Page 118 of Her Daddies' Everything

Jase turned his attention on her. “Yeah? That so?”

“Uh-huh. Tobias is a total badass, but he really enjoys making rules. I think he might have a bit of a problem, but I won’t tell him.”

Tobias rolled his eyes briefly to the ceiling. Did she seriously think he couldn’t hear her?

And, oh fuck, he just realized that he’d just adopted her habit of looking to the sky for help.

“Do not have a problem, Cherry,” he growled at her, tugging her closer. “And we’re leaving.”

“But I just got here!” she cried. “I haven’t even had my diet soda.”

“Get you a diet soda at home.”

“But Amos puts lime in it.”

“Immy, why do you need a bodyguard?” another guy called out.

“I don’t. Not really. My friends are just being overprotective because some guy kidnapped another my friends and he had this tattoo, which was the same tattoo that the Sentinels in the Children of the Divine had. Which is the cult I grew up in. So now we’re not sure what’s going on or how this relates to the cult.”

Tobias stared down at her in shock. What the hell had she just said? And did she seriously think anyone was going to understand her?

But, to his shock, people in the room nodded as though they did actually understand.

“That’s not good, Immy,” another rough guy called out.

“Yeah. We’re hoping this guy was just someone who was obsessed with the cult. But until we know for sure, I’ve got Tobias with me. He’s all right. Except for all his rules.”

Everyone stared at Tobias.

“Doesn’t look like any bodyguard I’ve ever met,” Jase said.

Tobias glared at them all. “We’re leaving, Immy.”

“Please. We’re here now, can’t we stay? This place is safe.”

Was she delusional? This place was far from safe.

“Gonna take a wild stab and guess the others don’t know you come here,” he said.

A smug look filled her face and he braced himself.

“Actually, Isaiah has been here with me.”

Then Isaiah was an idiot. He didn’t know him as well as the others but what the hell?

“He shouldn’t have let you come here,” he said.

Whirling, she put her hands on her hips as she glared up at him. “Let me?Letme?”

Tobias leaned in so they were eye-to-eye. “Yes,letyou. As inallowyou to come here. He should have picked you up, carried you out, and smacked your ass for the trouble.”

She gasped so hard that she actually stumbled backward. “How dare you! Isaiah would never smack my ass and he doesn’tletme do anything. The guys aren’t in charge of me.” She actually stomped her foot on the floor. “And neither are you, you overgrown baboon!”

Oh, this girl.

She was definitely in need of a good spanking. And his hand itched to deliver it. Seemed like her friends let her get away with murder.

Well, some of them. He had to admit he didn’t know Isaiah as good as he did the others. But he didn’t think Sampson or Jenner would allow her to come here. Abe was harder to read.

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