“I love you, Talon,” she said, playing with her nipples as she rode up and down on my cock. “I love you so much.”
“And I love you, Jade.” I poured every ounce of love from the depths of my soul into those words, and I hoped she felt it.
We climaxed together, moving in perfect harmony, in perfect synchrony, like two strings of a violin quivering with the same music.
When we both finished, completing each other, she rolled off me and curled into my arms.
“Talon?”
“Yeah?”
“I need to talk to you about something.”
“What’s that, blue eyes?”
She exhaled. “Colin.”
I stiffened. Agitation coursed through my veins. “After that beautiful lovemaking, you bring him up?”
“It’s nothing like that, I promise. It’s just that, his father has called me a couple times. It seems he’s disappeared.”
“Good riddance,” I said.
“This is serious. He’s disappeared, and so has Larry Wade, my boss.”
“Well, I can’t say the world isn’t a better place without both of them, but I don’t know anything about it.”
“I just want you to be careful,” she said. “It’s no secret that there’s no love lost between you and Colin. People are going to ask questions. That’s why Steve Dugan came to see me.”
“He hasn't gotten around to me yet.”
“He will. I had to tell him the truth, Talon. I told him the last time I saw Colin was that Friday night, when you and your brothers found us together. Remember? He laughed and said he was going to be in court on Monday? And then he didn’t show.”
“I just figured he thought better of it.”
“That’s what I figured too, at the time. But looking back, I was just thankful he hadn’t shown up. It wasn’t like him at all. He had pledged to make trouble, and usually, when Colin sets his mind on something, he sees it through.”
“So you think whatever happened to him happened sometime between the time we saw him on Friday and court on Monday.”
“That would be my guess. I expected Colin to show up at court.”
“You want me to look into it, blue eyes?”
“No. You have enough on your plate right now with your own therapy and running the ranch. I’ll figure this out. I’m just glad to know you have nothing to do with it.”
“I won’t deny I hate the guy, but the last time you saw him was also the last time I saw him.”
“And your brothers?”
“Blue eyes, my brothers have way more sense than to get involved in anything illegal. Trust me, I’m the one they worry about. They’re both very level-headed.”
“I believe that they are, but Colin pushed all their buttons. Even Ryan got agitated at the end.”
“True. Not much gets to Ry.”
“But Colin did.”
True. Colin had. And Ryan would do anything for me. “If it makes you feel any better, I’ll talk to my brothers. But I can tell you with ninety-nine point nine percent accuracy that they had nothing to do with him disappearing.”