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She’d seemed so sincere when she’d asked us to help her with the house. I’d been taken in by the sweet-little-virgin act, distracted by the fact that she made my dick hard.

“She’s lying,” Wolf said. “It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Plus, she asked me about Blake today.”

“What about him?” Otis asked.

“About that night,” Wolf said. “About what happened.”

I cursed again and stared out over the edge of the falls. The sun was setting in the west, dropping below the tree line and turning the woods into shadow. “What did you say?”

“I told her I wasn’t going to talk about Blake, that if she insisted on talking about it we’d leave,” Wolf said.

“How’d she take that?” I asked.

Wolf shrugged. “She took it.”

I had the feeling there was something he wasn’t saying, but I didn’t bother pressing him about it. I already had my hands full with this newest revelation.

“I don’t think it matters why she invited us to the house,” Otis said. “We’re here now, and judging from the package Daisy got today, it’s a good fucking thing we are.”

I wanted to argue the point, but Otis was right: how we’d come to live at the house with Daisy was less important than the fact that we were here, because whether Daisy was telling the truth or not, someone out there thought she was nosing around.

And that was very bad for Daisy. Especially now.

I wanted to pretend it didn’t matter, to pretend I didn’t care, but the truth was, the thought of someone coming for Daisy made my blood run cold.

Was I still dreaming about the heat between her thighs the day I’d cornered her in the closet?

Fuck yes.

Was my dick ground hamburger from beating off because I knew she was right down the hall when I got into bed at night?

Double fuck yes.

But in the darkest part of my heart, the one I didn’t want to acknowledge existed, the one I’d locked away a long time ago, there was more to it than my lust for the Virgin Daisy.

Wolf swore and ducked his head. “Now what?”

“We need to lock this place down,” I said.

“Done,” Otis said. “The alarm system is in and the cameras are installed. I’ll give you the code and send you an invite to the app.”

“You put them along the path leading to the house too?” I asked.

Otis nodded. “Four of them, two on either side.”

“Good,” I said. “Next up: information. And you know what that means.”

Wolf grinned. “Fight night?”

I nodded. “Fight night.”

Chapter 28

Daisy

Iwatched them from the window in my bedroom through the creeping dusk. They were obviously deep in conversation — a conversation they didn’t want me to hear.

Jace had been pissed when we’d shown him the package, like it was my fault some psycho was out there trying to intimidate me.

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