No Lucky Number: Secrets Of Stone: Book Five by ANGEL PAYNE & VICTORIA BLUE

Author:ANGEL PAYNE & VICTORIA BLUE [PAYNE, ANGEL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-947222-74-8
Publisher: Waterhouse Press

“I’m going to get a soda. Be right back to help with cleanup.”

I grabbed my purse from under the table and hightailed it out of the convention center. The show had been a major success. We’d given at least five interviews to top magazines and all of our samples were gone. The brand had been well received, and once people had started buzzing around the booth, the vibe about SGC Cosmetics had been palpable.

Mission accomplished.

Now it was time for me to get out of Dodge.

By the time they figured out what had happened, I’d be airborne.

I was frantically packing my bag in my bedroom when I heard the door to the suite open so hard it slammed against the interior wall.

“Talia!” Drake’s voice echoed through the entire suite.

Scary didn’t begin to describe it. I think my knees audibly knocked. Holy shit, he was pissed.

“Where the fuck is she?” Fletcher’s grumble wasn’t any more forgiving.

“Check her room.”

Within seconds, Fletcher filled the doorway. I froze, suitcase in my hand, feeling like Sylvester the cat with Tweety’s feathers drifting from my mouth. Only, Fletcher Ford was no cute little Granny. He was huge, furious and thoroughly set on not moving.

“Please,” I whispered, though meaning to shout. “Just let me go.”

His cobalt glare implied his refusal. “Why?” he bellowed. “Why are you running from us?”

Drake joined Fletch in the doorway. If the escape path hadn’t been blocked before, it sure as hell was now.

“How did you know I left?” And why was that was my immediate question?

“You don’t drink soda,” Drake answered blandly.

I saw the no-nonsense Marine side of the man now. “What?”

“You said you were going to get a soda. You never drink soda.”

I dropped my luggage. “Well… hell.”

“We would’ve known, no matter what.” Fletcher stepped into the room, putting his hand on his hips as he walked. “We know you, Tolly.”

“Just as we knew what was going on with you all damn day,” Drake added. “We were watching. You don’t think we were, but we saw it all. You put on an amazing act like nothing was bothering you, but we knew it was just that. An act.” He shifted closer, as well. “Talia…talk to us. Is this because of Janelle? Because she’s —”

“I swear, if you say she’s nothing, that what you did with her was nothing, I will knee you both in the balls.”

Drake’s lips twisted. “Baby, please.”

“Fuck that! Baby, please.” I mocked his tone. “Fuck you both!”

At once I slapped my hand over my mouth. I rarely—make that never—used profanity. Now, I’d yelled it at the top of my lungs. The men’s stares grew cautious. They weren’t used to hysterical women, I could guarantee that little factoid. No. They were used to soft, compliant, horny women. Right now, I was like a wild escaped bear and they were the rookie zookeepers tasked with rounding me up. Poor, poor boys. Not.

“Okay, you’re overreacting.” Fletcher squared his shoulders. “Do we have pasts? Yes, we do. Have we slept with other women? Yes, we have.

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