Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 82282 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 82282 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 411(@200wpm)___ 329(@250wpm)___ 274(@300wpm)
She’d done this a couple other times, explaining that she’d slept with her eyes open since she could remember. Although she said that sometimes she got lucky and they would close. If they didn’t, she woke up with itchy, dry eyes.
However normal it was, it was incredibly creepy to me.
Walking over to her, I removed her shoes, socks, and shorts. Which left her in only her school shirt, bra, and panties.
The panties were fucking hot.
They were teal and see through. And they made me want to rip them off of her and fuck the absolute shit out of her. Twice.
What I wanted to do, and what I needed to do, were two different things though. Sadly, I had Sebastian, Silas, Loki, and Dixie outside waiting for me to come out and try to figure out what was going on with Viddy’s stalker.
Reaching forward, I closed her eyelids with a finger, gave her a gentle kiss on the lips, and left the room.
Sebastian was kicked back in my recliner as if he owned it, and the rest of the men occupied the couch.
Good thing it was big, or it wouldn’t have held that much weight.
I took a seat at the dining room table, and faced the room.
“Something needs to happen to him. I vote making him disappear.” Dixie said without preamble.
Silas was nodding in agreement as well.
“I can’t kill him. He’s too well known in the community, and Viddy made me promise.”
“Fucker doesn’t have to die to get the point across.” Silas observed dryly.
A slow grin started to tilt the corner of my mouth up, and I agreed. “No, he sure doesn’t.”
“Let me run some background checks on him. You should call Jack and see what he can get on him as well. His sources normally work a hell of a lot faster than mine do. Maybe with the two of us working on this, we can find his weakness.” Silas expounded.
Jack was another member of Free.
He and his wife, Winter, were hell to a firewall. They did illegal things, for good reasons.
They could hack into any database and get any information they needed. Services we’d used time and time again. Services that were invaluable. They were practically geniuses in their field.
We fell silent as we heard the click-click of nails on the hardwood floor, followed by a rubbing sound, and watched, dumfounded, as Viddy walked into the room followed closely by the puppies.
I didn’t know what it was that set me off, but I could tell immediately that she was still asleep. Sleepwalking, as you would say.
Adeline had told me that Viddy used to sleepwalk, and to watch out for it. Hearing about it, and experiencing it were two different things.
Her eyes were unfocused, and she was using the wall as support.
Luckily, the shirt she had on was covering the vitals; otherwise, I would’ve had to gouge some eyes out with pitchforks.
Standing up, I walked over to the couch and grabbed the throw that was over the back of it, turning just in time to see Viddy drop down on the couch between Silas and Dixie.
She wiggled and squirmed for a good minute making herself comfortable, and then laid her head on Silas’ shoulder and fell back asleep.
With her eyes still open.
“That is creepy as fuck,” Sebastian said warily.
Moving to Viddy, I tossed the blanket over her lap and went back to my seat at the table with my brothers.
“I didn’t think Adeline was being serious when she teased Viddy about sleeping with her eyes open. I thought it was more of a ‘watch your back’ kind of thing.” Foster said dryly.
“At least she doesn’t talk in her sleep about random shit. Don’t think I didn’t hear you last night.” Miller sniped.
Foster threw his hands up in the air. “It’s not my fault!”
I pinned my baby brother with a hard look. “Not Viddy’s fault, either.”
He smirked. “It wasn’t in a vicious way. It was a more of a ‘hey, look at that!’ kind of way.”
I grunted, refusing to acknowledge him. “Better keep it that way, too. Don’t tease her about it either or I’ll have to shove that nice shiny new rifle you bought today up your ass.”
“You could always try...” Foster growled, moving his hands in a ‘bring it on’ gesture.
“Boys,” Silas rumbled. “Are we done here? It’s late, and I have some things to take care of.”
“Funny,” Dixie mumbled. “I like where I’m at right now.”
He would. Where Silas was holding up her head with his shoulder, Viddy’s ass was pressed up against Dixie’s thigh.
“Shouldn’t you be at the North Pole...Santa?” I snapped.
He laughed, causing his big gut to jiggle. “I know she’s your girl, Trance Dance. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the view.”
The meeting continued as we ironed out some more details, as well as figuring out what the next step in our plan would be.
I finally closed the door behind Silas, Sebastian, and Dixie around midnight.
I checked the doors, and windows in the front of the house, knowing my brothers would do it in the back. I kenneled the puppies after letting them out, and then scooped Viddy off the couch.
She settled more comfortably against my chest, snuggling in until her head was underneath my chin, and she sighed deeply.
“You awake?” I asked as I entered my bedroom.
I walked straight to the bed and laid her down, waiting for her to answer.
“If I say yes, what’ll you do to me?” She replied sleepily.
“Nothing you wouldn’t want me to do.” I quipped.
“How’d I get in the middle of a meeting with only my panties on? I specifically remember leaving my jeans on after I gave you the silent treatment.” She whispered into the dark.
Sitting down on the edge of the bed, I unlaced my boots and tossed them into the corner of the room.
“You were giving me the silent treatment?” I asked in surprise as I stood to pull down my pants.
I kicked those into the corner, too, before crawling into bed beside Viddy and pulling her in close to my body.