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Of course, we didn’t find out until a couple weeks later that Kent’s brother had gotten away. Motherfucker had slipped from Kent’s compound during the chaos unseen.

Cash, the hacker for Sovereign Sanctum, another crew similar to ours down in Moonlit Ridge, and one of our closest confidants and friends, had discovered Shayne Ellison wasn’t a part of the body count and sent us the warning.

My phone buzzed in my hand, and I tipped my attention to the returned text.

Silas

The fuck does that mean?

My teeth ground.

Me

Means when we got back from the store this evening, there was an unmarked box sitting at her door. An hourglass was inside.

Brody

What the fuck is an hourglass? Tell me you aren’t talking about my sister’s figure.

Only fucking Brody.

Dude was always playing it light. Goofing and joking. Cocky to the extreme, but it wasn’t like he was gonna turn out any other way with the way women fell all over themselves the second he walked into a room.

He couldn’t be serious for one fucking second.

That was until shit got real at the club and we descended in a blood bath.

Dude was every bit as vicious as the rest of us.

I had always loved the hell out of him.

Considered him a brother.

But what I didn’t need right then was him putting any extra thoughts into my mind.

The ones that were already there were bad enough.

The vision of Elena standing over me when I’d been kneeling in front of her outside the breakroom was enough to send me into a tailspin.

Woman so fucking gorgeous, wearing that dress. Legs bare as I’d massaged the back of her thigh. Worst was the way the tremulous breath had slipped from between her plush lips while I did. Way her eyes had gone dark and the oxygen in the air had nearly caught fire.

Same way as it’d done two minutes ago inside her apartment.

I did not need to be thinking about her figure. This was no time for distractions.

Me

Are you serious? You don’t know what it is, look it up.

Brody didn’t have time to respond before another text came in from Silas.

Silas

Details.

I paced the other direction, contemplating, trying to put a pin on what was going down.

Me