mouth.
I pressed her to me by her lower back, wanting to make a show for Fox but finding I didn’t give a damn about him as I just took a kiss from my girl and tasted her desire for me on her tongue. It soothed the thrashing creature in my chest which was afraid of her judgement and as our lips parted and I stared into her eyes, I found nothing there but the same hunger for me she’d had the last time I’d seen her. Thank fuck for that.
“Dammit, beautiful,” I sighed. “I think you just swallowed my heart.”
She chuckled, stepping back and rubbing her stomach. “Is that what that was? Tasted like a peach.”
I glanced over at Foxy, surprised he hadn’t tried to kill me for that move, but I found JJ had a tight hold of his arm and Fox’s teeth were bared like he was in pain.
“You should try doing some yoga, Foxy boy,” I said with a taunting smile. “It might help with the constipation you’re clearly struggling with.”
He jerked his arm out of JJ’s grip, his eyes darkening several shades as he strode towards me. Rogue automatically put herself between us and I noticed she had her own gun stashed in the back of her denim shorts. It was shit hot and I decided I wanted to get her a gun myself, one she could tuck back there between her ass cheeks any time she liked and remember who put it there.
“This is a one night only thing,” Fox said. “So I don’t want any bullshit from you. We’re going in there for Miss Mabel and when we’re out, we can go our separate ways again.”
I thought on that, rocking my head from side to side. “Nah, actually this is our operation. I don’t recall you getting an invite. So I say me, Rogue and Johnny James go and fetch her and you can sit here on a rock like an old, angry toad waiting for a rainstorm.”
Fox took a step toward me with a growl. “You son of a-”
“Bitch?” I finished for him as Rogue planted a hand against his chest to stop him coming at me. “Maybe. Or maybe she was a sweet little mermaid. No one knows. I could see myself with a seashell bra and a tail though, couldn’t you?”
“This isn’t helping Mabel,” JJ stepped in. “Let’s just get moving.”
“I’ll move when he stops looking at me like he’s gonna put a bullet in my head the second I turn my back on him,” I said with a sneer, jerking my chin at Fox.
“Unlike you, Maverick, I never wake up planning to kill my own brother,” Fox said with an echo of the long lost love between us.
“Not until I fucked Rogue anyway,” I mocked and Rogue cursed, slapping my chest hard.
“Would you both just stop it?” she demanded as Fox bristled, his shoulders heaving like a bull about to charge, and I rather enjoyed being the red flag that riled him up. “Miss Mabel is alone in that house with her monster of a nephew and we’re the only ones that even know she’s alive. So can we just go rescue the only decent adult I ever knew as a kid?” Her expression flickered with emotion and my shoulders sagged as I gave in to those destructively blue eyes.
“Fine, but I still don’t see why you brought him along for the ride.” I turned around, taking my chances with Fox’s anger as I led the way up the track.
“Technically he caught us planning to sneak out and invited himself,” Rogue murmured.
“And technically, I wouldn’t have had to if you trusted me with things like you apparently do the rest of our family,” Fox said in frustration.
“Family,” I tsked, shaking my head. “I see you inherited Daddy’s delusions.”
Fox moved to walked beside me and I upped my pace, sensing he was trying to take the lead even though I was the only one who knew where to find the damn entrance to the tunnel. JJ and Rogue half jogged behind us to keep up as we walked on the verge of running.
“At least I still know the meaning of the word,” Fox bit at me.
“And what’s that, Foxy? Being bossed around by you all day?” I tossed back.
“No. Loyalty,” he growled.
“Yeah, loyalty to you. If your little family are loyal to each other and not you though then it’s game over, right?”
“It goes both ways,” he hissed.
“Uhuh,” I said lightly.