ZAK SEAL Team Seven(11)

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ZAK





I woke with a start until I felt her body next to mine, and the night came rushing back. I didn’t have time to be lying around in bed. We were supposed to be letting the men go today.

We couldn’t keep them here indefinitely because the army would come looking for the fucks, and since we’d ascertained that they were just patsies, there was really no need to hold them.

How they explained their bruises to their superiors was their problem, and we were hoping that that might lead to something; maybe someone would start talking. Plus we had found a way to make this work for us.

She was still asleep and no wonder. We’d fallen off about three hours ago after an intense night of lovemaking, and she was out cold. I on the other hand was feeling more energetic than I had in quite some time. Even with all the shit that was going on, having her here, made life seem worthwhile again. The only other thing I was really interested in now, was finding out what, if any part these three played in the death of the only man I’d ever really looked up to as a father figure. I knew that shit, when it was discovered, was going to cause all hell to break loose, because none of us were gonna let that shit go.

But for now I was more than happy to find comfort in her body. It had been a while since I’d had that.

I took a quick shower and got dressed, wondering if I should let her sleep in or wake her up. I’d already disabled her van and had put a tag on her while we were fucking, so she wasn’t going anywhere, but would she even try?

I knew she was gonna have to go get her stuff at some point, women hated leaving shit behind for some fucked up reason, but that could wait. I planned on asking the girls to take her shopping for some shit later, to tide her over until. But first we had to make sure it was safe.

I left her and headed for Logan’s place since Gaby was making breakfast today. I hope these women never catches on to the fact that we’d basically divvied up kitchen duty between them since they’d got engaged. If I had to go back to eating the swill my brothers concocted I’d lose my fucking mind. In the last couple of months we’ve been eating like kings, but now with Dani’s morning sickness, which according to Con came at all kind of hours, she wasn’t too good around the scent of food, so Gaby had taken up the mantle.

I didn’t even know if mine could throw down in the kitchen, we hadn’t ever discussed it. Thinking of her staying here, being a part of all this, made my heart do strange things in my chest. It strengthened my resolve not to let her go.

“Hey AWOL, what’s got you frowning?” Ty met me halfway from his place to Logan’s. I ignored his bullshit, that’s one of his many insults, that Connor, Lo and I went AWOL for pussy, I can’t wait for his turn to come.

It looked like everyone was getting a late start today because Logan and Gaby both looked like they were fighting to get into their clothes when we walked in.

She had a pretty blush on her cheek so there was no second guessing what the hell had been going on before we showed up, and he was still trying to get his hand on her ass.

“Lo, cut the shit, your time is over buddy, it’s eating time now, what’s on the menu?” Swear to fuck Ty has problems. He all but shoved me out of the way to get to the table. The others came straggling in with Con holding Dani like she was an invalid.

“Damn sis you look green.” I pulled out a chair for her and looked at Con who looked like he was ready to kill someone over this shit.

“I have to run her into the doctor’s this morning, I’m not putting up with this shit no matter how normal she says it is.” The two of them started bickering, which was funny as hell, because Con wasn’t listening to a word she said.

“Hey, Bullwinkle, it’s natural for a woman’s body to do that while she’s with young. Don’t embarrass us, what’re you gonna do, run to the doctor every time she pukes?”

Ty the expert put his two cents in. I’m pretty sure if he doesn’t stop his shit either Con or Lo is gonna put his lights out. The only reason none of us had taken his ass out as yet was because we knew this was his way of not dealing with what we suspected had happened to the commander. A pain in the ass Ty was better than crazy Ty any day.

The talk was light as we sat around drinking cups of coffee while we waited for whatever Gaby was gonna dish up this morning.

One thing about these Southern Belles, they knew how to put a meal together. It was almost surreal sitting here like this, shooting the breeze, talking bullshit, like Ty teasing Cord about moping because the little firecracker wasn’t here, when all the while there was a shit storm brewing.