“What the fuck, that doesn’t make any sense. He of all people should know something about the mission.” There was a heated debate about the implications of this, but the boys and I decided to shelf it for now, since there was really nothing else we could do. But it was passing strange that someone as high up in authority as he was, had no idea what I was talking about.
More alarming was the amount of time between the call-up and actual deployment; that shit’s just not done. My guy on the inside didn’t sound too pleased by the shit either, or the fact that he knew nothing and was only now hearing about it from me. Something was way the fuck off.
Granted it hadn’t been his division that had contacted us, and sometimes these things were kept close to the vest, it was still weird that he hadn’t heard a whiff of what was going on. Either the shit was more volatile than we’d first thought, or someone had got their wires crossed somewhere.
Either way it looked like we had bought some time, which with the news of Con’s impending fatherhood, was most welcome. Chances are we’d end up scrapping the mission because of this turn of events. It was a hard call to make, but we worked together or not at all, and I wasn’t about to take my brother into combat under these circumstances.
We’d done our bid ten times over and were free and clear. It would’ve been a favor in the old man’s memory, but getting to the bottom of this shit now took precedence as far as I was concerned. It was more important to me to make sure our own backyard was safe than some hellhole in some remote part of the world that would just go back to the same old same old ten minutes after we cleared out.
While I’d been taking care of that, each of the men were taking care of other things, gathering more information. We now knew that the closest base was ten and a half miles away, which wasn’t far at all, and that the man in charge was well known and respected.
He ran a tight ship and was known as a hard ass stickler for the rules type. If this was coming out of his house he didn’t know about it, and that was a little hard to swallow with a reputation like his, you can’t have it both ways. But neither was I ready to start pointing fingers at anyone.
The day dragged the fuck on since we had nothing else to do but wait. Vanessa was bringing in the woman and we were all chomping at the bit to see what if anything she could tell us. “You need to go talk to your girl bro, she looks miserable as fuck.”
“I don’t have time for this shit now Connor, I’ve got more important things on my mind.”
“Yeah, more important than her? Look, I know they can be a trial, and heaven knows Dani knows every fucking last one of my buttons to push, but they’re ours bro.
They’re the best fucking things to ever happen to us in this fucked up life.” Happy motherfucker, soup to nuts he’d be trying to wring Dani’s neck in a day or two when she starts giving him fits again. “Ty is right, you’re pussy whipped.” I smirked as I walked away. Maybe he had a point.
***
I read her million and one texts on the way to the house, each of them a different variation on I’m sorry. Fucking female will drive me to drink. She was in the house curled up on the church wrapped up in a blanket like a mummy.
I wonder how Con knew she looked miserable, which she did. She probably called him over to set him on my ass which was a neat little trick she and Dani had; play monkey in the middle. I didn’t say anything just stood over her until she looked up at me with red eyes, and a blotchy nose. My perfect baby, fuck.
I picked her up and sat her on my lap and not once did I complain about how fucking hot it was outside while she was wrapped up like we were in a Deepfreeze or some shit. Maybe her pussy hurt, serve her mean ass right. “Do you understand why I got so mad at you?” she nodded her head against my chest and sniffled. “You can’t tell a man like me that there are other men lined up waiting for you. First thing I’ll do is go find every last one of those motherfuckers and de-ball them. Then I’d skin your little ass and tie you to my bed for all time so no one else could ever get at you.”
“It’s not true Logan, I was just hurt because you seem to always want to put off the wedding.” I held her closer because I understood how she could misinterpret shit.
I haven’t been exactly forthcoming in the last few days because I don’t want her stressing about this shit, but I didn’t know her mind was gonna go off the fucking rails.
“Babe I’m not trying to put off the wedding, there’s some things going on that me and the guys need to take care of before we can relax again. I don’t want you involved so I’m not gonna tell you any more than that, just stop with the crazy okay. I want to marry you, more than anything in this world I wanna marry you, come ‘ere.” I could hear Ty in my mind calling me bitch made but I didn’t give a fuck.
I turned her around on my lap and fought with the blanket to get to her skin. When I had all her pertinent parts free, I fingered her pussy until she was sighing into my neck, then lifted her enough to seat her on my cock.
“I need your tit in my mouth, now.” Now it was her turn to fight with her clothes to get me what I wanted. “Feed it to me.” She held her tit up to my mouth as she rode my cock with my hands on her ass.
“ I love the way you ride my cock, like you’re enjoying the fuck out of it.” And she did, all those horse-riding lessons came in handy when she got on my dick, she had great muscle control.
Her tits seemed a little fuller in my mouth; she was probably close to her period, that’ll explain her attitude I guess. “Are you tender?” I hefted her tits in my hands as I pushed up into her. “Not really a little tingly but nothing bad.”
I went back to mauling her flesh as she dripped all over my dick. There were no rushed movements, just a nice slow up and down, in and out that made us both happy. “I love you baby.”
Her pussy tightened around me and she wept in my neck. “I love you too.” I rolled my eyes where she couldn’t see. Just why the fuck was she crying, who knows? I held her a little bit closer and let her tit for her lips, and when she started a nice slow cum, I bit into her neck to mark her, let her know she was mine all the way.
