“I—I…” Why was he angry with her? It was her fault Janek’s man was following Caleb, but she hadn’t asked Caleb to stop and pick her up.
“Nem.” Caleb tucked her into his side. “Ease up, man. Don’t scare her.”
“I thought he was Dalton,” she whispered to Caleb.
“He is,” Caleb answered. “He’s also Nemesis.”
I’m so confused.She thought nicknames only happened in the movies. Apparently, she was wrong, and Top Gun was right. “Um…”
Dalton opened his mouth as if he was going to ask another question, but the man standing next to him hit him with his elbow and said, “If our exfil is clear, why don’t we go back to the hotel or to my place? At least there we aren’t out in the open.”
One man went to the second truck and grabbed something out of it, which he handed to Caleb. She couldn’t see what he did with it as his hand moved to the side of his head opposite to where she stood. It would have been rude to lean around him to check.
“Okay.” Caleb nodded. “Let’s go.” The men parted around them as he guided her around the truck again and opened the door for her. She climbed in and turned as the rear door was also opened, and a large man climbed into the back behind Caleb’s seat.
“I’m numb-nuts’s brother.”
“Shut up, asshole,” Caleb snarled at the man as he leaned in to strap her into the seat. “You good?” he whispered to her.
She nodded. “Numb-nuts?”
He winced and tossed a scowl at the man behind them. “I’m gonna kick your ass, Kace.” He winked at her. “Don’t mind my brother. He’s a jerk at the best of times.”
Ah, that’s his brother.
“You and whose army?” Kacey muttered under his breath as Caleb closed the door and went back to the driver’s side before climbing in and starting the engine.
She looked at Kace curiously before his piercing gaze sent shivers down her spine. She turned forward again and smiled weakly at Caleb as he patted her knee, then released the handbrake to follow the first truck, with the second one falling into line behind them. She didn’t know where they were going—either the hotel or someone’s house. “If you all turn out to be axe murders, I’m going to be so freaking pissed.”
They are friends of Indy’s and Lizz, so they have to be safe.
She was so tired of trying to stay ahead of Janek and his goons. So fricking tired of it. At this point, if Caleb turned out to be a creep, maybe she should just sit her ass down and say have at it. Anything he could do to her had to be better than the hell she was trying to stay one step ahead of. It had to be!
7
“Clear.”
Thank fuck he now had the earpiece Dalton had brought for him. He hated relying on his phone, even with Trev on the line when he was driving. It was much safer to have comms. Although, he didn’t know where Nem had gotten them from, as they hadn’t expected to be working this weekend. He hit the gas and followed Dalton out of the underground parking lot.
“Where are we going?”
“I’m not sure.” He hoped Rose didn’t think he was crazy for not finding out. When the chips were down, there were few men he trusted. Almost all of them were either in the truck in front of them or behind. “But the boss and the guys won’t put us in danger.”
Kacey snorted behind him. “Sure. Keep telling yourself that.”
“Shut up.” Killing your brother was allowed under extreme circumstances, right? If it wasn’t, it should be. “Don’t scare her more than she already is.”
“She needs to be,” his brother growled. “Only a stupid woman wouldn’t be scared with an asshole chasing her. Are you a stupid woman, Rose?”
“Um—no. I don’t think so.”
When they got to where they were going, there was going to be a come-to-Jesus meeting between him and Kacey. His big brother could just take his asswipe attitude and shove it where the sun didn’t shine. Although, knowing Kacey, the sun probably did fucking shine up his ass.
“Keep it that way,” Kacey ordered Rose in his typical no-nonsense manner. “Don’t be too fucking stupid to live, and we’re good.”
“Jeez, you’re rude.”
Caleb grinned at Rose’s comment under her breath and started silently counting in his head because he was sure his bat-eared brother probably heard it anyway. He smirked at Kacey in the rearview mirror when his brother grunted.
