Page 50 of Sly (Dragon Riders MC 5)
“Guess my sweet girl is eager this morning,” he grunted.
I kissed his shaft. “Maybe just a tad.”
But before I could get his luscious cock between my lips, a knock came at the door. Followed by a familiar voice.
“Anybody awake!?”
I paused. “Is that—”
Sly sighed. “Your brother really needs to learn some boundaries.”
A knock sounded heavily at the door. “Hey! Sly! I see your bike out here!”
I fluttered my eyes up to him. “What are the chances we could ignore him?”
Sly smiled down at me. “You know that won’t work. It never does with him.”
A loud bang rattled the front door. “I’ll pick this fucking lock!”
I stuck my head out of the shower. “Calm your fucking tits we’re in the shower, you moron!”
Sly barked with laughter. “God, I love this so much.”
I held up my hand. “Help me up. Haven’t had coffee.”
Sly got me to my feet before we turned off the water. We got out of the shower and dried off as my brother waited patiently on the porch. No matter how much I wished him away, though, I threw on clothes and walked over to the front door.
Before throwing it open and seeing my brother standing there with reddened cheeks.
“What do you want at eight in the morning?” I asked breathlessly.
Sly sounded behind me. “Hey, Chains! Come on in. I’m about to make coffee.”
Ben snickered. “I’m never getting rid of that nickname, am I?”
Sly padded into the kitchen. “Nope. Come in and shut the door. You’re letting all of the air out.”
I ushered my brother into the studio apartment and he gave me a kiss on the cheek. I shot him a feral look before a smile crept across my cheeks, then I threw my arms around his neck. The door eased closed as Ben picked me up and swung me around as if there were something to rejoice.
And after we all fixed our coffee, we sat down at the small kitchen table over by a window on the far side of the apartment.
Next to my favorite dungeon in the place.
“Don’t tell me there’s an emergency or some shit. I’ve been enjoying the quiet months,” Sly said.
My brother chuckled. “No, no, nothing like that. I wanted to come by and tell you that there’s been a last-minute amendment to Skeleton’s charges. That’s what they’re currently talking about in the judge’s chambers this morning.”
I quirked an eyebrow. “Oh? What’s going on?”
My brother grinned. “Along with however many counts of trafficking, sexual assault, illegal gambling, and a host of other minor offenses, Joanna saw fit to also add five counts of kidnapping.”
My jaw hit the floor. “You’re kidding.”
Ben shook his head. “Nope. When she went back through all of the girl’s testimonies, she realized that some of these girls hadn’t come willingly with Skeleton and his guys. Some of them were snatched right off the street and thrown into a van.”
Sly nodded slowly. “Like we witnessed.”
My head snapped over to him. “What?”
Ben held up his hand. “I don’t want to hear anymore. Gotta draw that line.”
Sly smirked. “Well, I’m glad Joanna caught it. That bastard deserves as many life sentences as we can give him.”
I sipped my coffee. “Those poor girls. I can’t even think about it without feeling sick to my stomach.”
Sly leaned forward. “Any luck tracking down some of those other girls he sold off?”
Ben leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest. “Shit you not, the one thing Skeleton was good at was keeping records. We found a treasure trove of shit some of his guys were trying to burn and when we finally got the replicated pieces back, we found not only names and addresses of the purchasers, but the legal names as well as ‘stage names’ of other girls.”
My eyes bulged. “You’re kidding.”
Ben shook his head. “Nope.”
Sly sighed. “I’m going to regret this, but how many girls?”
Ben’s face went dark. “We recovered over one hundred singular pieces of documentation. And that’s just what we could recover. Some of the documentation was burnt beyond repair.”
My eyes watered. “My God.”
Sly took my hand before Ben took my other one. And as both of the men in my life comforted me over our morning coffee, a surge of gratefulness rushed through my veins.
With these two at my side, I was the luckiest woman on the planet.
“He’s going away for a long time, Tara. You don’t need to worry,” Ben said.
Sly squeezed my hand. “And he can’t hurt you anymore. Even if there was a risk for that—which there isn’t because you’re with me—it doesn’t exist anymore.”
I shook my head. “It’s not that. It’s just—all of those girls we’ll never find. It breaks my heart.”
Ben chuckled. “I wouldn’t be too sure about that.”
I panned my gaze over to his. “What do you mean?”
He squeezed my hand. “Let’s just say that when the alphabet agencies want to join forces, they will.”
