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“You sound like Izzy.”

“Well, she’s a smart woman.”

“Yeah, she’s been very helpful with this new discovery. Hades wants to take me to Crestview.”

“Are you going to go?”

“Yeah. Hades will help keep me safe and I need to take a break. I just…I know Vesper and Widow won’t like it, but it’s not up to them. I like her a lot and it doesn’t matter that our families hate each other.”

“This sounds like Romeo and Juliet.”

I rolled my eyes. The comparison was adequate, but I didn’t want the ending to happen. “Yeah, well what about you?” I looked at the woman in the doorway. “Tell me this baddie is yours?”

“Yeah, this is Cassandra. She is possibly one of the greatest things that happened to me.”

Babs had some serious taste, because this woman was a curvaceous Amazonian goddess. “Cass, this is my best friend, my soul sister, my platonic soulmate Rory.”

“Hey, nice to meet you.”

“Sorry for the shitty circumstances. I promise I’m not this moody all the time. Do you want to meet Hades?”

Babs nodded. “Hell yeah.”

Sweet baby Jesus there was a fire and I needed to be rescued, because holy fuck the women I was entranced with were hotter than sin and I was ready to burn. My pulse thumped in my ears and desire went straight to my pussy. Fuck having Babs meet Hades. I was about to strip naked, press myself between them, and go for a fucking ride.

I felt like I was watching the opening scene for a raunchy porno with how lustfully they looked at each other. Sweat caught the light on their skin and their breathing filled the air. Heavy breathing, sweaty bodies…oh lord, I needed to look away, but I was drooling. Could anyone blame me?

Hades looked at me and Vesper went in, tripping her and pinning her to the mat. Vesper’s face was close to Hades’s, and to say I didn’t want to watch them make out would be a lie, because holy hell that was the hottest thing I’d witnessed in a long time.

“You’re literally drooling.” Babs laughed, snapping me from my vivid fantasy as I looked at her with a wide, shit-eating grin.

“Can you blame me?” I looked back at my women who finally moved back to a standing position. “I wanna join. Only can we have less clothes?”

Hades claimed my lips in a searing kiss that stole the air from my lungs as she pulled me into her. She deepened the kiss with urgency and eagerness, ignoring the others in the room. This was one hell of a kiss, and now I needed to get my woman naked and in my bed to cure the throbbing desire between my legs. After the show she and Vesper gave me, I would invite Vesper if all she wanted to do was watch.

“Hey, babe,” Babs called out. “That’s how babies are made.”

I pulled away and laughed as I tucked my face into Hades’s neck. “I am down for baby-making practice.” The sound of her laugh was pure temptation, and I was ready for practice.

Babs’s phone vibrated, and she read the incoming text as I turned to face her with Hades’s hand in mine. Her demeanor changed, and I saw the tremble in her hand. Something was wrong, and I would make her tell me.

“What’s going on?”

“Nothing. I am perfectly fine.” Her nose crinkled like it always did when she was lying.

I arched my brow. “You were a shitty liar before pregnancy, and Bean made you worse. I didn’t think it was possible. I’ll ask you again: what’s wrong?”

Cass grabbed her other hand, giving her a nudge before Babs handed me her phone. Babs tucked herself into Cassandra as I read the text thread from an unknown number that threatened her and her child. “Who the fuck is this? And how long has it been going on?”

“Since I found out I was pregnant. I can’t find them, and I’m scared. You know me, I’m never scared, but I have a life growing inside me. I don’t want to endanger her.”

“Her?”

“Mommy’s intuition. She's a girl. At least for now. I don’t need her to be taken from me, but I also don’t want to die or be gang-raped. They can be pretty graphic. I told Cass to stay away from me so she wouldn’t get hurt, but she’s stubborn.”

Cass and I made eye contact. “I’m not leaving her, so don’t give me that look,” she deadpanned.

“I like her.” I laughed as Vesper made it to me. “You are a Viper. Vipers keep each other safe, especially from assholes who threaten women and their babies.”