Bridget felt a wave of aid move by her. “Oh thank God. I imply, not that she’s lifeless, however?—”

“I do know what you imply, Bridget.”

“What are we going to do?”

“I used to be going to see the way you felt about staying right here on the ranch tonight.”

It was what she needed, what she was about to request, however she was shocked to listen to Rodney counsel it. “Right here? Why?”

“As a result of I believe I’m lastly promoting the final of my soul to the satan. I’m going to interrupt right into a lifeless lady’s home to search for a flash drive.”

“I’ll include you.”

Rodney shortly refused. “The hell you’ll. I’ve damaged each rule crushed into my head throughout my police coaching since we left Oklahoma. Go away me some scrap of dignity. I’ll really feel a hell of quite a bit safer with you right here. Moreover you’re about as quiet as a bass drum. I can’t think about how onerous it might be to enter somebody’s home undercover with you.”

She narrowed her eyes, able to protest his insult, however they didn’t have time for the argument. And he was proper. She was clumsy as hell, particularly at midnight.

“High quality. I’ll keep right here. What occurs should you don’t discover something?”

Rodney sighed. “Then I’m afraid we could need to crash the reception after the funeral. Perhaps attempt to query the kin. By some means.”

She may inform from his tone Rodney didn’t like that choice.

“You two didn’t make it very far,” Mark stated as he joined them.

Rodney shortly shoved the obituary again in his pocket as Mark handed Bridget a sweatshirt.

“Undecided the place Jessie retains her sweatshirts and I didn’t assume she’d respect me rifling by her drawers. Introduced you one in every of mine. Could be a bit massive.”

“That is good. Thanks.” For a number of minutes, she tagged alongside as Mark confirmed Rodney across the secure, introducing him to the horses. It gave her time to think about Lyle’s message. They’d damaged the primary half of the code and it had led them to Ellen Updyke in Saratoga. Bridget silently prayed Rodney would discover the flash drive tonight, so they may put the remainder of infuriating puzzle away.

After dinner, Rodney claimed he had a headache and introduced he was heading again to the inn for the night time. Neither of the twins questioned his departure, clearly assuming she’d set it up with him due to their invitation.

Jacob declined to observe a film with them, opting as a substitute to go to mattress with a e-book.

Matt grasped her hand and began to take her into the lounge, however she held again.

“The place’s your bed room?” she requested. She’d spent most of dinnertime alternating between anxious butterflies in her abdomen and an ache between her legs. She needed to sleep with Matt and Mark, even when the concept of taking over two wholly masculine, very virile males on the similar time made her nervous as hell.

Mark pulled her shut. “Bridget, we don’t need to do something tonight should you aren’t prepared. There’s a visitor room that you simply’re greater than welcome to?—”

She held up her hand. “Cease proper there. The one manner I’m sleeping in a visitor room is should you two are with me.”

Matt took the hand she’d raised in his and led her down the hallway. “Then so be it. Each of our bedrooms are upstairs, however so is Jacob’s. Tonight we’ll sleep within the visitor room. Fortunate for us, it has a pleasant, massive mattress.”

She adopted Matt into the room, then turned to observe Mark shut the door and lock it.

He gave her a responsible grin. “Simply ensuring we’re not disturbed. Jake is a nosy fucker. Wouldn’t put it previous him to come back in search of us later once we don’t come up.”

She giggled. “Do you assume he’ll be scandalized when he realizes we’re all in right here collectively?”

Mark shook his head. “My child brother? Hell no, nothing shocks that man.”

Matt turned her to face him. She sucked in a breath on the pure starvation in his gaze. Reasonably than communicate, he merely bent ahead and kissed her. His lips grazed hers softly at first earlier than he deepened the motion. She reached as much as wrap her arms round his neck, letting her fingers glide by his thick, darkish hair.

His fingers grasped her face, gently turning her head this fashion and that so he may advance the kiss, preserve his lips on hers. It was heady, dizzying, good.

She heard Mark method, felt his fingers grip her waist from behind. He didn’t attempt to break her and Matt aside. As a substitute, he added his heat to the union, urgent his lips softly in opposition to the again of her head.

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