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“A thousand times better,” Isaac responded with a grin that reached his ears.

Both men tucked their cocks back in their jeans, then did up their zippers.

“Let’s go find Diesel,” Isaac ordered before grabbing Jared’s hand and leaping off the porch.

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ISAAC

Returning back home hadn’t been the warmest of welcomes. Matteo was annoyed as fuck that they stayed the night, even after he specifically told Diesel that they were to come right home after Isaac’s meeting with his uncle. Apparently, they should have verified Diesel’s story before trusting that they had Matteo’s permission to extend their stay in Ireland.

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Matteo was also pissed as shit when he heard that the prison guard worked for Ares.

Ares got an angry phone call from Matteo at two a.m. when they returned, reminding the international arms dealer that they weren’t friends and to stay the fuck out of his affairs.

As it turned out, Ares had been paying a few of the guards to keep tabs on Isaac’s uncle and to occasionally rearrange the man’s face. When asked why he’d been interested in Isaac’s uncle, Ares simply replied, “Because you are.” To that, Matteo said his farewells, wishing Ares a wonderful time fucking himself, before smashing his cell phone down on his desk, cracking his screen in the process.

Isaac knew that Matteo had a temper, but for some reason, he always became more explosive whenever Ares was involved. Apparently, the two had some sort of history together, but no one knew the details.

Then, of course, there was Chase. Levi’s loving boyfriend and man hired to hunt down all the monsters listed in theBook of Sin—which was what they were calling Edwin’s journal.

Chase. Was. Furious.

“How could you all be so stupid?” Chase shouted, pacing around Matteo’s office, nostrils flaring as he tore each of them a new one. “Now that you two fucks went to see your uncle, you’ve taken away the element of surprise.”

“Yeah, but the guy didn’t know anything,” Jared rebutted. “Plus, the man’s in jail. Who’s he gonna tell?”

If looks could kill, Jared’s brains would be splattered across the far wall, and Isaac would be standing next to him, blindfolded, waiting for the scary Canadian to take his next shot.

Yes, Chase was Canadian, but you would never guess with the way Chase was threatening to dismember and murder every single one of their asses.Polite… my ass.

“You want to save the dismembering for after the murdering part. Might make it hard to kill someone when they are lying in multiple pieces,” Diesel noted, taking a sip of his whiskey as he watched the festivities unfold.

Leave it to Diesel to make a smart-ass remark when a trained killer was on a rampage.

“Why are you even here?” Chase barked, waving his arms around like he was trying to turn back time.

“’Cus I’m enjoying some of Daddy’s expensive liquor while watching theloonieCanadian have a meltdown.” Diesel snorted into his drink. “See what I did there? Loonie? ’Cus that’s what Canadians call their money.”

Matteo threw a rubber stress ball at Diesel and watched as it bounced off his forehead.

“Out. And stop drinking! You’re supposed to be in recovery!” Matteo scolded, walking around his desk and stepping in front of Chase.

Diesel shrugged his shoulders, then left the room, but not before grabbing the rest of the bottle as he passed Matteo’s bar.

Isaac stepped forward. “Chase, I get why you’re mad, but we didn’t have time to wait for you to get back from wherever the fuck you were. We needed to find my brother and take down his operation.”

“Who is the former cop here?”

“Hey, I am ex-army,” Jared chimed in, raising a hand in his own defense.

“Yeah, so you’re good at killing stuff, not going undercover and locating hidden people. Dangerous people. People who spend their lives breaking people’s bones and boiling their bodies in acid.”

“Umm, I beg to differ. I’ve seen some nasty shit while on tour. People are fucked in the head,” Jared added, taking a sip of his whiskey.

Apparently, two a.m. drinking was a thing now.

Chase’s boyfriend, Levi, sat quietly on the sofa, watching his man with heart-shaped eyes. The kid really got off watching Chase go all alpha and aggressive on people. He would have loved watching Chase give the smack-down to Oldridge Peabody, the man who had kidnapped Levi last month and held him captive in his “dungeon doll house.”

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