Page 219 of Tenderfoot

They weren’t.

Well, maybe Willow a little, but she could lay down a good come-hither stare. I’d seen her.

That did not happen with Gabe.

In fact, she acted like he had some plague, which obviously didn’t sit well with Gabe (or any of us, if I was being honest—though, at least the Angels understood her once-bitten, twelve-thousand-times shy attitude to guys now).

On the other hand, I’d seen Luna walk right up to a dude and ask for his phone number before she even asked his name.

“What you’re saying is, it takes two to tango,” I said to Javi.

“Yeah. If there aren’t two who are up for the dance, no one gets to tango,” Javi replied.

My shoulders drooped.

He pressed a hard kiss on my lips and said, “One thing I know, shit shakes out like it should.”

I saw the look in his eye. That look said we shook out like we should.

And it made me feel totally better (for then, what could I say? I wanted all my girls to have it as good as I did).

So I grinned at him.

He kissed that too.

The goons who Cap, Gabe, Titus and Titus’s “army” subdued?

Javi didn’t share what became of them.

The Angels spent a lot of time conjecturing, and in the end guessed they were bargaining chips Mace used to make sure we didn’t have trouble with the Congressman.

But since Cap nor Eric shared with Raye or Jess either, in the end, we’d never know exactly what happened with them.

It was kind of hot that our men were a hint of a mystery.

Especially mine.

Plans were in full swing for Jacob and Alexis’s wedding.

They’d moved into the two-bedroom unit.

And get this, Joey and Gemma had moved into the two units that had opened up.

At first, since this same thing had happened with Luna, Jessie and me, we all braced for new Angels to be added to our ranks.

But nothing came of it.

So maybe they were just the next ones up on the waiting list.

Though, it was really nice having them a lot closer and getting to know them better, because they were awesome.

And we knew Joey and Gemma weren’t going to be added to the ranks because we had a couple of cases since solving Trev’s blackmail/murder situation.

One was tracking down some numbskull who kept stealing money from ladies of the evening.

Obviously, this wasn’t something that those girls could report to the cops.

But Jinx reported it to us.

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