“Oh, look,” I said, seeing the black SUV coming down the road. “Gamble’s here.”
“Sorry, sis,” Drew was quick to say. “We gotta go greet him.”
All four of us took off, with her calling a warning behind us.
“You’d think she’d be thankful we were watching that hornball,” Braeden muttered.
“We’re just gonna have to be quieter about it,” Romeo surmised.
“I gave his hand a good squeeze,” I added.
“Good one,” B congratulated.
“I’ll hack his social media and sneak around,” Drew offered.
“Now this is the kind of brotherly love I need,” B drawled.
Gamble was getting out of the back seat when we walked up. “Why do you four look like you’re going to need my lawyers?”
“Us?” Drew asked. “We’re angels.”
“Lucifer was once an angel,” he deadpanned.
“We were just introducing ourselves to Nova’s date.”
Gamble’s eyes gleamed. “Date, you say? I’ll need his name for a background check.”
“I wish my wife were more like a man,” B said. Then he made a face. “Actually, no. I don’t.”
“I’ll introduce you to him later,” Romeo said, shaking his hand. “How are you, Ron?”
“Anderson. Retirement looks good on you.”
“It would probably look good on you too,” he suggested.
Gamble made a rude noise. “I’ll retire when I’m dead.” His eyes moved to my husband. “Guess you don’t have the same work ethic.”
Drew laughed. “Not everyone is made of steel like you.”
“I give you two years, tops, before you’re at my door asking for a job.”
Drew chuckled. “You’d give me one.”
“Well, I can’t have you working for my competition.”
“Do you have competition?” Braeden wondered.
“No.”
“We’re glad you could make it,” I said around a laugh. “Got a bottle of scotch and a steak waiting for you.”
“You know the way to a man’s heart.”
“He’s taken,” Drew said, making me look his way. When he winked, I considered dragging him into a room with a lock on the door.
“Keep your dick in your pants, Mask. I want to see my grandkids.”
“Right this way,” I said, leading him toward the sprawling deck off the back of the main house.
