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“What?”

“My name.” He spun around and grinned. “You know, just in case you wanted to call me something other than Baldy. You keep forgetting I have a name.”

I rolled my eyes at him. “Slider.”

He winked at me. “Any time, Wifey.”

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SLIDER

IRIS smirked at me as I carried Audrey’s limp form from the vehicle into the house.

“What?”

“Nothing. Domestication looks good on you.”

I rolled my eyes at him. “I’m doing my job. Something you should be doing, by the way.”

“Oh, I am,” he chuckled. “Look, I got the door for you,” he said, hurrying up the steps to open the door to the safe house. “And I’ll even get the door to the bedroom where you’ll be staying with her.”

“I’m not staying with her,” I glowered.

“Ah, but you told me the good doc said to keep an eye on her.”

“Yeah, but?—”

“And since Rae is busy tracking down leads, that leaves me on perimeter duty.”

“Craig is here,” I pointed out.

He scratched the back of his head. “Yeah, but Craig is barely conscious and she’s not his responsibility. In fact, he’s not even the one who called her wifey,” he grinned.

“That was a joke.”

“But it fits, don’t you think?”

I knew the moment it slipped from my lips that he was going to harass me about this for the rest of the night. Possibly for the rest of the job. I never should have said it, but there was nothing I could do about that now.

I carried Audrey down the hall to the bedroom and gently laid her down on the bed.

“Look at you, taking care of the wife,” IRIS chuckled. “You should really get some sleep. I’ll take first shift.”

“That’s not?—”

He shut the door without giving me a chance to say another word. That fucker was pushing me at her for no reason other than to get his rocks off. Which he had already done earlier when he tossed not one but two bombs at that house. The second of which landed Audrey in the hospital with a concussion.

Although, technically, I would have taken her to the hospital anyway after the accident she was in. Craig and Alec were in rough enough shape, but I couldn’t force them to seek medical treatment.

Sighing, I tugged off Audrey’s shoes and considered removing her pants for all of two seconds before I decided that would be crossing a line. Even if she did look uncomfortable as hell, I wasn’t about to go there with her. Not when I already had her face in my crotch earlier tonight.

After kicking off my own boots, I walked around to the other side of the bed and laid down, making sure to leave plenty of space between us. Now that I finally allowed myself the luxury of relaxing, my body sank into the mattress and I groaned as my muscles protested as they cramped. I really needed a fucking massage.

Or a soak in a hot tub.

Hell, at this point, I’d take a bathtub and twenty minutes alone with some Epsom salts. It took a few minutes for my body to finally wind down enough to allow my brain to shut down.My eyes grew heavier by the moment until I was finally drifting off to sleep, but just as the land of nod was calling my name, something brushed against me, jolting me from my peaceful slumber.

I swallowed hard as my eyes flew open. My body was on high alert as legs wrapped around mine, but it was the hand that grazed my cock that had me painfully hard. I didn’t dare move or even blink, terrified that she would wake up and…

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