Page 52 of Two Tickets to Paradise

Her brain went haywire.

She stepped to the side to see him and that's when her towel fell to the floor.

"Oh my-" "Cora?"

Cameron clapped a hand over his eyes and turned around. "Nobody look!"

That's when she realized that it wasn't just her brother who was home. The other three members of his team who shared the house were all there.

Two heads dropped down and a third turned around to face the street.

"Cam! What are you doing home?"

"What am I- It's my house!"

She crouched down with one arm wrapped across her chest and snatched up the towel in her hand.

"I've got you covered."

It killed her to hear Vince's reassuring words.

Goodness Gracious! How was she going to get over this humiliation?

"You've got some nerve!"

She struggled to wrap the towel around herself and secure it in some way. "Cam-"

"You waited until you were alone in the house to paw at my sister?"

"Paw?" Cora's voice squeaked out of her throat. "Cam-"

"Shut up, Cora!"

She tried to walk around Vince, but he reached back, wrapped an arm around her waist and herded her back behind him. "Don't talk to her that way!"

"You don't get to tell me how I talk to my sister! You're the one who was trying to fu-"

"I said, don't talk to her that way!"

"I'll talk to her any damn way I-"

"Axl! Man, back it down."

Cora couldn't move around the arm holding her back, but she was able to lean to the side and see around Vince's other arm.

Buck and Riptide both had an arm, and they were walking Cam back through the front door.

"Get your fucking hands off of me!"

"Not until you calm down."

Buck's tone wasn't loud, but he wasn't allowing any room for an argument.

Cora lifted a hand to wipe at tears that were pooling against her lashes. "Let me go, Vince."

She expected a bit of push back, but instead, Vince lowered his arm to his side and turned his head toward her and spoke softly. "You sure?"

"Yeah. I'm not worried about Cam hurting me. You, on the other hand, probably wouldn't be so lucky."

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