The Bond (Unbroken Raine Falling 4)

“The first vacu-whore off the line.” Beck snorted. “I thought of hitting that once, but I wanted a newer model. You know, one that hasn’t sucked the foreskin off every dick in a thousand-mile radius.”

“What the devil is she trying to do to you, River?” Liam asked with a laugh.

“She’s hunting the elusive trouser snake, son,” Duncan drawled in a singsong Irish lilt. “Be fast now, lassie. Catch it with your lips before it escapes.”

“That’s not a snake!” River protested with feigned indignation. “It’s a goddamn anaconda.”

“Watch out,” Seth yelled. “The teeth of the venomous skank-muffin can shred a man’s cock to ribbons.”

“If her brick-hard tits don’t knock you unconscious first,” River groused. “Jesus, I’ve thrown medicine balls that were softer than those things.”

Hammer simply groaned and covered his face, peering out between splayed fingers.

Like watching a train wreck, no one could look away.

When Marlie jumped to her feet and peeled off her dress, Liam howled with laughter. “Oh, look. The cankerous cock cobra has just shed her skin. Quick! Someone call National Geographic.”

“I’m going to be sick,” Hammer moaned.

Seth stood and paused the feed.

The men groaned in unison. Beck threw popcorn at him.

“Shut up, your fucking pervs,” he scolded. “Sterling, you need to listen to everything she says now that River has her on the bed. When he releases his ‘anaconda’ and double bags it with condoms, you can tune out again.”

“Double bags?” Hammer snorted. “What, did she have open sores or something?”

“None I could see on camera,” Seth replied. “But I might have suggested she had critters all up in that shit. I knew Raine wouldn’t be happy if River took one for the team and ended up with a case of crotch crickets.”

“Just another reason I kept my mouth off her shit,” River added.

“Okay, everyone quiet down,” Seth instructed. “Listen.”

The room went deathly quiet as he started the video once again. As Marlie confessed to sleeping with the AUSA and bribing Lewis with blow jobs to get her hands on the security drives at Shadows, Liam’s temper skyrocketed.

He was sickened by the visible glee she took in lying and planting the seeds that would destroy not only Hammer but their family. And the more she maligned Raine, the angrier Liam grew. He clenched his jaw and fists. Blood thundered in his ears as he restrained the urge to snap her fucking neck.

“I want to kill that cunt.” Clearly, Hammer was as livid as Liam. “Why such hatred? I never promised her a fucking thing, and she certainly didn’t mean shit to me.”

Liam gripped Hammer’s arm. “There’s the problem, mate. She’s a narcissistic slut who expected you to put her on a pedestal. Instead, you tossed her aside for our girl. Marlie couldn’t handle the rejection.”

Hammer shook his head in disgust. “So she thought she’d put me in prison instead? What a squack-dripping, sociopathic cuntsicle. I want to fucking kill her.”

When River reached inside his pants on the video, Seth stopped the DVD again.

“Aw, come on, fucker,” Beck grumbled. “We want to watch the rest.”

“Keep your panties on,” Seth chided, then turned to Sterling. “Is Hammer free? Is there enough on this tape to clear his name?”

All eyes turned toward the lawyer. Liam held his breath as Hammer tensed beside him.

“Christ knows I’d love to say yes, but she didn’t name names. If I presented this to the judge, my defense would be as circumstantial as their prosecution.” Sterling looked frustrated and saddened.

“I thought you might say that, so…” Seth pulled a stack of papers from his briefcase as he stood in front of the men. “I did a little more digging. That’s why I’m late. As of two weeks ago, the illustrious AUSA, Todd Wellington, acquired a mistress.”

Seth handed Sterling a sheet of paper.

“From these credit card receipts, you can see that Wellington began booking rooms at The Ritz every Monday and Friday for a little nooner. So I trekked down to the hotel a few hours ago and flirted my ass off with the front desk clerk. I showed her a photo of Marlie and Wellington, and she whispered that the couple had already checked in. They were up on the tenth floor. She wouldn’t tell me the room number, but I didn’t really need it.”

“You sly fucker.” Liam grinned.

“I paced the hall for about thirty minutes with my phone in hand. When suddenly, two doors down, they walked out of one of the rooms. I turned and clicked off a couple of photos. They didn’t even look my way. Wellington just shoved her up against the wall and grabbed her ass while Marlie swallowed his tongue.”

“Oh, god. I know exactly how that feels,” River grumbled.

“I was able to capture these…” Seth announced as he held up eight-by-ten photos of the couple groping and tonsil-swabbing.

“Holy shit,” Hammer barked.