TJ sighed as he gestured back toward the break room. “Well, I never thought our office would be taken over by youthful assassins. What exactly do we know about them?”
“Not enough to bring them in,” Ben groused.
He was cranky, but then he’d had a day. Which would have been made better had he taken her into an office and smacked her ass silly and then fucked her until his eyes rolled to the back of his head and did that slump down on her like she was the best fuck toy in the world thing and then she would get them some tea and cookies.
When she’d suggested they talk in private he’d kissed her briefly and said he needed to call in. He spent half an hour calling his boss from a secure line and then joined them.
Like nothing had happened. Like this was just another day.
“What are we supposed to do with them?” Kenzie asked. If he was going to be professional, then she would be, too. “We need to figure out if they know anything about the person who hired them.”
Kenzie was calmer about the two young women, who couldn’t be much past twenty. Sosa was obnoxious as hell and Gabby could talk a mile a minute, but it was obvious that they were both traumatized. Gabby had held on to that stupid teddy bear like it was a lifeline, and Sosa had held on to Gabby.
“I already had my boss look into them. I sent your father what Joseph discovered,” Ben admitted.
Kenzie cocked a brow. “And?”
“Hey, are you having a meeting without me?” Kala strode in and frowned at Ben. “Ben.”
He frowned right back. “Chick who nearly deballed me for no reason.”
They’d avoided each other at the wedding and would likely have continued to if they hadn’t been called up here.
“Oh, I had reasons,” Kala shot back and might have said more but Cooper chose that moment to slide an arm around her shoulders.
“Ben, my man.” Her brother-in-law was as sunny as her sister was dark. He held out his free hand.
Ben shook it, but there was a reluctance. “Good to see you, Cooper.”
“Nah, it’s not,” Cooper replied with a smile. “But it will be one day. So the old guy got shot by another Russian girl?”
“French,” TJ said.
Cooper stepped back and laughed. “Perfect. And now he has to deal with… What are we calling them?”
“Benzie,” Lou said after a long swallow. “TJ’s right. It’s the only way to go. Kenjamin sounds like someone got cute.”
“I like it.” It was fun. “It’s way better than Kalper.”
Ben’s expression had gone all cute-boy confused. “What?”
Kenzie pointed to her cousin. “TJ likes couple names. Says it saves him time. So Tasha and Dare are Dasha. I like to call Lou and TJ Loot. We decided on Zevi for Zach and Devi. And we’re obviously Benzie. Cute, huh?”
He did not look impressed.
“We are not calling us Kalper. It sounds like some equation from physics we’re supposed to solve,” Kala complained.
“Yes, that’s why I like it,” Lou shot back.
Eve McKay walked in from her office. She was casual today in jeans and a sweater, her blonde hair in a bun on her head. She winked her son’s way. “Hey, sweetie. Where’s your brother? The new one.”
That was Aunt Eve. She found out her adopted son had a brother and she brought him right in. Zach had been going to family dinners with the McKays for weeks now.
“He and Devi headed to Colorado after the wedding,” Cooper explained. “Charlotte is sending Seth and Travis out today. Zach is going to coordinate with the sheriff and Henry Flanders for their protection, and he wants to check in on his mom.”
Who was also Cooper’s bio mom, but he’d made it plain while he was open to a relationship with Shannon, Eve McKay was his momma.
Huisman would love to get his hands on Shannon Reed. She was the infamous bombmaker who’d designed the perfect system to deliver Huisman’s anthrax, but she’d been smart enough to not let him learn how to make it. Keeping her safe was important.
