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Knox was glad Ren was on Tenley’s side.
“You don’t look like a hacker,” Knox observed.
Ren frowned at him. Aggressively, of course. “You don’t look like a dude who would let his girlfriend get kidnapped off his own damn porch. But here we are.”
Rude. Again. And also… “You’re not wrong. I’ll do better going forward.”
And he would. Because after this, he wasn’t sure he’d ever let Tenley out of his sight again. She’d just have to get used to him being glued to her side 24/7.
Ren snorted, and Tenley shot him an admonishing look. “Be nice, Ren.”
“That was me being nice.”
The guy looked like he could kill him twelve different ways with his pinky, he was rude and sarcastic, and Knox still liked him because he was the closest thing to family Tenley had. “It’s fine,” he whispered to Tenley. “You had to deal with my stepbrother. I can deal with your friend.”
Ren snapped on a pair of surgical gloves and gave Jordan a dispassionate once over. “Speaking of dealing with shit…what do you want me to do with him, Tenley?”
She frowned thoughtfully. “What do you recommend?”
“I have lye, and I saw a firepit out back.”
Knox blinked a couple times before saying, “His chest is moving. I think he’s still alive.”
He shrugged. “The lye won’t care.”
Wow. Just…wow.
Tenley shook her head. “Nah. I don’t think that’s necessary. What do you have that gets him out of the way but doesn’t involve dissolving his body?”
Ren looked a little bummed out at the prospect of a less violently permanent option. “If Jordan were to cross the border with, say, drugs or illegal firearms on him, the federales in Mexico would be very unhappy. I’m betting he’d be tossed into a cell to rot for a good long time.”
“Does Jordan have access to drugs and or illegal firearms?” Tenley asked carefully.
Ren looked her dead in the eye and smiled the coldest, scariest smile Knox had ever seen. “Jordan has access to things you could never imagine.”
She nodded and looped her arm through Knox’s. “OK, then. Would you mind terribly if we excused ourselves and let you do…your thing? We have a board meeting to crash.”
He waved her off. “Yeah, yeah. Go. I got this.”
They were almost out the door when Ren said, “Tenley?”
“Yeah?”
“Are you happy?”
Knox glanced down in time to see Tenley’s smile, which was brighter than the fucking sun and made him weak in the knees. “I am, Ren. Really happy.”
While Knox’s heart was practically vibrating in his chest with joy, Ren nodded stoically and said, “I’ll add him to my list.”
Tenley put a hand over her heart, tears in her eyes, as she told him, “Thank you.”
He waved her off again so he could get to work. It wasn’t until they stepped into the car that Knox asked, “What did he mean when he said he’d put me on his list?”
“Oh, it means that you’re now on his list of people that he’ll watch out for from now on.”
More blinking. “You mean he’s added me to his ‘people to stalk’ list?”
“Yes. Trust me…it’s a good list to be on.”
