Chapter 32
Chapter
Thirty-Two
Desiree hummed as she cleaned the dishes in the kitchen. She was home alone for a change, despite Nightshade doing a patrol and keeping an eye on the cameras.
Max was at base with his team doing some mandatory training while Jose and Tiny were at work. They had been called in for a hostage situation and ran like the gates of hell were upon them.
She’s already completed her custom order the other day and was waiting for the client to come in and pick it up in a couple of days’ time since he was out of the country on business at the moment. Same for Nightshade.
They had lunch earlier and watched some tv before she went to go and do some rounds. She nearly jumped out of her skin though when her phone rang.
“Hey, Iris. What’s up?”
“Looks like this Mutt character has been disavowed from the CIA for going off the rails. He’s been doing side wet work. We’re trying to find out who his new employer is. From what we could obtain of Daniels’s phone, Mutt is trying to get him to come to the dark side.”
“Think he’ll do it? Iris, he’s assigned to Max and Teddy’s team in Delta Force. You don’t think he would set them up for a failed mission, do you?”
“Nothing would surprise me in all honesty, Olly. You need to talk to Max about this. See what he thinks should happen. Does Daniels know you and Max are an item?” Iris asked, her voice going low.
Well damn, that wasn’t something she’d actually considered. She knew the day she showed up at Max’s office on base to deal with the detective that Daniels hadn’t been there that day.
Most of the guys had gone to lunch at that time. So, in all honesty, she didn’t know if it was known that she and Max were an item.
“I don’t know. I don’t know what Daniels knows about me and Max or that Teddy is my brother.
I’ve never talked about my family on the teams. Hell, Bradley didn’t even know I had brothers.
I never introduced him to them or to Tiny.
They probably think I’m an only child unless they’ve done their homework on me. ” Desiree admitted to Iris.
Desiree’s heart rate started to spike at the thought of Max and Teddy in danger with Daniels. But then again, she had to wonder why Daniels would even have it out for her.
She’d never done anything to Mutt or Daniels, ever. She didn’t even speak to them unless it was work related when they were dealing with an op plan or they were on an actual op and she had no other choice but to.
She’d kept her personal life private, other than that it was known she’d dated Bradley when she was a Ranger. Mutt had known about that because he’d been good friends with Bradley and had been one of the few that had riled the fucker up about having a woman in the Rangers making him less of a man.
She’d known that Mutt and Daniels thought very little of women with the way they had talked to her and how they treated women in the bar if she had gone out and they were there. She stayed away from everyone as much as possible because of the shit she’d gone through with Bradley.
She wasn’t there to bang uglies with anyone on her team, much less in the Army if she could help it. When she did have the itch, she took a rando back to his place and did the nasty and then walked away.
Hey, if men could fuck and walk, so could she. Back then, she didn’t have the time or patience for another relationship while she was in the Green Berets.
She wasn’t going to give anyone else the chance to try and talk down to her and force her to quit her dream job. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
“Earth to Olly. You good over there?”
Desiree shook her head when she realized she’d drifted off in thought while she was talking to Iris. Shit, she probably messaged Nightshade to hurry back to the house.
“Yeah. Sorry I drifted off in thought. I’m just so tired of all this. I want it to be over with.”
“We all do, Olly. We’ll find out who is behind this and deal with it Blue Lotus style. You fuck with one of us, you fuck with us all. We’ve got your back hot stuff.”
Desiree and Iris talked a little bit more before hanging up. As she hung up the phone, Max strode into the house looking sexy as fuck in his uniform.
Even though it was designed to hide a person’s shape, his uniform literally hugged his chest and biceps like a second skin. His pants even hugged the curve of his ass showing that he had a very spankable ass.
Hell, the man earned it with his workouts. Sometimes it was all she could do not to take a bite of his ass when he walked by in his briefs when he was getting dressed.
“Keep looking at me like that, ma’am and I’ll think you see me as a piece of meat.” Max said, pretending to be offended at her studying his body.
“Baby, you are a piece of meat. A fine grade A steak that just melts in my mouth anytime I get a chance to taste you.”
“Well, I never.” Max attempted a fake southern woman’s accent.
“You did last night, Blackwell. More than once if memory recalls.” Desiree walked up and smacked his ass nice and hard.
“Ma’am, no touching the merchandise unless you plan on buying it.”
“Tomorrow.” Desiree blurted out as she studied Max for his reaction.
“Tomorrow what?”
“Let’s get our marriage license tomorrow. Then we can elope. I don’t want to wait any longer. We can do a reception with everyone afterwards. I don’t need a fancy wedding with everyone dressing up and someone to walk me down the aisle.”