Page 140 of Duty and Desire
Did hereallythink that was going to work?
“We’ll get toyounext,” Tex boomed at him.
See?
It did not work.
I looked to my side and up to see Mo had his head bent, staring at his feet, his profile telling me he was even more amused than he’d been before.
Yes, he was insane.
This wasnotfunny.
I had to take things in hand.
“Listen, guys, like Mo said, it’s done,” I shared with the room. “It’s been rough, but it’s over and we’re on to the celebratory phase. So if we could do the debriefing when there’s beer and tequila handy, in other words,some other time, it would be appreciated.”
“The celebratory phase?”
This came from Hector.
And the way it came from Hector had my body locking.
It was then I noticed that the Hot Bunch had been so preoccupied with being pissed at me that they hadn’t quite noticed Mo was there, he was wearing nothing but cargos, and I was in a nightie.
Oh man.
“You do not,ever,” Luke growled at Mo, “enter into an intimate relationship with the person you’re protecting.”
Mo’s head came up and he wasn’t amused anymore.
Oh man!
“He didn’t,” I said hurriedly to Luke. “We didn’t start that until a couple of hours ago.”
“Intimacy doesn’t only involve fucking,” Vance declared.
He had me there.
“It was totally professional,” I lied.
“Looks professional to me,” Ren remarked.
I glared at him, wondering what he was even doing there. He wasn’t a member of the Hot Bunch.
Though he was married to Ally Nightingale, now Ally Zano, and he was most definitely hot, and his own brand of badass, and obviously, when it came to certain things, it appeared it was all in the family.
“It’s over now,” I snapped. “Like I said, we didn’t start the fucking part until a couple of hours ago, even thoughIwouldhave started fucking a week ago, Mo wouldn’t let me. So from that, you can see it was all professional.”
“Can you stop talking about fucking Mo?” Lee asked angrily.
“I’m a big girl, Lee,” I shot back at him.
“You’re every man in this room’s little sister, Lottie,” he returned. “So as such, can we please stop talking about you fuckinganybody?”
I didn’t answer him.
I’d gone solid.
