Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
“And you think she’s hot,” Kala teased because this was a place where she felt comfortable.
“She is but…she’s not for me,” he admitted, and there was a hint of sorrow in his words.
“And Cooper’s not for me.” She reached out and squeezed her brother’s hand before releasing a long sigh. “Well, let me know if you need help on the prank front. I still need to get Uncle Adam back for fucking with my security system.”
Seth winced. “Yeah, you should do that. No one should fuck with your security system. Just so you know, that’s my stance on this, and if it ever happens again, I won’t be a part of it. Never.”
Okay, that was weird, but there was the sound of a car stopping and then a honk.
She turned and Lou waved at her from the passenger side of the truck. She was about to tell Lou to give her a minute so she could interrogate her brother further, but then her sisters were walking out the front door. Tasha held hands with Dare, and Kenzie’s eyes lit when she saw Kala.
“Gotta go. Don’t want to keep Lou and TJ waiting.” She bounded down the stairs.
“Coward,” her twin called out. “You know I’ll still be there in the morning.”
But she might not. Kala settled herself into TJ’s truck and put off the problem of her sisters for another day. Tonight she would drown her sorrows in waffles and bacon and put off the moment when she had to be alone again.
Chapter Nine
“Seriously, guys, no one has to stay with me.” Cooper tried not to think about his very precarious position.
Not so precarious, actually, since he was securely tied in here. Big Tag hadn’t forgotten how to tie a dude down. He had forgotten how to give a man some dignity. At least they’d let him get under the sheet before they’d gone to work.
“I think he’ll be fine.” Seth Taggart had shown up, pulling his truck in behind Cooper’s SUV. Kenzie was somewhere in the house but had declared she didn’t have any part in this and all of her twin’s revenge was going to be on the men of the family. And she’d promptly run off, dialing someone on her cell phone.
Probably Tasha.
Big Tag made a tsking sound. “Seth, I thought I taught you better. You never leave a sub tied up and unattended. Anything could happen. A robber could come in and see our friend Cooper laid out like a feast.”
“A robber is not making a feast out of me.” He should have known Big Tag would be obnoxious, but when he’d laid this plan out, it had halfway made sense.
And he was so desperate, halfway worked for him. If he let her sleep on this, it would be done. She would talk herself out of ever trying again.
He might never know what happened to her. He wasn’t sure he could live without trying everything he could.
So that was why he was naked, his wrists tied to Kala’s mattress, and nothing but a thin sheet covering him. He’d argued they wouldn’t be able to properly tie him up without the right equipment since he didn’t want to be tied to the headboard. It wouldn’t give him the freedom he needed for what he was going to do.
Not a problem. Big Tag simply stopped by Sanctum and suddenly they had all the under-the-mattress restraints they needed.
Seth looked like a younger version of his father. “I’m with Coop. No robber is taking anything from him. Also, I’d kind of like to not be here when she shows up. She’s going to figure out you took down her security cams so she couldn’t see us walking in, and that is a revenge I don’t want.”
Big Tag shrugged. “If Coop here does his job properly, she won’t care.”
“Also, should I really be doing this? Trying to get my sister laid?” Seth asked.
“Holy shit,” a feminine voice said. “I thought you were sneaking him in so he could talk to her. Whoa. Daddy, I think we should do this to Ben. Think of all the intel I could get.”
Kenzie was dressed for bed in PJs, with slippers on her feet and her hair piled high on her head. She did not look anything like the deadly operative he knew her to be.
Her father’s eyes rolled. “Absolutely not. And I thought you wanted plausible deniability.”
She shrugged. “Curiosity got the better of me. So what’d you do to my sister, Cooper?”
Now he saw the folly of his own actions. He was trapped with Taggarts. “I tried to start a relationship with her. Like I have been for years now.”
“Don’t,” Big Tag said, putting a hand on his daughter’s arm. “I’ve already put him through the ringer. Do you think I would be doing this if I wasn’t certain he’s telling me the truth and he wants to make things right?”