Page 61 of Spy With Me
His team was here, and he had some explaining to do.
ChapterEleven
Devi knew that voice.
She had been planning to do exactly what Zach told her todo. After she took out the plug. It turned out it kind of slipped out when shetook that first step without thinking about it. She was picking it up with oneof the handy towels Zach had stacked because no matter what situation she wasin, a good sub never left a used butt plug sitting around. That was a D/s no-noshe wasn’t going to play around with no matter how close to death she was.
Although the bad guys might slip on it. No.Ewww.
Plug stored, she was moving toward the window she wouldlikely fall out of when she heard her cousin’s voice.
“I’d love to see you try, asshole.”
She breathed the biggest sigh of relief. “Kala!”
“Hey, Dev. I’m thinking about killing your boyfriend.” WhenDevi looked down Kala was dressed in all black and had a Glock to the back ofZach’s head. Kala glanced up. “He was supposed to tell me where you were. I hadto find out for myself.”
Rude, but she could understand. It was hard for Kala to beon the outside. “Well, we’re fine.”
“You are not fine. You are doing gross, dumb stuff, andapparently I’m somehow involved,” Kala pointed out.
Her cousin was taking things for granted. “You don’t knowthat. Maybe Kenz takes over the syndicate.”
Kala snorted. “Like Kenzie could run a syndicate. She wouldtry talking to our enemies. Hell, she would probably fall in love with one, andwhile that is useful sometimes, not in the syndicate. Also, Tash would beterrible, too, but the point is what you’re doing is weird.”
“Hey, girl who wants me to wear bat wings to the nextcostume party. Or are we riding dragons now?” Cooper McKay stepped from behindthe ladder. He smiled up at her. “Devi, don’t let her shame you. She’s a totalpervert and into fairy porn. Role-play is a perfectly normal thing. Hey,brother. You’ve pissed off my wife and fucked up my honeymoon. We were supposedto be in the Bahamas.”
“Well, I was supposed to be in Dallas concentrating on mynanite project, but it’s cool. I’m pretty sure it works.” Lou was standing bythe horses’ pen. Her brother’s girlfriend had a wide smile on her face likethis was all a magnificent adventure. She was also in all black. There wasapparently a dress code. “I don’t think the suckers will turn on the people whowear it and, like, eat them or anything. I didn’t give them teeth, you know. Iam a little worried, though, because they can rewrite code. What if they decideto give themselves teeth? The good news is I think I made the kill switch sothey can’t touch it.”
“A smart play, bestie,” Kala said with a nod. “Now someoneget thedoserbecause Zach’s going to take a napwhile I get my cousin out of here.”
“No, you’re not.” Devi suddenly realized she was going tohave to exert some willpower. She turned and started down the ladder.
Everyone in the barn groaned.
“Devi, dude, underwear,” Kala barked.
And then whoofed because Zach used her distraction to turnand disarm her cousin. They did some twirly-whirly action-hero moves. Like theythought they were in a martial arts film.
At least someone was having fun.
They really liked punching each other. Weird.
“Hey, Dev,” Lou said, walking up. “Way to distract. Did youknow they have Highland cows? They’re so cute. What is this place?”
“Don’t kill each other,” Cooper said, watching the fight,but he leaned against one of the stalls. If he was worried about his brand-newwife and, well, brand-new brother killing each other, he didn’t show it.
“Kala, I’m not going anywhere so don’t give Zach any of thatsleepy stuff you use on people,” Devi called out. “He’s heavy, and I have plansfor him later on tonight. Though you are kind of playing into our role-play,you know.” She turned to Lou. “The cows are so sweet, but watch out for thedonkey. Oh, Sunny just had kittens. You should come see. Hey, where’s mybrother? Did he let you run off with the team all alone? Where’s Uncle Ian?”
“TJ decided to wait outside,” Lou said, her eyes wide behindthe big glasses she wore. “He kind of turned green when we figured out you werein the barn and you weren’t alone.”
She frowned Lou’s way. In the back she heard Kala curse, andthen the barn floors shook as something big obviously hit the ground. “Don’ttouch his face,” she called out before turning back to Lou. “The rest of youcouldn’t do the same?”
Cooper yawned. “Nah. I figured it was like the club. Look,Kala wanted to snipe Zach from afar. I thought we should talk. She wasunwilling to wait outside in case Zach had another way out. I was here to makesure she didn’t lose her shit, and Lou wanted to see the animals.”
“They’re so cute. Is this like a sanctuary? I noticed thepoor horse has scars,” Lou said. “Also, when did Zach start speaking Russian?”
Her boyfriend was all kinds of surprises. “I think aroundthe time he decided to be on a team full of people who spoke Russian. He didn’twant to get left out.”
