Page 5 of All We Want

Chapter 4

Aiden

The little minx has already ruffled the unflappable Declan.

He may think he isn’t showing it, but I know him better than anyone else. The way he is obsessing over the little details or lack thereof of her theft. How he can’t find more than the surface level data on her when normally nothing is outside of his reach. And the way he looks at that fucking image.

I’ll admit that the image and what little I know about her has drawn me like a moth to a flame also. But I have always been drawn to pretty things.

And pretty doesn’t begin to describe the little minx. I just wanted to bury myself in all of her curves.

The opening of the passenger door of my Mercedes startles me from my thoughts before Declan slides into the seat. I raise an eyebrow at him but he just keeps looking out the windshield of the car.

“Ya look a liddle warm there, Dec.”

He flashes a scowl in my direction that just has me laughing. I enjoy teasing my brother until he snaps at me, which doesn’t happen often. When he suddenly holds up a hand, I know he is serious and the laughter dies instantly.

When he points a finger out the front of the car, I watch as a matte black Mustang exits the underground parking garage of the building we are in front of. I hum softly in appreciation of the vehicle as it turns onto the street and drives away from us.

Once she has turned out of sight, I start my car and follow. I don’t need to follow closely, I know where she is going, and being too close would just cause alarm. I honestly didn’t know how the cops figure they can tail someone so close, cause that shit just raises alarm bells.

Declan brings his phone to his ear. “She’s headin’ ya way now… O’course I didn’ say anythin’ specific, jus’ my presence in her office did all the work for us… See ya soon.”

When he slides the phone back into the pocket of his jacket, he turns to look at me with a smirk. “Oh the reaction to me bein’ there will live on in me memory for a while now.”

I grin as I shift gears, I can still see her, but she is giving the speed limit a good nudge. I know I will have to back off when we reach the edge of the city, but I am enjoying being able to watch her work that gorgeous machine before then.

“Tell me she didn’a break that easy… this won’ be nearly as fun if she did.”

He chuckles and even without looking at him, I know he is probably replaying the whole encounter in his mind again. “Didn’a even falter. If I hadn’ been watchin’ so close at her reflection and then at her, I woulda thought we had the wrong lass.”

I flicked a glance at him, waiting for him to elaborate, and I can tell from the smirk still on his face that I was right. It was strange to see him so affected when he was normally all calm, controlled, and analytical. I wait him out though; I know he will share the details if I let him, and he doesn’t take long.

“I could almost smell da fear an’ panic. The slight widenin’ of her eyes, the way her breathin’ increased. But she didn’a miss a beat, acted like she had no’ a clue why I was there, introduced herself like it was a normal business meetin’. She stayed strong the whole time, I’ll give the lass that.”

We had reached the city edge so I backed the car off, allowing the lights of the mustang to fade from view as we started to ascend the hills. The houses start to spread out the higher we climb and the trees grow more dense.

It wasn’t too long before I was cutting my lights and slowing to a stop. I could see her car now in the driveway of the house up ahead. There were outside fences to the property, but I could guarantee she would have security on all possible entries to the house itself.

If I hadn’t already expected the sound at my window it may have startled me, as it was, it just had both Declan and I exiting the car.

A figure detached from the shadows again and met us at the back of my car. We all looked similar, but Ronan looked a little wilder than me or Dec. Because he is.

His black hair reached his shoulders and when he didn’t let it stay out and wild, he had it tied back at the nape of his neck, like he had it now. It was the opposite of mine; I kept mine short. All three of us had inherited our mother’s green eyes, but the occasional look of crazy in Ro’s eyes belongs completely to him.

He gives Dec a look before passing him a phone. “Did exactly as ya said. Ran straight to it to make sure it was still there.”

Dec chuckles as he looks at the screen. I lean over his shoulder so I could see video of inside the house.

“Well, she has a sense o’ humor. They say diamonds be a girl's bes’ friend.”

I look up from the video of her checking her safe at Ro. “That video don’ look like it was taken from outside da house.”

A smirk spreads across Ro’s lips and judging from the look in his eyes, I’m not sure I want to know how he got the video.

Dec makes a noise that has me looking back at the device in his hand, and I can’t help the shocked chuckle that escapes me.

Once the adrenaline had stopped feeding her panic, it had obviously moved in a totally different direction. The little minx had completely shed all her clothes right there in her office as she stood with her back against the same wall of art where her safe was hidden.

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