Page 56 of Their Wicked Secrets: Untouched, Vol 5 of 6

Kenz crosses her arms. “I’m her best friend.”

“And I need to keep her safe.” I search her blue eyes, but she doesn’t seem like she has an ulterior motive. “It’s a need-to-know thing. And right now, you don’t need-to-know.”

She grumbles, but I turn back to Harper and release her mouth, sliding my hand into her hair.

Her nose wrinkles. “You didn’t shower?”

“I thought the worst had happened.” I rub the side of her lips with my thumb.

Her eyes soften. “Where are the others?”

“Practice.” Though they are probably wondering why I left in a hurry. “Your mom, huh?”

Harper grins. “She’s going to see about staying with a friend. I’ll have to go with her.”

“Another friend?” Who exactly is Jennifer Davidson? I don’t think we ever really did a background check on her. Half the shit she does probably isn’t public record though. Especially her helping the women out of trafficking. But everyone leaves something behind for us to find.

“I don’t know who.” Harper glances over at Kenz, who also shrugs.

“There’s no room for both of you at my house.” Kenz glances at me. “Harper mentioned you guys have a way to detect listening devices?”

I nod once.

Her cheeks flush with color. “Could you check my car? I really don’t want someone hearing me and Brandon going at it in the backseat.”

I smirk and shake my head. “Yeah, we can look it over. I’ll ask Caden to bring it to Nico’s.”

Kenz grins. “Good, because it’s really hard to be quiet sometimes.”

Harper leans her head against my chest as her shoulders shake with laughter.

“Shall we?” I gesture toward where our cars are parked. Kenz leads the way.

I wait a second and tip Harper’s chin up so her eyes meet mine. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah. I don’t know how this will all play out, but my mom said I’d be good with wherever we end up.” Harper shrugs. “I trust her. She’s my mom.”

“Luke might show up in your bed still.” I arch an eyebrow.

A little shiver goes through her, and her smile is a little wicked. “I don’t mind. We still need to have our night together with Jack.”

“First Luke needs to handle Sidney tonight.”

CHAPTER 18

Readiness Check

Luke

I stand in Nico’s bedroom as Harper and MacKenzie explain what happened after school. Where they went and what exactly they did. I’m angry but my anger isn’t directed at them.

My glare lingers on Eli for deciding to tackle this on his own. He yelled at me for doing the same shit with Zach’s house. This would have been far worse than anything that could have happened to me.

Eli huffs out a breath. His dark eyes meet mine. “Look. Coach wouldn’t have let us all go, and it would have alerted whatever disloyal prick that’s on the football team something is happening, which we also don’t want to do. So quit giving me the murder glare.”

“We can’t go off on our own.” It’s as simple as that.

“Yeah, well, I didn’t.” Eli rubs his hands together almost self-consciously. “I had Nico on with me the whole time.”