He frowns, checking me over like he doesn’t believe me. After a day of leering, it’s actually a nice change of pace to have someone look at me with genuine concern. I tap my finger to my chin as I debate an idea, they may or may not prove to be terrible. But honestly, that’s never stopped me before.
“You have a job yet?”
He gives me a strange look, thrown by the sudden change of topic. “No, I was out job hunting when I ran into you. Haven’t had any luck, so I was going to call it a day and head home, try again tomorrow.”
I grin, internally laughing maniacally at my genius. “I’ll give you a thousand bucks a month to be my bodyguard until I choose my mates,” I offer before hitching a thumb at the town behind me in the direction of the bookstore. “Because if that sort of mess happens again, my brothers will definitely try locking me in the house or insist one of them join me everywhere anyway. What do you say?”
Soren is actively grinning now. “Wouldn’t it be a conflict of interest?”
I start climbing back in the driver’s seat as he shuts the door like a gentleman. “Why do you say that?”
He winks. “I’m going to be trying to keep you away from all of them and all to myself.”
Be still my heart.
“So that’s a yes?”
He comes around the car and climbs in beside me, ducking his head a bit to fit. “It’s a hell yes, little dragon.”
Chapter 7
Soren
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“Five seconds. You havefive seconds to explain what this guy is doing in our house,” Kaiden demands, green eyes narrowed like he’s trying to laser my face off.
I stuck with Ezra the rest of the day, joined her as she picked up her little brother, who didn’t look nearly as upset as I thought he would, and back to her home. She called and the triplets said they’d be home for dinner today, so she figured this would be the perfect time to get this out of the way. The three of us are already eating, because they were late and Ezra got tired of waiting.
She gives them the bullet point version of what happened today, ending with her plan to hire me. I might be biased, but I completely agree with her that the plan is brilliant. She doesn’t need to worry about assholes that won’t leave her alone, and I get to not only make sure she’s safe, but spend nearly all of my time with her.
They make it all of five seconds before exploding into a litany of complaints.
“Do you mean to tell me you are paying a guy to stare at you all day? To be alone with you constantly? You couldn’t even choose one that would do it for free, Ms. Moneybags?” Kinsley exclaims, gesturing wildly while grabbing a plate and sitting at the end of the table near Elias.
Elias and I are on one half of the table while Ezra took the head of the table beside me, leaving Kahl to sit across from me and Kaiden across from Elias.
