, but the other had slid it up so his features could be seen. His brother was looking up at a security camera.

What had he told Kai only hours before? His brother would find a way. His brother would let them know he was out there.

This was Theo’s way of saying it’s time. Come get me, brother.

“Where?” He couldn’t seem to form whole sentences.

Mia seemed to understand. “It’s from a bank heist in Colombia.”

Then that was where he would start.

Case, Mia, and the entire McKay-Taggart crew will return in Dominance Never Dies.

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