Shamelessly Loyal (Bay Ridge Royals Book 1) by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Eight

MILO

I hated the dress the minute she walked out in it. The silk draped her like it had been painted on. At the same time, I wasn’t sure even Rome’s artistic talent could have done Mayhem justice. She looked like something out of the sexiest fairytale I could imagine.

Not Cinderella, because she certainly didn’t need to find a prince or be rescued. No, she was like the good version of the Evil Queen or maybe the good witch. Either way, I wanted her out of the dress and not going down to a roomful of strangers who would admire her glorious curves.

Her walk across the room treated me to a sensuous promise of that silk gliding over her skin. How she managed to keep the strips over her breasts without even a hint of peek-a-boo killed and thrilled me.

"Come on, Pretty Boy,” she invited, holding out one beautifully manicured hand. “Let’s go find your guy.”

Irritation vied with anticipation to scrape along the inside of my skin. “He’s not my guy.” While not quite a snap, it came out a snarl.

“Yes, dear,” she murmured, tapping my hand. “Give me your arm.”

“Why?” Everything about this irked me. I did not want her going out looking so fucking edible. That dress begged to be peeled off, and I was going to be beating a lot of assholes senseless if they looked at her the wrong way.

“Okay,” she said, lowering her arm and planting that offered hand on her hip. “Let’s get this out of the way, Pretty Boy. You said finding this man was important. You didn’t want to pull O’Connell from getting Em—a move I respect—so you need to do this yourself. We’re here, like it or not, we’re here. If your lead is right, then you get a chance to look at this person you’ve been hunting or who has been hunting you.”

Reasonable as she made it sound, I didn’t like using her.

“Now, currently, you’re wrestling with the moralistic part of your conscience. Congratulations on still possessing that, by the way. But we’re here. Both of us. I have every intention of helping you, and you can use my help. And if it turns out to be nothing, that the lead was wrong—well, what’s the worst that happens, Pretty Boy? You spend an evening playing with me?”

Despite seeming to suggest the asking of a question, there was something far more playful that turned it into an invitation. An invitation I was far too eager to accept. From the tilt of her head to the curve of her lips, she exuded a kind of controlled competence.

“An evening with you isn’t the problem, Mayhem,” I told her. “If anything, an evening with you would be amazing.”

It was the bald truth, and she deserved to hear it.

“The issue, though, is I don’t know all the players in this game. We might not find anything. We might find everything. Worse… we might see nothing, but they see you with me and…” Too many people I cared about had been targets already.

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