Page 74 of Venomous as a Snake

“Drive around. I’ll walk Pimp and Hooker between the fences.”

Collin nods. “I’ll stay with her.”

“Call Walker,” Forrest orders the kangaroo.

“When we get inside,” I respond. “I’ll call him.”

When Drew’s and Walker’s phones ping at the same time as mine, I know it’s Kody.

Blondie: Call me.

Blondie: Now.

Blondie: Please.

I frown as I call her, putting it on speakerphone. “What’s wrong?”

“He was in my fucking house,” she states, too calm for my comfort.

Drew swerves the Jeep, and I bump my head on the window.

“Are you okay?” Walker asks.

“Fine,” I reply, grinning to aggravate him.

“Oh, yeah,” Kody answers him. “I have a tracker sticking to my ass, and Pimp has decided he likes Drew’s bed. Hooker is stalking the front door, and Collin has ice on his knuckles. And poor Carol is stuck in a tote again.”

Walker shakes his head. “That’s a lot of information, Blondie. Where is Forrest?”

“Here,” the rhino rumbles in the background.

“Why is there a tracker in your ass?” Drew inquires, chuckling.

“On,” she repeats loudly. “It’s on my ass because Forrest is a quick thinker.”

I glance at Walker, and he shrugs. “What does that have to do with Forrest being a quick thinker?”

“He put it there,” she tells me.

“Forrest put a tracker in your ass?” Drew asks, grinning like a fucking idiot.

“On,” she yells at him.

“Right. Okay.” Walker nods as if she can see him. “We get it. Why is there ice on Collin’s knuckles?”

Kody sighs. “Because he knocked Clay out in my living room.”

“Why didn’t you just kill him then?” the croc queries, scratching his head.

“If you look at the security feed, you’ll see my house is crawling with minions. He was stalling us while waiting for them to show up. We left as soon as he hit the floor.”

“They followed Kody and Collin’s scent to our house, too,” Forrest interjects. “So far as I can see, they haven’t made it inside, though.”

“Fuck,” Walker mutters.

I squeeze my temples, trying to work out the immediate problems. “You’re at our house?”

“Yes,” Collin answers while Kody and Forrest mumble to each other in the background.