Total pages in book: 146
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 136425 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 682(@200wpm)___ 546(@250wpm)___ 455(@300wpm)
“He doesn’t know you’re here?” It was inconceivable that her uncle had no idea four members of his team had gone missing.
“Well, we really did fly to the Bahamas and stayed for two whole days to take pictures,” Lou replied with a sad sigh. “I thought it would be more fun, but Kala was in full-on mission mode.”
“Why were you going on Coop and Kala’s honeymoon?” Devi asked.
“That was the funny part.” Cooper shook his head. “No one batted an eyelash. Everyone accepted that we are weird, interconnected couples who sometimes end up all sleeping together without any swinging, thank the universe. Lou is Kala’s emotional support tech goddess. Big Tag didn’t say anything. So we took pics to send to the family to hopefully convince them we’re sunning ourselves in the Caribbean and hopped a plane to Cardiff.”
This was her fault. “Who told? Was it Daisy?”
“What the fuck is that?” Kala called out.
“I told you to stop bitch slapping me,” Zach replied, frustration on full display.
“Then stop being a little bitch, Zach,” Kala replied.
They might be at this for hours. Her cousin wasn’t politically correct. Or polite in any way.
“It was Bri,” Lou admitted. “And she doesn’t know she told. She was explaining that she was working on this story where a beautiful fashion designer got kidnapped by her rogue CIA agent ex and taken to Wales. So it was a good bet you were in Wales. From there we might have sent someone to figure out where you were in Wales. It’s a small country, but you still can’t go knocking on all the doors.”
“Zach is good at avoiding CCTV, but he’s not perfect. We caught him on a camera in town buying, of all things, cat toys.” Cooper tilted his head as though studying her. “Tell me those weren’t for you.”
Well, she could probably do some kitten play, but she wasn’t going to admit that to Cooper. “No, they’re for the cats. And please don’t mention that to him because I’m the one who made him buy toys. They’re babies. They need to play.” She realized there was something wrong with this scenario.
“I swear I will beat you down if you use that on me,” Kala swore.
“Well, if you didn’t want to get roped, sister, you shouldn’t have walked into my fucking barn,” Zach practically roared.
“I should go check on that,” Cooper said with a sigh as they heard the back door sliding open. He grinned. “Zach found a lasso, and it looks like he knows what he’s doing. Hey, when you get her wrapped up, deliver her right back here, brother. I like the whole barn thing. It’s rustic. Maybe we should do a barn add-on at The Hideout. We have a surprising amount of cowboys who come through.”
“You’ve been monitoring every CCTV cam in Wales?” She wasn’t going to blame her bestie. Brianna looked for inspiration in all realms of her life. And it would be cool to get a book before Daisy did.
Although Daisy’s love story ended in happily ever after. She wondered how Bri would get her hero and heroine out of the whole death v prison inevitable outcome.
“Not exactly,” Lou hedged. “We had some help from friends of ours. You’ll meet them later, I’m sure, and we should talk about that because Kala is going to have to act a little weird.”
Her cousin was acting weird right now. She was cussing up a storm. Not weird for her, but some people might find the mix of languages odd.
“Zach, don’t do it,” Kala warned.
Devi looked back, and the big barn doors to the south of the building were wide open and Zach had a lariat in his hand. Oh, it was a lasso in Texas, but she was doing the Wales thing now. Welsh.
“Are you going to be reasonable? Are you going to sit down and talk this out?” Zach asked, but not in his reasonable voice. He was using the voice that came out when he was a bit overstimulated.
She moved to stand beside Cooper. “I don’t think either of them is going to sit and talk things out. Do you think they’re going to fight to the death?”
“Nah, just until Kala stomps his balls or something. It’s a thing she does,” Cooper admitted.
And she had the intel she needed. “Take her down, babe. She’s planning on going for your balls.”
She needed his balls. She was pretty sure his cock wouldn’t work if her cousin shoved his balls back up into his body cavity. She was not spending the whole night holding a bag of ice to her temporary Dom’s crotch. Also, another thought hit her.
Zach let the lariat fly and proved he was damn good with rope. Kala turned and tried to swerve away, but it did not work. The lariat landed around her and Zach immediately tightened it and pulled back, catching her around her waist. She ended up on her ass, back to Zach.