She gaped. “Are you serious?”
“Yes. I’m having a consultant look into this for me discreetly. It’s going to take a while, but we’re going to see who matches up, DNA-wise,from our organization. Someone sent this boy to me. The name Angel keeps popping up. We have a feeling she was the mother.”
He’d told her about this contractor named Angel. A scary woman, but one who must have loved her baby if she’d sent the little guy to Noel.
Addy bit her lip. “Could Brent have been the father?”
“Already checked. No. But that code in the locket means something.Deacon’s taken it as his life’s mission to find out what.” He nodded, seeming satisfied. “Hammer is going to keep looking into Angel. We’ll find out what’s what and get the baby back to his rightful mother or father. In the meantime, he’s ours.”
“And if we never find his mother or father?” she asked softly.
“He’s ours,” he repeated.
She liked that answer, a lot. “That’s ifwe don’t have to fight Deacon for him. He’s become a little attached.” They watched Deacon hurry to put the baby back on the blanket he’d rolled off of. She grinned. “It doesn’t help that the baby keeps saying ‘Dee-dee.’ Deacon is convinced he’s trying to say his name.” She watched Deacon give Solene a thorough once-over since she was turned the other way. “But you know, Noel, we might not be theonly ones fighting to keep him.”
“How’s that?”
She nodded at Solene. “I could be wrong, but my friend and your friend don’t like each other a littletoo much. What if you’re not the only one who decides to leave the Business and start a new life on the island?”
“I don’t know.” He gave Deacon and Solene a thoughtful look. “But I’ll bet you fifty bucks it doesn’t happen. Deaconis too edgy to settle down. Solene hates men. Ask her. I think you’re seeing hearts everywhere because you love me.” So smug, her man. “Next thing you’ll be telling me Vi and Hammer are a thing.” He angled her chin so she could see them arguing over a point. “She’s close to braining the giant with her racket.”
Vi took being competitive to an all new level.
“Ah, well, maybe not thosetwo. Not yet. But Vi’s new. Give her time.” She turned back to Noel and kissed him. The heat built, the love between them so strong. “Now how about you and I play hide the gun while the others play their own game?”
“Best idea you’ve had all week.” He darted to his feet as if he’d never been shot.
“Slow down or you’ll hurt yourself.”
“We need to talk before the fun starts.Come on.”
She bit back a groan of disappointment. She and Noel hadn’t been intimate since they’d both been shot. “Okay.”
He tugged her inside with him and hurried toward his bedroom, then locked them both inside.
“Noel?”
“Math first.” He grinned. “Okay, Ms. Rose. Time for numbers. Show me what sixty-nine really means.”
She watched him shuck out of his clothes,proudly displaying a scarred up body that never failed to turn her on. With a grin, she slowly took off her own clothes, then laid down on the bed. “Well, Mr. Cavanaugh, first you turn around. And then you…”
It turned out he learned much better by showing, not telling.
