All Chapters of Extreme Curves (Dangerous Curves 7): Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The next morning, Tex was standing in the safe house kitchen, thanking the good Lord above for coffee. He and Honey had been up all night, of course, and that was no biggie because they were well-used to pulling all-nighters. He wasn’t tired, but a cup of black coffee with sugar was starting to sound damn good right about then. Maybe with a cheese omelet.He had just opened the fridge to see what they had in the way of food, and what he’d have to ask to be delivered from the grocery store, when he heard a noise behind him. He and Honey – all the Men, actually – knew to identify themselves when entering a room from an unseen position, so he knew it wasn’t her. Besides, she and Jack were out in the yard checking the security equipment, cameras, and fences, and no way they’d have walked the entire perimeter yet. Lightning-quick, Tex spun, arms extended, gun steady and aimed to kill.“Jesus!” Spider leapt back, raising his arms in front of his chest automatically… like that would do any d

“Melanie,” Spider said. “She and the biker kept on seeing each other, and it went on between them all summer, much to my surprise. So for almost four months, she’d drag me along to Skulls and to MC parties and barbecues – and to the biker camp one weekend. That’s – that’s when things finally happened between us. Me and Ace. We’d been avoiding each other for all those months, never said one word to each other. Not once, not ever. Every time one of us showed up, the other disappeared. Every time one of us changed locations, the other moved places just as fast. But we were always watching each other, always totally aware where the other was, all the time. We were circling each other that whole summer, just going around and around. But then that weekend up at the cabin… we stopped circling. For the first time, we stood still.” Spider fell silent.“C’mon, man. Spill it.” Tex was rapt, and he was a bit surprised by that. “Don’t leave me hangin’ here.”But Spider was still quiet, remembering

Ace lay on his bed in a patch of weak winter sunlight, his arms crossed behind his head, staring at the ceiling. He’d managed to sneak back upstairs before Liam had come up, and now Liam’s words were ringing in his ears over and over again.Ace is a very good liar.It was really just a casual fling that dragged on way too long.Not too much to be sorry about then, is there?None of it was true, of course, and it had all been said for Tex’s benefit, and for Liam’s self-protection. Ace knew that. He’d never forgotten the agony in Liam’s voice when he’d begged Ace to leave Denver with him. And that look on his face, when Ace had told him that he was dead to him… well. It was the face of a man wrecked with hurt and pain. Ace had put that look there – and he’d done it on purpose.Sure, he’d done it to protect Liam, but somehow, that excuse had never flown with Ace, not in his most secret heart. Over the past seven years, Ace had spent many, many nights staring at ceilings, thinking about L

“OK, then.” Val glanced at her watch. “So the four of us will be guarding every floor, and one of us will always be on the front door. We work in shifts, so we move around the space constantly on a grid and schedule. The next shift arrives in the morning at eight a.m. sharp, and they’ll pick up our positions then. What we need you to do is this, and it’s important: never enter a room without announcing yourselves, alright? We’ll probably see you before you see us, but our backs may be turned, or we may be distracted. Make sure we know you’re there, OK?”“Because you might take us down?” Mirrie said jokingly. “With extreme prejudice?”“Yes.” Val’s answer was flat and clipped. “We might, and if we do that, you might get hurt. We don’t want that, none of us. So you do your part to make sure it doesn’t happen. Yes?”“Yes,” Mirrie whispered. “Sorry.”“No need to apologize,” Val said coolly. “But this is a serious matter, ladies, so I do hope you can take it seriously.”Confronted by a ster

Four days later “Can everyone hear me?” King said, sitting down at the massive table in the back of King’s Garage. “Sound off, guys.”“Tex and Jack here,” Jack said, his voice warm and clear over the speaker set in the middle of the table. “Honey’s on front door guard duty, so she won’t be joining us.”“OK,” King replied. “Everyone else?”“This is Tank and Luke,” came Tank’s guttural growl, his Cajun accent more pronounced over the speaker. “Valentina and Dallas are in position around the house, keeping an eye on the ladies.”“And at this end, besides me, we have Lilly and Knox,” King said. “Nobody else is back from assignment yet.”Murmurs of assent came over the speaker now and King leaned back in his chair, gestured at Lilly and Knox to sit.“So,” he drawled, already anticipating the answer to his question. “How goes it with Spider and Ace, Jack? Tex?”“Jeeeeesus,” Tex said right away, and King grinned. “Can I switch out, boss? Maybe go and take care of the women? Never-ending and