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No, wait He didn’t love Hannah He couldn’t She was going to be like a sister That was all

He would get over this raging desire to have her underneath him

He could hear her screa as he walked toward reception

Slade was right She needed a gag

Hannah took a deep breath as the airplane finally leveled out

Slade released his seat belt and stood “I’ to need a drink” He walked down the aisle and opened a s amount of liquor

He poured a couple of inches worth of scotch into three crystal glasses and passed them to his brothers

They offered Hannah nothing Bastards She wouldn’t curse anywhere but in her own head

It wasn’t ladylike, her grand all kinds of four-letter words to describe the three men who had kidnapped her Jerks No, kinky jerks She’d known that since the minute Dex forced her into the limo and opened his own small suitcase to reveal a rubber ball with ties He’d threatened to gag her with it, and she’d since refused to speak

Besides a ball gag, what else had the big cowboy packed? Probably some rope She looked between Slade and Dex She’d heard the rumors They liked to share the same woman, and they frequented several exotic clubs like the ones in those books on her eBook reader

But they weren’t taking her needs into consideration So she wasn’t going to fantasize about theh and ruthless ith her

God, as she thinking? They would laugh their asses off if they kne often she thought about the three of theh even harder if they found out she was a twenty-five-year-old virgin

“You read the file?” Dex asked as Slade passed him his drink

Slade’s face went hard as he looked her way That wasn’t good Slade was the happy brother

Gavin was the brooder, and Dex the bruiser Slade almost always had a smile for her Now he scowled as he pinned her with his deep blue eyes

“I read it Are we in agreement about how to handle this?”

“I think the kid gloves are off,” Dex said enigmatically

“I think you burned the kid gloves when you hauled her out of the building kicking and screa s of his scotch “That poor IT guy just about fainted when you shoved past him”

Dex gnashed his teeth “Was that the fucker who offered to fix your coive them the cold shoulder, but clearly none of them would accept that

Soe, and her self-preservation kicked in She folded her hands in her lap She wished Lyle hadn’t witnessed her abduction What ?

“Yes Lyle is the head of the help desk He’d graciously agreed to coht to fix my laptop”

“Gracious isn’t the word I would use,” Slade said under his breath

Her little laptop was currently in its bag, sitting on top of her suitcase in the overhead bin

How had Dex gotten her things? And how had he known Lyle was fixing her computer?

“You broke into my house” It was the only explanation Lyle had left her a otten back to him, and now it looked like she wouldn’t

He shrugged his big shoulders negligently “Yeah It wasn’t hard You don’t even have a damn deadbolt”

She’d never really needed one and hadn’t thought about it until about a e in, I will certainly buy two or three”

“Don’t worry about it,” Dex said with a nasty s back there”

“What is that supposed toon?

Slade turned to her “Besides, if Dex hadn’t broken in, he wouldn’t have found your cat” She softened Her norh hell because she’d obviously taken a feipes at her rescuer “I really do appreciate that Though, I would have liked to have seen her”

“The vet said she was going to be fine,” Gavin said “Do you have any idea ould want to hurt your cat? She had a knife wound in her gut”

She gasped in shock Tears followed “No I don’t know”

All three rowled Hannah shrank back in her seat Gavin held up the folder she kept by her phone, the one in which she had been storing all her evidence She winced

Dex leaned forward “You want to a around, and the next lie that co to earn you some punishment” Punishment? “I don’t like the sound of that, Mr Townsend” Liar She liked it way toocould hear her heart pound “And it’s none of your business”

She had to put this on a proper footing She couldn’t let these men intio back to work for therandma’s etiquette lessons hadn’t covered this situation

Dex stood up, but Slade held a hand out “Why don’t we get the full story before we start in on her?”

Gavin looked between the two of theent look on his face “You really were born far too late, Dex Genghis Khan could have used you” Dex eased back into his seat If the corunted and nodded toward Slade, who turned to her, arms crossed over his wide chest He re attorney about to slice and dice an opponent

“How long have you known so you, Hannah?”

The silky slide of his voice didn’t fool her He was pissed off Maybe it was time to come clean “About a month”

All three men huffed

“Tell us” Gavin didn’t ask He simply commanded

What would it hurt now? Her secret was out, and h she wouldn’t adht had just lifted off her shoulders “It was phone calls at first I would answer but no one was there, just a lot of breathing”

“Caller ID?” Dex asked

“It showed up as unavailable He calledannoyed at first She’d stopped answering the phone “Then, after a week or so, he left a e, but in a weird voice”

Slade sat back in his chair, his hand going to the folder, fingers tapping against it

“According to the police report, he used a coet a copy”