“You think so?” I took another sip andrested my head on the table. “He hasn’t said he wants to keep me or that heloves me, though. But he did say during sex that I was his. Is that keepingme?”
“He wants to keep you.” Austin gave meanother pat. “I saw his face that night in the club. He definitely wants tokeep you.”
“You think?” Rolling my head to the side, Ilooked at Austin. “He wanted me to stay over three times this week.”
“I’m sure.” Austin managed to hug mewithout offending the floor. “He probably just doesn’t understand that notrushing is stupid.”
“Yes, he likes to worry.” Smiling, I satup. “But I’m going to make a nice dinner for his family and then he’ll see thathe wants to keep me and that he loves me.”
Tanner nodded. “Then he’ll see that theboys need an omega parent too. Being a single parent is hard even when thealpha is sane. He’s going to need help.”
For some reason Bradley was giving us weirdlooks, but I focused on Tanner. “Very true. He works long hours and needssomeone to take care of him and the boys.”
Austin straightened too fast again andtipped over but managed to sit up before he damaged the floor too much. “We’llget him more business. Then he’ll need Wade to take care of him.”
Bradley waved his hand. “No, I’m prettysure keeping him too busy will backfire.”
Oh, good point.
“And we have to be careful who we send himto.” I sat up, remembering part of what I was going to tell them. “Someone theyworked for after the club but on that same weekend grabbed the boys and triedto be inappropriate with Griffin as well. I cannot have my boys or my alphamanhandled like that.”
Dakota cocked his head. “Both of them?”
“Both who?” Had that question made sense?
“The boys and Griffin. They’re all verydifferent.” Dakota gave Bradley a confused look. “That’s usually not the same,right?”
Bradley clearly thought he was making moresense than the rest of us did. He definitely needed another drink. “Usually predatorsare more specific with primary and secondary genders, yes.”
Oh.
“There was one of each.” Glad I could help,I explained. “There was one asshole alpha and one asshole omega. And Griffinsaid he couldn’t report them because no one would believe them. That doesn’tseem right.”
“They were tag-teamed?” Austin’s eyesnarrowed and we all shivered. We’d seen that look before. “I know who that was.Don’t worry.”
I hadn’t been worried.
Siccing Austin on people was fun.
“But there’s no time to form a battle strategynow. We have a mission.” Austin rubbed his hands together gleefully.
“Mission?” Maybe another drink would jog mymemory.
“My art.” Jonah sighed. “I have to get theidea down.”
“And I need paper.” Dakota glared at us.“I’m going to stop agreeing not to bring paper.”
Austin snorted. “You have some in yourpocket.”
“I do?” Dakota looked down at his lap.“It’s rumpled. I need new paper.”
I pointed toward Austin. “You’re tooglittery. Secret agents never sparkle.”
“Don’t worry.” Austin drank down the restof the moonshine in his glass. “I have a plan.”
Chapter 18
Griffin