Keen Inclination by Abby Blake

Author:Abby Blake
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book/Menage
Published: 2011-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

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Lachlan cursed at the latest proximity alarm. Now the bastards were landing in the dark as well. It didn’t matter that he wasn’t asleep or that they had night-vision equipment. It still pissed him off that they’d even think of trespassing in the middle of the fucking night.

He was halfway to the communications room when Ryan, Ty, and Bryce met him in the hallway. “We’ve got this one,” Ty said with his usual trademark smile.

“You can answer the subspace

communicator.”

Now that he was close enough, Lachlan could hear the insistent buzzing noise. He glanced back at his brothers, but they were almost at the end of the hall before it occurred to Lachlan that if it had been Mikayla, they wouldn’t have been so keen to hand over the task.

When he saw the ID code, he wanted to run in the opposite direction, too. As much as he loved his mother, she could be a royal pain in the ass when something was on her mind.

“Hi, Mom,” he said, trying not to sound anything but neutral. The woman’s talent for reading body language was as freaky as his own, and he knew any sign of weakness would lead to a lecture on whatever subject took her fancy.

“Lachlan, you look tired,” she began without preamble. He tried not to roll his eyes in irritation. Their parents were all well aware of the situation they were dealing with, so his mom should know exactly why he seemed tired.

“What’s up, Mom?” he asked, trying not to sound exasperated. If she’d just get to the point, he’d be able to deal with whatever disaster she wanted him to handle and then he could go back to bed.

“I met a lovely young lady today,” she said casually. She’d started many a conversation with the exact same opening line when she’d Keen Inclination

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been trying to set him up on a date. Had she forgotten he was married now? He raised an eyebrow, letting his irritation leak into his body language. She noticed.

“Well anyway, she said she was Peter’s fiancée and—” Lachlan cut off her words. “Is she still there?” His mother looked a little alarmed at his vehemence but shook her head. “We just wondered what was going on. Your fathers reckon Peter would never marry anyone besides Mikayla, but Sandra and I were wondering if maybe you’d finally reconsidered. I mean, with Mikayla’s miscarriage, it makes sense that you would take on a few extra wives to complete your family.” She took a deep breath but started talking again before Lachlan could get his temper under control enough to set his mother straight.

“You know, none of you are getting any younger, and Sandra and I didn’t birth eight sons between us just to end up with no grandchildren.” She folded her arms, and he sensed her deliberate attempt to intimidate him into silence. It may have worked when he was seven, but she seemed to have forgotten he was a grown man.

“First of all,” he said, but she went to cut him off.

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