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Titan

“ B ailey was fine as hell, wasn’t she? I can’t wait to start working with her to oversee our marketing campaign.

Usually I don’t get involved because I’m president of marketing and we have employees for that but I’m going to make an exception for her and honor her with my presence.

” I bit my lip in frustration to stop myself from cussing Trent’s ass out as we rode down in the elevator.

“And her hips were made for pencil skirts. Did you see those heels she was wearing? Damn that woman is stacked!” Hearing the lust in my baby brother’s voice was grating on my fucking nerves, and I had to ball my hands into fists and dig my nails into my palms just stop myself from punching him in the mouth.

I knew Trent was eager to work with Bailey because that was all he talked about since we got on the elevator.

Normally my brother being his overly flirtatious self didn’t bother me, but the way he was talking about Bailey was pissing me the fuck off.

But I never wanted to hurt my brother out of anger, so I clenched my jaw and kept staring at my reflection in the stainless-steel elevator doors.

“I hope her husband isn’t the jealous type.” I heard Trent say and I felt my shoulders tense and my eyes twitch as jealously hit me hard in my stomach, damn near knocking the wind out of me. I took a deep breath and silently counted to ten as I let it out slowly.

“Who said she was married?” I finally spoke once I felt calm enough, but the sound of my voice reflected how I was feeling. Tense and possessive. According to my research on Bailey, she was unmarried and worked too much to have a steady boyfriend. So why did Trent say she was married?

“Why do you care?” My brother Torrence asked from behind me.

The suspicion I heard that laced his tone let me know that he also noticed the edge in my voice.

Torrence was excellent at listening and reading people, qualities that made him an excellent attorney, but right now, I wasn’t in the mood for his perceptiveness.

“I was just asking,” I mumbled, silently wishing for the elevator to hurry up and get to the ground floor.

“Yeah, sure you were,” Torrence said, chuckling, “I saw how you looked when that guy picked her up. Your jaw was clenched so tight I thought you were going to break a tooth.”

Clearly my foul mood was amusing to my brothers because they started to laugh when I sighed in relief when the elevator finally reached the ground floor and the doors opened.

“Oh, and don’t forget he moved the meeting up at the last minute.

” Now it was Travis’s turn to make fun of me, and I ignored his ass too.

My brothers have been making jokes at my expense since they were old enough to talk but they never teased me about a woman I was interested in; not even my ex-wife or the women I dated before her, so this was new.

“I think Titan already planted his flag on Bailey, little T. You see how he made her call him Titan? You know he always makes people outside of friends and family call him Mr. Browning. But with Ms. Henson? Nooooo, ‘Call me Titan’.” I heard Torrence mock my voice to Trent and he made me sound like a damn caveman.

They both laughed louder when I stepped off the elevator like my ass was on fire.

“In all seriousness though, it’s about damn time he took an interest in someone again.” Titan’s brother Trent said with sympathy and the rest of his brothers nodded their heads in agreement as they watched Titan’s large retreating figure disappear through the revolving doors of the building.