Just One Kiss (The Town of Pearl 8)

“Lucifer!” she scolded, slapping his chest, her voice sounding sexier the more she spoke.

Gabriele gave her ass a tap.

“Let’s get this cleanup thing going pronto. I want to get you home and in bed.”

Lucia smiled.

“Um, I have something to tell you.” She ran her hand up Lucifer’s chest, and his cock hardened within his jeans.

“What’s that, sugar?” Maxwell asked her.

“We’re not on the cleanup committee. I was only teasing.”

The others made comments, but Lucifer held her chin between his fingers. “I have a feeling that our woman likes a good spanking.” Her cheeks flushed, and she pulled her bottom lip between her teeth.

“Well then, let’s get her home and give her exactly, what she likes,” Maxwell said, his voice laced with a mischievous tone. Lucifer kissed her deeply as he pulled her into his arms then lifted her up and carried her through town to their truck. He smiled wide as people chuckled and smiled. His brothers by his side, his woman in his arms, and all their dreams were becoming a reality. All because of Lucia.

Chapter 12

Derek stared at the computer screen. The private investigator he hired was definitely resourceful. He found Lucia. Holy shit.

“That’s her, isn’t it?” Roscoe Levine asked as he spoke with Derek over the phone. His thick Southern accent and deep voice penetrated through the phone. He was resourceful indeed. Who would have thought by searching the Internet looking for the name Lucia that he would find her involved in a criminal investigation? Seems his woman was so beautiful and sexy, she attracted all kinds of strays.

Derek looked at the other pictures. The ones of some men she was with.

“Who are the men? What’s their story, and where is this town?” he asked.

“Afraid to say that your woman has become part of the trend around the towns in that vicinity.”

“Trend? What trend?”

“Men sharing one woman. Claiming to be her guardians and then getting to fuck her anywhere, anyhow. You couldn’t pay me enough to slide dicks next to another man’s while fucking some pussy. The shit can’t be that good. No offense, Derek.”

“She’s sleeping with them? All four of these men, you’re sure?” Derek nearly growled the words. His stomach tightened, anger pooled in his belly, and he saw red. He would ring her fucking neck, beat her until she begged for mercy, and then he’d have her killed. Long after he married her, and sealed the deal to bind the families and be filthy fucking rich forever.

“My guy Gerry got those pictures during a harvest festival two weeks ago.”

“Two weeks ago? Why the fuck did he take so long to get them to you?”

“He was trying to hide out. Seems the town has a lot of retired soldiers, federal agents, and other people involved in law enforcement and in the criminal world.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Some fucking marshal caught sight of him and may have recognized him. He said he had to take off and stay in the woods, taking trails back toward the main towns. He left his fucking vehicle that’s in my fucking name. I had to report it stolen so no one would track this investigation to me and to you. It could h

ave been a fucking mess. But he got out of there.”

“I want her back now. Before Thanksgiving.”

“That’s not going to happen. It’s a week and a half away. We need time to plan this accordingly. Those men in that town are resourceful, and the men she is with are retired military.”

“Soldiers? She’s fucking a bunch of mud-rat soldiers? What the fuck is she thinking? She’s prime meat. They must know she’s worth a lot of money. They want her for her name and for her inheritance from her grandparents. I won’t let that happen. Make the plan to grab her. On Thanksgiving or fucking after, I don’t care, but she’ll be waking up in my bed with me before Christmas fucking morning. Hell, she’ll be my wife before then. She has to be.”

He hung up the phone and slammed his hand down on the desk.

He stared at the picture of Lucia hugging some big-ass hillbilly soldier who had a hand on her ass. She was fucking four guys. He knew what that meant. He had wanted to fuck that virgin ass first. Hell, he was hoping that he had impregnated her that night he fucked her. But obviously he didn’t. She looked thin, sexy, and fucking happy. That just pissed him off even more. He had to ensure that the marriage went through before the end of the year. His father changed his mind and wanted nothing to do with the contract, but that didn’t matter. Once Derek married Lucia, their families would be bound by marriage and their money shared, and Lucia’s inheritance from her grandparents would belong to him, too. She didn’t even know a thing about it.

This was going to work out. She would be his wife, he would make his billions, and then he would have her killed. It served the slut right. She’d pay big-time for what she did. Making her suffer was now his ultimate goal. “You’re as good as dead, bitch. But not before I take what’s mine.”