Wicked as Secrets (Matt & Madison, Part One) (Wicked Lovers: Soldiers For Hire Book 7) by Shayla Black

Author:Shayla Black [Black, Shayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-15T18:30:00+00:00

By two o’clock that afternoon, the air was as still and humid as the fat ass of a pig lazing in the sun. And everyone Matt needed to talk to was having a fucking barbecue to celebrate the holiday, along with a “family” birthday bash for Luc and Alyssa Traverson’s daughter, Chloe, who was turning eight.

After squaring his cowboy hat on his head, he pushed his way from the house to the backyard and took in the brisket smoking, the tunes playing, the kids romping, and the beers chilling. There was no place he wanted to be at less than a celebration with happy couples and their adorable kids. It reminded him of what he didn’t have—and never would.

The famous chef and his drop-dead gorgeous wife stood in the center of the group, watching their little pale-haired princess in her birthday crown. Beside them, Luc’s cousin, Deke Trenton, who co-owned Oracle Security, hung close to his business partner, Jack Cole. Deke’s and Jack’s wives stood with their heads bent close—hair in two different shades of red—smiling in delight as they watched Chloe unwrap another gift.

Nearby stood Matt’s bosses and the owners of EM Security Management, Logan and Hunter Edgington, along with their stepbrother, Joaquin Muñoz. There was nothing weirder to Matt than seeing the trio of badasses he worked for—who could defuse a bomb as easily as they slit an enemy combatant’s throat—schlepping baby equipment and reining in little curtain climbers.

Hunter wrangled his squirmy two-year-old, Ledger, while scolding his older boy, Phoenix, about trying to force-feed the other kids bugs. Logan’s twins, Mandy and Macy, were a few months older than their insect-wielding cousin, but they were definitely louder, squealing bloody murder as they ran. Logan bent to calm them, a backpack full of plushies and Barbies falling off one shoulder, while his very pregnant wife, Tara, looked on with mirth. Joaquin had been late to the marriage-and-babies party, but he and his former ballerina bride, Bailey, seemed to be making up for lost time since he held his toddler, Eduardo, by the hand and wore an infant carrier across his chest with his newborn, Yasmin.

Around them, all the other kids ran and splashed and hollered in barely organized pandemonium. Deke and Kimber’s oldest, Cal, stood head and shoulders taller than the birthday girl and glared at the oldest of Tyler and Delaney Murphy’s five-boy brood. Seth, who had inherited his dad’s green eyes and the Murphy chin, glared right back.

The girl-posse, as the dads had dubbed them, were trying to convince the slightly younger boys that having a tea party would be great fun. Despite being four, the oldest of the little feminine dynamos, Dulce, proved she was a Santiago through and through by skillfully coaxing Blake Murphy, Ryker Walker, Knox Garrett, and Wilder Scott to sit at the plastic table. Lacey Cole plopped down on a hose reel next to them, then motioned Knox’s older sister, Hallie—who was Tessa’s spitting image—onto her lap and pretended to pour tea. Sierra Trenton smiled as she dished up mud pies.

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