Page 36 of The Best Trick

“And if he thinks we’re gonna tie him up and fuck in front of him again, he’s got another think coming!” I said.

Zeus gave me a dark look.

Tying up Denko and having group sex in front of him was one of our weirder escapades, but I had enjoyed it. What could be hotter than to be fucked in front of a stern and dangerous stranger who is tied up, angry, and unable to move? And none are sterner or more dangerous than ZOX Agent Denko. The man wanted to kill us and very well might succeed. Can you get sterner than that?

It was a combination of the sternness and the way that it was so wrong, not to mention being the ultimate fuck you. The ultimate way to say,look at us being wild and free, asshole! We’re living our best lives!

However, it seemed like not the best time to be getting into that.

“We should have taken him out,” Thor said.

We all came to attention at this.

It was a shocking thing for Thor to say, even offhandedly, being that he’d been such a dedicated doctor. Still was a dedicated doctor.

Thor had been forced to kill a man one time, and it had shaken him to the core. No way would he be okay with any kind of killing ever again. That’s not who he was, not who we were.

“I get it,” Zeus said to Thor. “I hate that motherfucker, too, but we’re gonna find his dog. This is what's in front of us now.”

“Well, it shouldn't be in front of us; a normal life should have been in front of us,” Thor said. “They knew all along?”

“I know,” Zeus said softly. “But now we have this chance to reverse things. What if?”

Thor glared out the window. “If this exculpatory evidence does exist—evidence that clears our names once and for all—why the hell do they continue to pursue us? Who are they protecting?”

There it was: the zillion-dollar question.

Back when Thor was a volunteer doctor in a war zone, he’d witnessed some sort of atrocity—they would never tell me what—and he had tried to bring it to light. Odin, and then Zeus, were sent to kill Thor, but they quickly realized he was innocent and had refused to kill him, thereby turning from hunters to hunted.

They had known they needed to disappear. During their escape, Thor had been forced to step up and shoot a man who was about to kill Zeus and Odin. The act of shooting and killing a fellow human being had shaken Thor to the core.

“ZOX is protecting somebody more powerful,” Odin suggested. “Whoever they’re protecting, that’s who’s behind it.” Meaning, that’s who was behind the atrocity Thor had witnessed—the atrocity that they would never tell me about.

“If the tackle bag exists, we have to get it,” Thor said grimly. “We need to do what it takes. Whatever it takes. We end this. One way or another, this has to end.”

There was an urgency to his statement I didn’t like, and I settled my head onto his shoulder. “Is this so bad, though?” I said. “I feel like we have things nobody else in the world has. A normal life wouldn't give those things to us. We'd never have found each other if not for all of what happened.”

Thor just grumbled in his sexy Thor way.

“It's wild that Denko would be willing to blow his whole career to find his dog,” I said. “He doesn't seem like the type. But I guess we run with it.”

“Screw that,” Zeus said, turning to Odin. “You up on him?”

Odin had his phone out. “He's heading back to his office, it looks like. This window is not gonna last. We up for a road trip?”

“Wait, are we talking about Denko?” I asked. “Denko’s heading back to the office? You're tracking him?”

“I put a little something in his pocket when he gave us the picture of his dog,” Odin said. “It's only a matter of time until he figures it out, so we need to move on it. He's got a condo on Waring.”

“Wait, what?” I exclaimed. “You're not saying what I think you're saying, are you?” Was he suggesting we ransack Denko’s home?

Odin turned back and smiled at me.

“If you need to pee, you better do it now,” Zeus said.

“Oh my god, you have to stop saying that!” I said.

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