We ended up fucking one more time on the couch, this time I had her on her back as I drilled into her and whispered words of love and encouragement to her. I don’t know why the fuck I bother going upside her damn head when she acts up, because I end up putting in more time making up for that shit in the long run; high maintenance pain in the ass.
“We straight?” I flicked off the water and stepped out of the shower where she’d just sucked the last of my energy out through my dick. She sure knew how to make it up to her man.
The sun was gonna be going down soon and then the real fun would start, our visitor was gonna be here a few hours after that. “Oh shoot, I gotta start dinner.”
She slapped on her lotion and whatever the fuck else she used to make her smell fuckable before rushing out of the room. “What’s the rush?” Granted after that five star breakfast I couldn’t wait to see what she could do with dinner, but she was acting like there was a fire. “I wanna cook for the guys tonight. Breakfast was such a big hit I don’t feel any of my old fears anymore.” Poor baby, she looked so excited I didn’t have the heart to tell her that if you feed wild animals they always come begging for more. I’ll just have to knock some heads together and make sure they know not to fuck with me on this shit.
She threw on jeans and a white button down top, just some shit she pulled out of the walk-in closet, but made her look like she were getting ready for a magazine shoot.
“Flawless.” I like the way her eyes went all dreamy when I cupped her nape to hold her in place for a deep long kiss. “Don’t overdo it okay baby, just throw some scraps on a plate, they’ll appreciate it.” She gave me the bitch brow and jetted. Fine, I tried. I left the house in search of the hoard of wild beast that would be descending on my home in about two hours or so. The fucking kids were still here, but there was nothing to be done about that now, at least Davey had to be here for
his own protection, the sister, well, that was another story.
We ended up meeting up in the yard. No one wanted to go to the old man’s place because we had all unofficially decided tot take a break since there was nothing else to be done for now.
Connor was the last to join us, I’m guessing in the next few months it’s going to be like that. The decision not to go anywhere was getting easier and easier. “Listen up, Gabriella’s in there making some kinda spread.” The pigs started rubbing their bellies and grunting already.
That would be Ty the ringleader, Devon and Quinn. Zak just smiled and Cord was looking over at where the two kids were setting up to play ball. When is the last time any of us had used the court? It had been a while.
“I don’t want you freaks overworking her with this shit, or this would be the first and the last time.” Connor had had to have this same discussion weeks ago, for all the good it did him, I figured I could at least try.
“What’s she making Cap?” how the fuck should I know? “Tyler, come back here you greedy fuck. How’s Dani doing bro, we need to do something special for her soon, a baby is a big fucking deal.”
“Yeah it’s called a shower and the women usually take care of it, bitch made.” Ty shook his head while the others laughed at his antics. “Fine, but in the meantime we need to have a celebration, just a nice night out somewhere. Even though the mother to be can’t drink we can still go out somewhere to celebrate the fact that we’re gonna be uncles and Con’s gonna be a dad. We’re not gonna hide out in here from these fucks forever. We need to figure out what to do with the kid, the asshole didn’t mention him when he called, let’s hope he just thinks the kid missed or we got the drop on him.” I looked around at each of them and everyone seemed to be in agreement.
The more I thought about it, the more it seemed the kid was just collateral damage, not really a threat. If they suspected him of talking to the commander, they had to know by now that he didn’t know shit, but I didn’t think so.
From what the boy had described, it seems like the old man had been very crafty in their dealings, only meeting at certain times of the day, and never being seen talking together in public.
“I say we work on getting the kids home tonight, tomorrow the latest, we’ve got enough to worry about without the added stress.” Cord shifted from one leg to the next and I waited, but he didn’t say a thing. Talk soon turned to the situation with the Desert Fox and when we all put our heads together, it really didn’t make sense.
The thing about dealing with the military, unless you were the headman in charge, nothing had to make sense, you just followed orders. Our only saving grace is that we were out, and had been doing it as a favor. But there was nothing that said I had to take my men into a fucked up situation if I didn’t want to. They may try to shame us, but that shit never works. We had too much to live for these days.
Chapter 14
GABRIELLA
“I’m telling you, there’s something major going on, and I think it has something to do with that explosion we heard down by the water the other night.” I was putting the last stir on my whipped potatoes; with one last taste on the tip of my finger it was ready.
Dani was sitting on one of the kitchen stools at the island sipping on a ginger ale; it seems her morning sickness had got its times mixed up. “Did Connor say anything to you?”
“Nope, and I would stay out of it if I were you. These guys aren’t like what we’re used to Gaby, Logan will go upside your damn head if you go meddling in this stuff, trust me, I know. I can’t even ask Connor about what they’re doing without getting a lecture and a warning. If I were you I’d forget all about it they know what they’re doing.” I checked on my NY strip to make sure they weren’t overcooked and turned off the heat under the cast iron skillet I’d brought from home.
