Brosnan as a close second. We both wanted the chance to prove ourselves right, so we each got to pick a movie with our favorite. Neither of us were swayed, but we were having so much fun, we decided to watch another.
I was giggling over the ridiculous name of the woman—who would turn out to be one of the bad guys—my second favorite spy had just met while playing cards in Monte Carlo when knuckles rapped against the door. Dom paused the movie and shifted me off his lap to set me on the cushion next to him before he got up. Crossing the room, he flipped the lock and let Hack inside.
“Hey, Dom...in...iccc,” Hack drawled, his eyes twinkling with humor.
Dom slugged him in the shoulder, and I rolled my eyes. The guys with rooms on either side of us had heard me screaming out Dominic’s name when he took my virginity—and a few other times in the days since then—and had taken to using his full name and lengthening it out to tease him. At first, I wasn’t sure what to think about the banter. It was a little embarrassing to know I was that loud when I came, but Dom got me over my self-consciousness with his cockiness over the whole thing. “Keep it up, and I’ll be sure to give you more shit than I planned when you finally manage to find a woman. I’m sure you’ll give me more than enough to work with, especially since it’ll take a fuck of a lot of effort on your part to make your woman as happy as my little doll is with me.”
“I have no doubt I’ll have more than what it takes when that time comes,” Hack muttered, crossing his arms over his broad chest. “But I’m not too worried about the distant future. By then, you’ll probably have half a dozen kids to worry about and will have forgotten all about your plans for revenge trash talk.”
“I’m doing my best to work on the first of those half dozen.” Dom winked at me as he walked back over to the couch and dropped down at my side.
Hack smiled at me. “Hey, Lucy. Let me know if he ever gets out of line. I’ll put him back in his place for you.”
It was also hard to be embarrassed around guys who never directed their teasing at me and went out of their way to be welcoming. “Will do.”
“My little doll never needs to worry about how I’m going to treat her,” Dom growled, pulling me onto his lap and wrapping his arms around me. “Did you knock on my door because you wanted to fuck with me, or did you actually have something to say?”
“Yeah, man. I did.” His expression turned serious as he heaved a deep sigh. “I looked into the cop and his murdering douchebag of a son.”
I felt Dom’s body tense beneath me. “You find something?”
Hack nodded, a muscle jumping in his jaw. “Figured out real quick that there had to be some truth behind the rumors Lucy’s co-worker mentioned. News articles here and there that were quickly retracted. Mentions of police reports that didn’t seem to exist. But once shit like that has been entered into the system, you can’t hide it from guys like me forever. You might fool everyone else, but a good hacker can find the traces left behind if they know where to start looking.”
“Quit bragging and tell me what the fuck you found,” Dom rumbled.
“Intimidating people into keeping quiet isn’t a new thing for the dad. He’s tossed his badge around and bullied his son’s way out of trouble. First case I found dated back eight years to when he was in high school. The girl he dated was from the wrong side of the tracks, and he took full advantage of it when she tried to dump him senior year.” He pinched the bridge of his nose. “The little fucker didn’t like taking no for an answer, and she didn’t have anywhere to turn. The cops ignored her each time she wanted to file a report. The motherfucker stalked her ass for months. He didn’t leave her alone until he found a new girl after graduation.”
“Fuck,” Dom hissed, his arms tightening around me.
Tears filled my eyes as I thought about the hell that young girl had been put through. “I need to tell the cops what I saw. He tortured that girl, killed my neighbor. Someone has