Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 68538 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 68538 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 343(@200wpm)___ 274(@250wpm)___ 228(@300wpm)
I snorted. “I don’t think you have any understanding how much food is currently in the back of my car.”
Movement caused my gaze to shift from the good twin to the evil twin.
A shit-eating grin came over Auden’s face once he saw he now had my attention. “How bad do you want to piss him off?”
I studied the man, taking in his clothes, his five o’clock shadow, and the chocolate swirl of his eyes.
“If it makes him want to shoot himself, I’m down,” I grumbled darkly.
Amusement danced in Auden’s eyes, and I realized then that he wasn’t too upset about my threat to shoot the chief of police.
In fact, he was looking at me with an intensity that had my belly fluttering.
“I can have one of my brothers come over here and take this all to the station,” he said. “It’s been a pretty bad week there. Today marks a year since we lost a police officer in the line of duty. The pall at the office is kind of sad. You could take that all in, be their hero.”
I thought about that for a long second before saying, “How about we just stop there first? I’ll leave my car there. You can tell your brothers to meet us, then they won’t have to bring the van. But make sure to move over whatever you don’t want them to take.”
“Deal,” Auden said.
Don’t be fooled by the fake smile and professional body language. I’d punch you in the throat if I knew I wouldn’t go to jail.
—Maven’s secret thoughts
MAVEN
“I can’t believe we’re going fishing,” I muttered mostly to myself as we walked into the gas station to buy bait.
Well, I wasn’t buying bait. Auden and Atlas were buying bait.
But since it was hella hot outside—ninety-nine degrees at eight-thirty in the morning—I wasn’t interested in staying in the truck if I didn’t have to. Plus, I could use a good Dr. Pepper. That and a bag of Takis might be the only two things to turn this morning around for me.
And since I was there, I might as well use the facilities.
When we walked in, Atlas was there, heading toward the back room. I stopped at the counter and smiled at the haggard looking old lady.
“Hey, good morning.” I smiled, putting on my best nice face. “Where is your restroom?”
She pointed in the same direction the two men had disappeared.
Apparently, it just so happened that both the restroom and the fish bait were in the same large room at this particular establishment.
I walked around the corner and stared at the two men who were waiting beside a curtained off area toward the corner of the room. There were feet facing outward from behind the curtain. And in the middle of the large room was a massive black container filled with water.
And bait fish.
I walked to the line and stood behind the tallest guy I’d ever seen before in my life.
He had to be at least seven feet tall, if not more.
Pepper, who fell into place behind me, gave me wide eyes as she mouthed, ‘holy shit!’
I agreed.
I came up to the middle of the man’s spine.
At five-foot-six, I didn’t think that I was small, per se.
But wow, compared to the man in front of me, I was.
A toilet flushed, and the line moved forward.
I glanced beside me when a large, muscular body appeared in my peripheral vision.
Auden came up with a net in one hand, and a bucket in the other.
He leaned both of his arms on the side of the water trough, then glanced over at me with a sparkle in his eyes.
“I bet fifty bucks you won’t touch it.” Auden’s eyes gleamed, jerking his head toward the fish in his net.
I rolled my eyes. “You think that just because I am a girly girl, I won’t touch a fish?”
“I know you won’t,” he taunted me.
He was right.
I hated fish.
Well, I didn’t so much hate them as I hated how they felt.
The line moved again, and Pepper side-stepped me to take my spot in line.
I allowed this because my heart was beating a mile a minute at the nearness of the hottest man alive.
“Okay, so I don’t like fish.” I scrunched up my nose.
“Are you going to put that fish in the bucket and get some more, or do you need me to do it?” Atlas asked as he came up on my other side.
I’d never been a huge fan of why choose in the romance world.
I could never see how a man could share the love of his wife with another man.
However, with two dead sexy men on either side of me, I could see the appeal.
“Here,” Auden reached over me to hand Atlas the net. The bucket came next. “I’m gonna go grab us some drinks.” He leaned forward so that his mouth was near my ear when he said, “Want anything?”