“No. She won’t take any calls. I don’t blame her. Her husband shouldn’t have been there.”
“I still can’t believe he’s gone. I thought he was finished working for the government.”
“So did I. Word is, he was doing some things he shouldn’t have been doing.”
“Like what?”
“That’s what I’m trying to find out. I don’t like the connections the guys are coming up with thus far. It seems Viper’s loyalties may have strayed.”
“Where?” Flynn asked.
“To the dark side. You’d better get dressed. There’s things to go over. Adelina left you some papers for you to sign and an order to recheck before she submits it tonight.”
“She’s a lifesaver.” Flynn felt his gut clench. She was more than that. She was everything they both wanted, but feared they could corrupt and hurt. She was too good for them. Way too good.
Jett locked gazes with Flynn. He didn’t say what was on his mind. He and Flynn both were attracted to Adelina but neither would make a move. Not when they continued to act like a bunch of twenty-year-old bachelors with no care in the world and no desire to make a commitment to one woman. Adelina was special. So much so that neither man would allow themselves to act on their attraction to her.
“She’s a gem. She really cares about us. Murph said that you argued with her when the bar closed, and that Tess tried to connive her way up here with you. She had her hand down your pants and said something to Adelina that really pissed her off,” Jett stated and then took a sip of coffee.
Flynn stood up and drank the orange concoction. He gagged and then coughed, and quickly swallowed the water with the three pills. Jett chuckled.
“What do you think Tess said to her?” Jett asked as he thought about the redhead who was constantly trying to get him in bed. He allowed her to suck him down one night, but then he and Flynn got a call from an old friend in need of some help and he had to cut the night short. Tess wasn’t too pleased.
“I don’t know. Murph was sworn to secrecy,” Jett stated, as he glared at Flynn.
“Why are you looking at me like that? I don’t remember shit about last night.”
“Drinking a shitload of tequila will do that to you.”
“I was trying to drink things off my mind.”
“Don’t you mean Adelina?”
“We’ve been over this, Jett. We decided that we aren’t right for her. She needs a man that can be sweet and understanding. We’re hard. We have a sexual appetite and a need for dominance in the bedroom. We both want to share her, and she’s old school. Dates, movie night, shit like that. Can you see her tied up on the bed and allowing us to have our way with her body?”
Jett snickered then shook his head. “You don’t get it. Flynn, she’s tough, yes, and she’s independent, but she’s also the sexiest woman we’ve both ever known. She has a submissive side, and we’ve both noticed it.”
“She does what we say because we’re her bosses and she knows damn well she better.”
“Stop being like that.”
“Being like what?” Flynn asked as he walked over toward the doorway. He needed a shower and a change of clothes.
He was certain that a new set of clothes were laid out for him in the closet near the bathroom, and that Adelina would have set everything he might need up in the bathroom. She knew him and Flynn better than anyone.
“I’m not arguing with you about this now. I’m just saying that I’m getting tired of the no-strings-attached sex. I’m tired of not having someone aside from you to come home to. Living this life, at this pace and in this type of constant club atmosphere is killing me. We’re getting old, Flynn.”
“Fuck that. We’re thirty-four years old.”
“I’m not going to settle. We keep up this pace, this lifestyle, and no decent woman will want to look at either of us.”
“Holy shit, what the hell happened to you in the last twenty-four hours?”
Jett stared at Flynn, lowered his eyes, and then looked back up. He looked angry and concerned.
“We’ll talk after your shower and after Adelina’s special remedy helps clear your head.”
Flynn headed toward the bathroom, and found everything as he expected. Adelina took care of it all for him. She even had his cologne, razor, shaving cream, and favorite black robe set up with towels for him. He wondered if she had feelings for him and Jett. He would catch her watching them every now and then, and she always came along with them when they attended a barbecue with their friends and their friend’s women. Those times, more recently, made him want things he thought he could live without. A family, a woman to call his and Flynn’s. But every time he felt a bit of happiness or confidence toward having that bond with someone, the fear hit him.