Warrior's Wife by Evanne Lorraine

Author:Evanne Lorraine [Lorraine, Evanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: erotica
ISBN: 9781419943935
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-01-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Marcus pursed his lips to whistle, checked Gideon’s scowl and reconsidered the tunes. He lowered his voice and leaned to include Horace. “Shouldn’t we be working on Tori’s birthday?”

Seconds ticked by. Gideon’s jaw clenched and his crossed arms rippled with tension. Aside from his usual signs of mech frustration, the team leader didn’t respond to the hints he’d tossed out. Not a good sign. Given the boss spent the last couple of hours with the most beautiful, fantastic woman ever, not a good sign didn’t begin to cover it.

“Tomorrow is the big day. We’re still going to wow her, right?” Horace added a brave prompt.

“Yeah, we’ll make her birthday special.” Gideon made a visible effort to lighten up. He uncrossed his arms, stretched and popped his back before lightly punching Horace’s shoulder. “I have everything for a traditional end-of-days-era prime-rib dinner.”

Relieved by Gideon’s new attitude, Marcus tipped the kitchen chair back on two legs. “What about a cake?”

The triad’s leader frowned in concentration. “Of course it’ll be chocolate. Reine de Saba is delicious, but I’m leaning toward Gateau au Chocolat, rich, delicious, yet light. I hope the eggs are fresh enough.”

“Been meaning to ask, who do we owe for all this?” Marcus waved to indicate the well-stocked pantry, refrigerator and freezer.

“I made lists and supplied the grunt labor. Nigel handled material delivery.”

“Don’t act as if what you did doesn’t count. You made this place safe and clean and amazing and wiped out half your neural net and the mind link. You’re lucky you didn’t rack up more serious cellular damage,” Horace scolded.

“Yeah, sure.” Gideon’s brow lowered. “See what’s keeping her, pal.”

After Horace left the kitchen, Marcus asked, “Why send Horace? You should go.”

“She’s not happy with me.”

“All the more reason to get your ass in front of her and work it out.”

“Easy for you to say,” Gideon grumbled.

“What went wrong? Dominance didn’t work for her?”

Gideon crossed his arms. “Nah, she liked that fine. I told her more than I should’ve about the classes. Hell, I thought she’d be flattered.” The boss ground his molars and stared into the middle distance. “Not so much.”

Marcus scowled with his boss in pointless sympathy ’cause Gideon wasn’t focusing on anything except brooding. “Exactly what’d you say?”

“Just that we’d studied her emails, journal, blah, blah.”

“She ripped your head off, huh?”

“Pretty much.” Gideon met his eyes for a second then flickered back to blaming-himself territory.

“Which makes you even crazier for her.”

“Yeah, that fits.” His boss rubbed his slick skull with guilty-as-charged painted over his mug.

He squeezed his leader’s thick arm. “She’ll calm down. You’ll grovel. Hell, Horace and I’ll grovel with you. It’ll be all good.”

Horace popped back in a couple of shades paler. “I’m not so sure. She’s not here.”

“What do you mean?” Gideon snapped to attention.

“She’s not in the house. The droid is gone too.”

Marcus wiped the nervous sweat from his hands. “No one got past me. How’d they get her?”

“She must’ve slipped out.” Horace’s face darkened into a scowl.

Marcus started to deny the possibility, changed his mind and sealed his calorie hole.

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