A Mate for the Alpha and His Brothers [The Cat Burglars 4] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Cara Adams

Author:Cara Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Published: 2015-04-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Elsie was sitting in the back row of the minivan, Amory’s chess set on a lap table between her and JJ, and they were paying chess. She’d taught him how to play when he was very young, just six, and although he was still unable to beat her, she seldom allowed him more than a single pawn as a handicap now. They hadn’t played for a while because she’d sold her chess set, but they were both enjoying this game, and he was remembering his old skills really fast.

“You’re getting too good, Jay. From now on, no handicaps for you.”

“Bullshit, El. At least let me win a few matches before you reclaim your pawn.”

“You can win now if you’re clever.”

“I can?”

She smiled as he frowned over the chessboard. Brayden turned around in the seat in front of them and leaned his chin on the back of the chair as he stared at the board. After about five minutes silence, he said, “Okay, I give up. How?”

“Like this,” said JJ, moving his knight.

“Well done.” Elsie moved a pawn, but unless JJ was clumsy, he had her in checkmate now.

He crowed with laughter as he made the final move. “Yee haw! The first time ever I’ve beaten her!”

“Would you have won if Elsie hadn’t said you could?” asked Amory.

JJ frowned and stared at the chessboard. Elsie waited patiently. He was a good kid. Life had been really hard for him, much harder than for her. He’d never known their father. LC Senior wouldn’t have won any prizes as the best dad, but at least he’d been there mostly when she was a small child. He’d pretty much ignored her, but she did have some memories of sitting on his knee and once of him giving her a princess tiara for her birthday. She’d been six, or maybe seven. He’d also sat by her bed and read her a story one time when she was recovering from some childhood ailment and had been awake late at night, unable to sleep. So, she supposed, in his own selfish way, he had cared about her.

Whereas he hadn’t even stuck around long enough to find out the new baby was going to be the son he’d always wanted.

JJ spoke slowly and thoughtfully as he answered Amory’s question. “I might not. I hadn’t seen that move. But I had been looking at moving the knight, so maybe. I’d seen that her king was vulnerable, but she’s damn good at escaping from my plots.”

“She’s good at escaping from everyone’s plots,” said Amory. But Elsie thought he sounded happy with JJ’s honest answer.

They’d been in the minivan moving steadily north for hours now. Elsie had no way of knowing the time, as she had no watch and her pre-paid cell phone was back at the panther headquarters. She’d only used it to put the number on her resume in case someone wanted to interview her for a job and hadn’t even bought a charger for it. When the

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