Hot Mess (An Iron Tornadoes MC Romance Book 5) by Olivia Rigal

Author:Olivia Rigal [Rigal, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lady O Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-06-13T22:00:00+00:00

13

"Everest has the hots for you," he says. "Actually I think it's more serious than that." He sighs looking very happy with himself. "At least a bad case of lust at first sight."

Kristal turns a nice shade of crimson and tilts her head to look at me just in times to watch me roll my eyes at Ice. My brother ignores me and keeps on observing our guest. She's surprised, but clearly not in a bad way.

Fuck. I have to stop thinking about the fact that the attraction is mutual. My judgement is clouded enough as it is. And anyway, at this point, I can't do anything about it. Well, nothing more than protect her.

Kristal raises a pacifying hand to put a stop to that line of discussion, demonstrating that she understands that all the reasons I have for helping her are not really that relevant. Whatever they are, she's accepted the fact I'm in charge and is now being practical.

"So what's the plan?" she asks.

Damned if I have a complete one. I do have a few ideas, but nothing I could run and present to my captain. For now, the only thing I'm certain of is that I will keep her safe while I finish figuring it out.

"Are you going to keep her here?" Ice asks.

"Do you have another suggestion?"

"Nah. But we're opened tonight, so you'll have to put her upstairs, in your place. She can wait there while we do more digging. Sure beats the station's cells."

Kristal shuffles in her seat clearly uncomfortable about the fact that we're talking about her as she wasn't here.

"Do I have a choice?" she asks.

"Nope." Ice and I answer in perfect unison.

She decides to take it with good humor.

"I'm not about to complain," she says. "This place is certainly more comfortable that your local jail."

"The local facility doesn't have a pool, I'm afraid."

My mentioning the water makes Kristal smile again.

"You know what would be really nice? If that's okay with you, I could get my bathing suit and take advantage of the pool."

"I'm not sure."

"Why?" Ice asks. "Her car's in the garage. Getting the bag is no problem."

Watching my expression, Ice understands where my mind has gone. With his best poker face on, he observes, "But then again, if there's no one around but you, she doesn't really need a bathing suit, does she?"

Kristal opens and closes her mouth like a fish out of water. I watch her search for something to say for a few seconds and then I let her off the hook. I don't want to push her boundaries too far. Well, not yet, anyway. I laugh and shrug.

"No worries, you'll get you your bag."

She lets out a sigh of relief and relaxes enough to study Ice's face. Some people see a physical resemblance between us, but objectively, I know it's not there. That doesn't mean we don't have a lot in common. We do. We both have picked up gestures and expressions from our father. Also, but I guess that's not readily visible, we share the same values and trust each other blindly.

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