Lib Novel Page 110
“I’ve got you, kitten.” Noah draws me upright. Coop wipes my face with a washcloth, taking his time to clean every inch. He steps away and Blake hands me a glass of water.
“That song.” My throat is raw and my voice raspy.
“Hozier.” Coop leans against the bar, watching me closely. “Pretty sure it’s a song called ‘Talk.’ It was on his album a few years ago. Does it mean anything to you, sweetheart?”
I drink the water, thinking. “I had that album and listened to it my first year in college. But it doesn’t have any significance that I can remember.”
“Maybe a dance or something?” Noah brushes my hair out of my face.
Shaking my head, I scrunch my forehead. “I didn’t have time to go to dances. I was too busy studying, working, and going to class.”
Setting the glass down, I walk into the bathroom and brush my teeth. It’s easiest to focus on that song. Not on what my stalker wants me to think about. He was careful with his DNA. None of it touched the dress. Careful to only show his gloved hand.
Was that him in the stairwell or another person sent to do his bidding?
When I walk back into the bedroom, the guys sit on the edge of the bed, waiting. Blake holds out his hand and I go to him, sitting between him and Seth and leaning my head against Blake’s shoulder.
“This stalker uses other people to get what he wants. Valerie, Jimi, Robert. What if the guy who attacked me today was just another stand-in?” My chest rises and falls as I draw in their presence, letting their warmth chase away the chill in my bones.
“That makes sense. But who would he use this time? Someone who has access to our building.” Blake wraps his arm around my waist and pulls me tighter against him.
My heart flutters.
“It could be an employee. Someone we wouldn’t have noticed going in and out of the building.” Seth slips his hand into mine, tangling our arms together. “Someone Yvonne would give the key card to.”
“Or someone who knew where the key card was.” Noah lets out a rough breath.
“Someone like Fox? A guy who’s been up to the apartment.” I scrunch my nose. “He apparently had sex a lot with Andrea up there. And he was just there.”
“I’ll check into him.” Blake rubs my arm. “There are too many possibilities.”
“I vote we just disappear for a few months. We can take my private jet.” Coop stands and paces in front of us. “Fuck like bunnies on a tropical island.”
“This guy has lain in wait for a while now to get her.” Noah shakes his head. “Disappearing will only make him more desperate. The question I can’t get past is, he’s waited years for her, so why now?”
“She didn’t even know she had a stalker until she started working for us.” Blake’s thumb rubs up and down my side almost absent-mindedly.
“We didn’t know someone was working against us until she started working for us either.” Seth brings my hand to his lips and presses a kiss there while he thinks. “We know they were probably working separately, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know about each other now.”
“We won’t figure it out tonight.” Noah stands and takes off his shirt. “We need to rest.”
My gaze takes him in as his blond hair falls over his eyes while he slips his pants and socks off until he’s only in his boxers. Noah is the leanest of my guys, but he works out. His muscles are clearly defined, but he doesn’t work to make his body a masterpiece like Coop. Just enough to stay fit and healthy.
I wet my lips.
He turns his knowing brown eyes on me. “We need to rest and go to work in the morning.”
I don’t know if I’ll sleep tonight with that video running rampant through my brain. That portion of the song stuck on repeat. I don’t want to play the full song for fear of what message the lyrics might contain.
Blake lifts me onto his lap, startling me. His green eyes search mine as I feel him harden beneath me. I bite my lip as tingles race through my blood.
“You look like you need a distraction, tiger.” He strokes my hair out of my face.
The others move behind me and anticipation trickles down my back. “Yes, Daddy.”
Blake smirks as he grips the back of my neck. “Good girl.”
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