Page 77 of Lawbreaker

His head lifted and he looked into her shocked eyes. He actually chuckled. “I’m a man,” he whispered. “This is how we work. Temptation brings noticeable...inflations.”

She gurgled with sudden laughter. They were intimate, and it wasn’t frightening or embarrassing, it was fun.

He grinned. “So, you learned something new.” He stared at her breasts, more visible in the position she was in. He bent his head, and his mouth smoothed over just their pretty pink tops, where the fabric dipped just enough.

She caught her breath.

“So many new things,” he teased. He lifted his head. “But we’d better get up and look dignified.”

“Why?” she moaned, holding on.

“Ben.”

She blinked. “Ben?”

“Coming in the door...?”

She cried out softly. “Oh, damn, where’s my bathrobe...!”

She tore out of his arms and ran for her bedroom while Tony roared with laughter.

Ben, oblivious to what he’d interrupted, stared at Tony with raised eyebrows. “What?” he asked.

Tony was buttoning his shirt. He looked rumpled and happy. Happier than Ben had seen him in years and years.

“We couldn’t catch the guy,” Ben continued. “But one of our boys got a look at his car. We’ll have something soon.”

“It will lead back to James,” Tony said. He shrugged. “We can deal with him, when the time comes.”

“Yeah.”

Odalie, hair combed and thick bathrobe buttoned to the neck and barefoot, came back into the living room, trying to look unaffected. “Did you see who it was?” she asked Ben.

He shook his head. “But one of the boys got some clues. We’ll find him. Don’t you worry.”

“We won’t. She’s coming home with us.”

“What?” Ben and Odalie chorused.

“Listen,” Tony said, and he wasn’t smiling as he turned to Odalie, “somebody got past my guy and almost broke in. You’re not safe here. Not now.”

Odalie was quick. “Is something going on that I don’t know about?”

He nodded.

“Something bad,” she guessed.

He nodded again. “So pack some stuff and get dressed. Nobody touches you,” he added in a tone that made her toes curl.

She just smiled. “Okay, Tony.”

She went to pack. Ben tried to muffle a laugh.

Tony turned and looked at him. “You don’t know anything. You haven’t seen anything. You’re blind, and deaf.”

“How can I drive in such a condition?” Ben asked reasonably.

“I’ll buy you one of those self-driving cars.”