It was my nana’s and had been in my family for generations. My Bourbon pepper cream sauce for the meat was next, the beans had already been blanched. I started to get a little nervous. “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea, maybe I should’ve waited.” I went into panic mode I’ve been doing that a lot lately.
“Shush Gaby, we both know you can cook your ass off, stop worrying, did you see them at breakfast?” she rolled her eyes at me, and lifted her can to her lips. I looked down at the row of steaks on the platter that I’d covered with foil to keep the heat in and my chest got tight. This was my new family, what if they hated it, I was actually close to tears. “Dani.” She must’ve heard the panic in my voice because she left her perch and came over to hug me. “This isn’t about dinner is it hon?” I could only shake my head against her shoulder.
“It’s the wedding, and everything that’s going wrong, and Logan keeps getting mad at me because I can’t keep my big mouth shut, and our beautiful wedding is going to be destroyed.’ I said all that in one sentence and felt a little relieved to get it off my chest.
“That’s it, I know what I have to do.”
“Uh-oh, I know that look, that is the look that got me grounded more than once in this lifetime girlfriend, oh no.” She’s such a worrywart. “No-no-no, this is gonna be good I promise. Don’t you want to have the wedding you’ve always dreamed of? And how amazingly cool is it that we’ve found brothers to marry and that we can have a double huh? But there’s one fly in our ointment, whatever is going on down at the boardwalk. Now if only we can take care of whatever it is.”
“Gaby, if the guys can’t do it what makes you think we can?”
“Because the boys don’t know our little town like we do, it’s probably just some kids messing around.
Remember what we used to do down there when we were teens? It’s the same thing; it’s just that kids today are more advanced than we were. We had bonfires and firecrackers, these little delinquents probably have homemade bombs, I mean look who they’ve nabbed already, Davey. We both know what he and his cohorts get up to.”
“I don’t know, Connor seems to think there’s more going on.” She bit her lip but I could see her weakening, just a little more and I’d reel her in. “Yes but like I said, that’s only because they don’t know this town like we do. Our boys are SEALs babe, they’re trained to see danger in everything, shoot Logan would childproof the house for me if he thought he could get away with it. Sometimes at night he takes me through all these scenarios of what-ifs. I now know the theory of how to get out of every sticky situation known to man.
But am I ever really gonna need them here in Briarwood? Come on. Look. It’s our job to show these guys that they can take off the riot gear, that we’re perfectly safe. Unless you wanna be under house arrest every time something goes wrong in a fifty mile radius.”
“Fine, but we’re being careful.” She put her hand on her tummy and I had my first doubts. Nah, it was nothing I was sure, just Logan being overprotective as usual. If I wanted that wedding that I’ve had mapped out in my scrapbook since I was ten, I’m gonna have to do this. With my mind made up I went back to my sauce feeling ten pounds lighter.
***
LOGAN
“For the love of fuck, Ty chew.” It was no question that dinner was huge hit, she’d really outdone herself. There wasn’t an unloosened tab in the place. She had the biggest fucking smile on her face and that’s all I cared about, though I could wish the wildebeest at my table had some damn manners.
“What’s for dessert?” I closed my eyes and counted to ten, there’s no point in trying to control his greed. She got up from the table and headed for the kitchen and I got up to go help her. “Cap sit your ass down, no hokey pokey while I’m waiting for dessert. If you’re anything like Connor we’d end up waiting half an hour while you do who knows what in there, and some things just don’t taste the same cold.”
“Ty, learn to cook or better yet find a woman who can, that way you don’t have to worry about what goes on in my kitchen.” “Ooh nasty, I’m just saying.”
He wasn’t fazed by my tone, not even a little bit. I ignored his dumb ass
and went in search of her to help. She was bending over taking something out of the oven and I eased up behind her and rubbed my dick into her ass. “Logan you’ll make me drop the cobbler.”
She placed the pan on the rack and turned into my arms. “They liked it Logan, they liked my food.” I didn’t have it in me to tell her that that bunch would eat fried sawdust, but it was good that she could actually cook or they’ll talk about her, my brothers have no fucking etiquette whatsoever. “Yes baby I know.”
Before she could open her mouth to prate away at me I swallowed her tongue while pressing my cock into the junction of her thighs. “Let’s feed them real quick and get rid of them so I can have my dessert.”
I nibbled my way to her ear and bit down gently before going back to her lips. “Logan we just did it like a few hours ago.” That didn’t stop her for reaching for my mouth or grinding her pussy onto my cock. “Your point?” Ty started pounding his hand on the table in the next room and started up a chant for dessert. I heard the kid start to laugh before he joined in. “I’m gonna skin him.”
I helped her take the little mini crocks of the bubbly peach concoction out to the table after she’d spooned mounds of homemade whipped cream on top. My baby’s a fucking gourmet, which means that while Dani’s dealing with her pregnancy, my kitchen’s gonna be like the fucking mess deck. By the time I got rid of them it was already getting late. I wasn’t sure what the night would hold, but I knew I didn’t want to face it without her sweet taste on my tongue, or the memory of her pussy wrapped around my cock.
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