Page 169 of Back in the Saddle

He nodded, once, and finally ducked into his tent.

As we walked to the car, Raye said to Harlow, “We’ll drive out like we’re driving away, so I can make sure we don’t have a tail. Then we’ll come back and drop you on the other side of the warehouse.”

“Cool,” Harlow said.

We all got in the car. Raye drove away.

“Keep driving,” an ultra-deep voice came from all the way in the back.

We all shrieked, and Raye drove up on the sidewalk.

I twisted in my seat and had to contort because Javi was pushing himself through the opening into the backseat with Harlow and me.

Somehow, he managed this miracle regardless of his size, and he planted his fine ass between me and Harlow.

“Quick draw. Impressed. But if you tase me, beautiful, when I come to, I’m kissin’ you,” he said, his head turned toward Harlow.

I leaned forward and saw Harlow staring up at him with her mouth hanging open and her Taser aimed at Javi.

“Harlow, put your Taser down,” I ordered. “This is Javi.”

“You’re Javi?” Harlow whispered in her adorable grown-woman, little-girl voice that I suspected drove some men wild.

“In the flesh,” Javi whispered back.

“Hi,” Harlow breathed, yep, still in that grown-woman, little-girl voice.

Javi made a low, rough noise that I felt in my nipples.

Translation: he was one of those men who her voice drove wild.

Which meant I also felt my eyes bug out of my head.

I turned to Luna to see she’d twisted in her seat to stare at them, and her eyes were bugged out of her head.

I looked to the rearview mirror to see Raye had corrected us and we were back on the road. She was still driving, but she was also looking in the mirror with her eyes bugged out of head.

Their eyes could be like that simply due to all that was Javi, since this was the first time they’d seen him.

Though, I suspected it was only partly due to that and partly due to what was happening between Harlow and Javi.

I returned my attention to them to see I’d still ceased to exist and those two were the only people in the SUV.

I only had a split second to consider a Javi/Harlow hookup.

In that split second, I decided it both scared the shit out of me, and I loved it.

Then I had to move us along.

“Sorry to interrupt.”

It took visible effort for Javi to turn his head to me.

Whereupon I smacked him in the chest and snapped, “Dude! You scared the shit out of all of us.”

“We can’t be seen talking, and your man would lose his mind if I broke into your house to get a brief,” Javi returned.

Eric would indeed do that.

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