“I don’t know how I feel about this,” Ryder says for the tenth time.
Dex leans up between the seats. “Me either, Baby girl.”
“What else am I supposed to do? Make their mom disappear without finding out if they fucked me over? You know that’s not my style.”
Alexey’s familiar blue Lambo comes into view, stopping beside us before both of them step out. We climb out and meet at the hood. “Where’s Mama?” Alexey growls, and it’s the second time he’s used that tone with me.
“I just risked my ass to get your mom out of that house. I suggest you. Back. The. Fuck. Up.” I grit out. I’m in no mood for this bullshit; I just want to sleep for days.
Dex leans casually against the hood, crossing his arms over hischest. “What I want to know is why the fuck there were all those guards, and your dad was nowhere to be seen?”
“How the hell should I know?” Alexey says. “We weren’t there. Just like you fucking told us not to be.”
“Seems suspicious to me to have that much manpower guarding a woman you say your dad is abusing,” Ryder comments, mirroring Dex’s pose.
“You think we set you up?” Dmitri asks incredulously. “Why the fuck would we do that?”
“Maybe you’re closer to your father than I thought.” I shrug. “Like father like son and all that.”
Alexey steps into my space. “We arenothinglike our father.”
“You have exactly two seconds to step the fuck back, or I will rip your intestines through your asshole and feed them to your brother,” Ryder threatens, standing to his full height.
Dmitri jerks Alexey back by his shoulder. “Sorry, Alessa. We’re just worried.”
Alexey shrugs off Dmitri’s hand. “I apologize, Les. We would never do anything to betray your trust.”
I look between them, trying to find the lie, and don’t see one. They honestly had no clue all those guys were at his dad’s.
“One more thing,” I say. “Why the hell would your dad rig a room to explode in the conservatory?”
They both frown at that. “What room?” Alexey asks.
“It was a safe room off to the back. It blew the second the door was pulled open,” Ryder explains. “Almost blew three of us to shit.”
Dmitri shakes his head. “We’ve never heard anything about it.”
Ryder, Dex, and I exchange a look before I look back at the twins. “I’ll text you the address and let Gage know you’re on your way. You better hope you aren’t betraying me because his threat,” I point at Ryder, “will look like fucking child’s play compared to what I’ll do to you.”
“You aren’t coming?” Alexey asks while pulling his car door open.
“We have something to take care of. We’ll meet you down there,”I tell him, climbing into Ryder’s SUV with the guys following behind me.
Ryder watches the twins drive off before turning to me. “We don’t have anything to take care of.”
I shrug, trying to hide a smile. “Take the long way back to Marcella’s,” I answer, firing off the address to them and a text to Gage.
He frowns but jerks the SUV into drive and pulls through the docks parking lot. I slide across the console and into the backseat with Dex.
“What are you doing, Baby girl?” Dex asks with a chuckle.
In answer, I kick off my shoes and then undo my jeans, sliding them off my legs with my panties. I catch Ryder’s eyes in the rearview mirror and finally grin.
“What the fuck,Il mio sole?” he growls, glancing at the road and back at me in the mirror.
I throw one leg over Dex’s and brace the other on the back of the passenger side seat, giving Ryder an unrestricted view in the mirror. It’s dangerous as hell to distract him like this, but I need him; I needthem.
Dex slides his hand between my thighs, rubbing my clit. “Is this what you want, Baby girl?”
