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Kevin sneered at me. “It wasn’t my idea to set me up with one of your undercover friends.”
Raye cut in. “These are your choices. You can either tell us what’s going on or we can hand you over to the police so they’ll know who stole all those wallets and purses and phones from their dates, and you can face that music. Your choice. You’ve got five seconds to decide.”
Kevin scowled at her, but alas, that five seconds was three seconds too many because suddenly, Mace, Javi, Gabe and Jacob were there.
Strolling through us like he owned the joint, Mace announced, “We’ll take it from here.”
“You will not!” Raye exclaimed. “We’re in the middle of an interrogation.”
You had to hand it to him, when Raye said this, Mace didn’t even crack a smile. He simply commandeered Kevin, who was shouting, “Who are you fuckin’ guys?” (to no one answering). Mace handed him off to Jacob.
Jacob pushed Kevin out the back door with Mace and Gabe following, though Gabe tossed a look over his broad shoulder toward Willow that had my sister senses sparking.
What was that?
Raye and Luna followed them out the door, probably to continue protesting they were stealing the suspect we’d subdued. Tex followed, probably not to protest but instead make sure Kevin stayed subdued.
Javi came to me.
“You okay?” he asked.
I nodded.
A smile split his face the likes I’d never witnessed before.
He then said a deep, amused, “Babe.”
I liked his deep amusement, also his smile, but I was confused.
“What?” I asked.
“That table dive was legend.”
Oh no!
They had cameras in The Surf Club.
I forgot!
I felt heat in my cheeks, and Javi’s smile brightened to approximately the light of the sun.
“We get there, we can play chaser and the chased, and you can dive on me like that whenever you want.”
Oh God.
I needed someone to murder me again.
“Though, without the hit to the gonads at the end,” he went on. “I’ll need those.”
No, I didn’t need someone to murder me.
I was going to die of mortification.
For sure.
He got super close, and I was so deep in wallowing in my embarrassment, I didn’t even twitch.
He then dipped his head down super low so his face was in mine.