Page 26 of Seeking Salvation

He could resist fucking with her after she’d given him a hard time, but also to lighten the shadows in her eyes.

Cocking her head she glared at him but her lips twitched with a smile. “Oh, bite me.”

He wished he could, but he didn’t say so, instead turning back to Bás. “Any knowledge of these kids?”

“All five are under twenty years old, all runaways or had very troubled home lives.”

“So easy targets for these assholes,” Bishop growled.

“Unfortunately, yes.”

“What are we going to do about it?” Charlie hissed, her face going hard with anger and revealing the deadly operator under the calm exterior. “I could go undercover.”

“No,” Bishop said forcefully and she scowled.

“Do you need me to shoot you again?”

“Don’t talk dirty to me in front of the kids, baby,” Bishop replied with a wink at his wife.

The fact they could laugh over the fact that Charlie had shot Bishop and left him for dead and could now joke about it blew Titan’s mind, but there was no doubt these two were soulmates.

Maya’s eyes bugged out of her head. “I’m sorry, what?”

Charlie grinned at her and waved a hand. “It’s fine. I was undercover and it was to save his ass, but he just had to be dramatic and nearly die.”

“Undercover? What the hell do you do for a living?”

“I was a spy, but now I’m mostly a stay-at-home mum with our daughter and sometimes I help Watchdog out.”

“I have the distinct feeling that none of you are who you say you are, and this mountain rescue isn’t what it seems. Do you even do mountain rescue?”

“Oh, yeah, we do a few a month, but we have a side hustle doing other stuff, like helping people like you.”

“So, you’re vigilantes?”

Charlie frowned, pursing her lips. “Kinda, but also not.”

Maya swung her gaze to his and he waited for her to speak or react for a long minute, but she didn’t, at least not outwardly. But he could see the wheels turning in her brain and knew he’d have to give her something after Charlie outed them.

“We’ll talk later and I’ll explain.”

“OK.”

“Charlie isn’t going undercover,” Bishop stated again.

“Agreed. They’re very picky about who they take on, and each one is under twenty-two, including the boys.”

“I’m not and they took me on,” Maya announced in confusion.

Bás looked at Watchdog and then Titan as if deciding how much he wanted to reveal.

“Tell us,” he demanded, knowing Maya needed to know the truth.

“You were taken on to work off a debt Rose incurred but we don’t think the debt was from drugs. We believe Rose was going to be the target for a high-profile client but when she got pregnant, it made her unsuitable and therefore useless to them, but they lost money on her and you’re working it off. We can’t know for sure, of course.”

“We need to put someone under at the club and we know they’re looking for bouncers regularly. Then have someone pose as a potential client.”

“I’ll do it. I can be the muscle if you can get someone else under with me.” Titan found himself volunteering before he could think twice but it felt like the right thing to do.

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