Page 16 of Our Tricks

“God no, I’m not sure Ghost would have let anyone pry that thing out of his hands. Just impressed with the job it did,” Cam answered with a chuckle.

Void narrowed his eyes at my dark knight like he didn’t quite believe him, but Ghost piped up. “Seriously, I’ve been trying to find a way to use that thing for almost two years. Assassins are supposed to be more subtle than that, so you bet your ass I wasn’t going to let anyone, not even Harper, take that fun from me.”

Shoving the man with my hip, he looked down. “See, now you can turn off the eye daggers and let the man live another day.”

With a grunt, Void let it go but pulled me close and nuzzled his face in my hair before we stepped off the elevator.

“I thought it was hard for the four of us to manage things, but damn, Dax, you had to pick a whole bunch of alpha males, didn’t you?” Ghost commented, leading the way down the hall then stopped and looked around. “Where are we going?”

I snickered and waved an arm for him to follow. “This way.” Glancing back at Ghost, I questioned his earlier statement. “Did you think I’d pick men I could walk all over? What fun would that be for me? Cam is as whipped as I want them, and he’ll still argue with me when he feels the need to.”

Cam came to a halt looking at me, shocked. “Beautiful, you think I’m whipped?”

“Yes,” the rest of us said in unison.

“Hmm,” Cam responded with a contemplative look. “Interesting that you all feel the same about that.”

Ghost clapped him on the shoulder. “Don’t take it too hard. I’m the exact same way with Harper. If she’d told me I couldn’t come play, I’d have told Wes no. Thankfully, she loves me enough to let me spend time with my new friends.”

“Good god,” I said with a snort. “I should’ve been recording this conversation for Harper to hear. She’d laugh her ass off.”

The conversation came to an end as we arrived at the door, but I tossed it open at the sounds of a struggle. Ken was up out of his chair, broken handles in hand, using them as weapons against Charlie and Daniel. The two seemed to have taken a beating but were holding their own against this asshole.

Void grabbed the back of my shirt and pulled me back as Cam and Ghost dove into the fight. I watched the two of them take down Ken in a few quick moves from the safety of Void’s arms. Leaning my head back, I relaxed into his body, letting him know I wasn’t looking to join in. Cam took out Ken’s legs at the same time Ghost used one of the chair arms and slammed it into Ken’s face. His head snapped back at the force of the hit, aiding in his descent. It didn’t knock him out, but it dazed him so that he laid on the floor for a moment, giving Ghost and Cam enough time to grab him and haul him to his feet.

Blood dripped down Ken’s face as the two dragged him out of the room. “We’ll meet you up there,” Cam offered.

“Works for me. I’m just gonna make sure these two are good,” I said, gesturing my head toward Charlie and Daniel.

Ken struggled a moment, but Cam gave a growl of frustration and slammed an elbow into his temple, knocking the man out. Now completely limp, they lugged him down the hall, the man’s dress shoes scraping on the floor as they went. The dude shouldn’t have struggled if he didn’t want to get his ass handed to him.

Turning to Tommaso’s men, I stepped out of Void’s hold. “You guys good?” I asked.

Daniel lifted a hand, tentatively touched his lip, and winced. “Other than our pride, I think we’ll survive. Your guys made us look like amateurs.”

“Yeah…” I drawled. “One’s an FBI agent, and the other is one of the best assassins in the US. I wouldn’t take it too hard.”

Their eyes went wide as they looked after the two men arguing about something as they went. “What the fuck is a Fed doing with you?” Daniel asked.

Void was up in the poor man’s face faster than I could blink. “The fuck you saying about my little demon?”

Daniel’s face drained of what little color it still had left. “N-nothing, nothing at all,” he stammered. “I didn’t mean anything by it… just curious how he got wrapped up in this whole thing.”

“If you ask him, he’ll say something stupid like because he loves me,” I said, tugging Void back. “Me, on the other hand, it’s because I own his ass.”

“What?” Charlie asked, his face scrunched.

I sighed then ran a hand through my hair. “Look, don’t worry about him. He’s loyal to me until the day he dies and then some if he has anything to say about it. Hell, I think he’d fuck the shit out of the devil to make sure we could be together in the afterlife.”

“Ha, I’d kill the devil so I could rule over hell, and then there’d be no worry about shit like that,” Void countered.

Slipping my hand into his, I leaned on his arm, looking up at him. “Seriously, you need to stop getting all sappy on me, big guy. If you’re not careful, I might end up fucking you right here in this room.”

Void hauled me up, and I instinctively wrapped my legs around his waist. “Then I’d have to kill those two. No one gets to see your sexy body and how you look when you come around my cock but your husbands.”

I glanced over at the two men whose eyes were laser-focused on us. “That’s the only warning you two get. Leave now, and if you don’t want innocent blood on your hands, make sure no one uses the other room to watch either.”

Clearly not willing to take any chances, Void pulled his gun and shot three times into the large glass pane and shattered the whole thing. “Now there’s no question we’ll be alone.”