Jared (The Protectors #2)(7)
“You got my condoms?” Mr. Weston’s saggy wrinkled face jigged as he sneaked a peep behind him to make sure no one was around.
“Excuse me?” Tessa all but choked. This little old man surely did not just ask her for a rubber.
“Adam said he would get me a box.” His anxious face turned sour. “He didn’t send them with you?”
“Ah, no. No, he didn’t.” Tessa eyed him, wondering if the little old man could even….ugh, okay not going there.
“Well don’t that just chap my ass!” The old man huffed. “I got women lining up at my door and I got me a hot date tonight with Laverne.”
Tessa could not believe she was standing in the hallway of Villa Springs Nursing Home talking to an eighty something year old man about condoms. She was going to kill her brother. “I’m sorry.” Was all she could think to say. Seriously, what could she say?
“You’re sorry?” The old man huffed again as he buzzed past her in his automatic wheelchair. “You ain’t the one who’s gonna have a case of blue balls.”
Standing there in complete shock she slowly turned to watch the old man make his way down the hall pinching every ass he passed. A huge smile broke out across her face, uncontrollable laughter close behind as she quickly made her way out of the nursing home. Yeah, she was definitely going to kill her brother.
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This time Tessa parked in the driveway. Anxious, she jumped out of the car and ran into the house. “Adam.” She called out throwing her bag on the couch as she passed. “I am going to kill you. Old Mr. Weston cornered me at the nursing home wanting to know if I had his condoms. What in the hell are you doing promising that old man condoms? He pretty much is going to blame me if he gets a case of blue balls….” Tessa stopped cold as she stepped into her now very crowded kitchen.
“Hello Red.” There leaning against her kitchen sink was the warrior she had silver chained to the chair wearing a grin that sucked the breath right out of her and he wasn’t alone. Two other warriors stood in the room. A noise from behind her was fair warning she had passed a fourth warrior on her way in.
Fear like nothing she ever felt before paralyzed her. Okay be cool she told herself, but being cool with nervous sweat breaking out on her body was hard to pull off. “Who are you?” She was proud her voice held strong. Playing dumb was the only way she might be able to get out of this mess. “What are you doing in my house?”
Everyone looked to the one leaning against the sink. “It’s her.” He told them, his eyes never leaving hers. “I smelled honeysuckle a mile away.”
He tossed her baseball hat and sunglasses on the table which pretty much shot the playing dumb card down the toilet. Dammit. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She took a step back, but ran into something hard. “You need to leave now before I call the police.” She demanded pulling out her cell phone. A huge hand snaked around her grabbing it.
“Sit down.” The one behind her gave her a small push toward the kitchen table where he just threw her phone.
“Hey.” She reached for her phone but was pushed into a seat and had to grab the edges of the chair before she hit the ground. “What the hell is your pro…” The words died in her throat when the biggest, scariest man she had ever seen snarled down at her with huge fangs, eyes black as midnight.
“Damon.” One of the others called out, Tessa didn’t know which one since her eyes were glued on her current threat. “We need her to talk, not pass out from fear. Back off.”
Tessa let out a whoosh of breath when he backed away to lean against the door frame, his snarl still in place and eyes as black, but out of arms reach. “I think you guys got the wrong house.” She tried one more time to lie her way out of this mess. Maybe if she hadn’t had her mind on condoms and blue balls she might have noticed something wasn’t right before entering into this nightmare.
“Oh we got the right house Red.” The one she had chained to the chair and her brother held the gun to his head pushed away from the counter slamming both hands on the table in front of her. He leaned in so close she cringed away. “Where’s your brother?”
“I don’t have a brother.” Tessa was getting really, really nervous, so nervous in fact she had to pee. Nerves did that to her. Just like water made people have to pee, nerves were her water going straight through her.
“Give me five minutes with her and I bet she’ll remember she has a brother.” The one they called Damon growled.
She had no clue where Adam was, obviously not here. Damn, she had to think and think fast. Standing up, she pushed her chair taking a step away from the huge warriors. Never had she been in a room so full of males that radiated power from their pores. It was almost overwhelming. Hell, what was she talking about, she was about to pee her pants, the pure male alpha power was so overwhelming. “You need to leave now!” She pointed to the door as if that was going to make them do as she ordered. “Get out of my house!”
They all stared at her with no emotion at all, well they all looked pretty pissed, but she was trying to ignore that fact. “Honey, you might as well come clean. We know you were at our compound with your brother. All we want to know is where he is and where he took Chad Evans. As soon as we find that out we will be on our way.”