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the bed watching her. How I would have her strip all of her clothes off for me slowly while she swung her hips in sinful movements to tease me. How she would look when she was down to nothing except pretty, little lace panties. Maybe her boots and her cowboy hat, too. My dick felt like a solid steel pipe pressing into my zipper.
    It took Jaxon slapping me on the back of my head to get me moving towards the exit again before the song and, therefore, the distraction was over. I silently vowed to myself as we left that Belle would be doing that for me again soon. All I had to do was come up with a plan to tame the wild woman who still managed to make my dick go hard in less than eight seconds like some sexual rodeo and my heart squeeze in my chest so hard that I thought I might be having a heart attack.

 

     
    Chapter Four
     
    Annabelle
     
    I faked a drunken swagger as the Sullivan brothers pretended to half-drag me out to the parking lot. When we were clear of the front door, with nothing except the sounds of bull frogs and crickets surrounding us, Declan leaned in to whisper in my ear.
    “You put on one hell of a show there, honey. Group One has already made it to a secure location to change and arm up. We’ll wait here until they get back in about fifteen minutes.”
    I pulled the gate down on my truck bed. The three of us could sit there like we were shootin’ the shit and wasting time. In other words, a typical, laid back, southern night.
    “Give us a story to pass the time, Annabelle. Tell us something horribly embarrassing about Bobby.” Declan grinned as he leaned back on his elbows against the bottom of the truck bed.
    Raising my eyebrow in amusement, I watched the other man’s lazy demeanor. “I don’t know about that, Declan. Perhaps it would be best if I didn’t talk about Bobby with y’all. I’m a bit biased on the subject of him.”
    The guys chuckled and then Declan quickly grew serious. “Do you mind if I’m brutally honest with you, Annabelle?”
    I let loose an unfeminine snort. “You might as well. I’ve got this funny feeling that you’re the type that would tell me whether I want to hear it or not.”
    “I promise I’m not trying to pry into your business, I just want you to know that I’ve known Bobby for the last three and a half years he’s been on this team. In that time, we’ve grown close. I’d do anything for him; including step into something that is clearly not my business by telling you things that I should leave for him to say, but since you won’t give him the time of day, let me lay it out for you. Bobby’s my boy. Over the years, we’ve had a few drunken nights where he told me all about the mistakes he made over the course of his life. He always said that the biggest mistake he ever made was leaving you. Did you know that just a couple of weeks after he broke it off with you, he had his parents searching that entire county for you since he couldn’t find you by phone? Apparently, you just up and disappeared out of that small town you guys grew up in.”
    Shock rolled through my body. Bobby had looked for me? Wow.
    I sure as hell hadn’t seen that one coming.
    How different would my life have been if I hadn’t left town the day after getting Bobby’s letter? A letter that was, by the way, still in my possession. It was something I’d used over the years to help me mourn the heart I’d left buried back in Georgia. So many things had happened in the last fifteen years. As much as I would love to think Bobby genuinely wanted to clear the air between us, as he’d hinted over the past two days, I didn’t think it was possible. If Bobby ever knew what I’d done, what I’d hidden from him, he’d look at me with the kind of burning hate you bestowed on the people you despised with every fiber of your being. I don’t think I could survive knowing that the only man I’d ever loved felt that way about me.
    Turning back to look at Declan, I considered my next