Page 60 of Whisper Of Attraction (Whisper Lake 3)

CHAPTER 18

Axel woke with a start. The first sensation he was aware of was something wet on the bottom of his foot and the second was an obnoxious buzzing sound. He jerked his foot back and opened his eyes at the same time. It took a moment for him to adjust to the light, but when he did, he saw Lucy’s big brown eyes staring at him from the foot of the bed.

Brynn’s bed. That’s where he was.

He turned his head to the side.

She was nowhere to be seen. The vibration sounded again and it dawned on him that it was his phone. He checked the nightstand but it wasn’t there. He sat up, swinging his feet off the side of the bed and picked his sweats up off the floor. When he did he felt his phone in the pocket.

He pulled it out and saw that he had two missed calls from Nate.

Shit.

There was a voicemail, but he didn’t bother listening to it. He pressed the phone icon to dial him back.

“Where are you?” Nate clipped. The man got right to the point. Axel appreciated that.

Axel ran his fingers through his hair as he looked around Brynn’s bedroom. He figured that whoever was on surveillance duty last night would’ve noted him going into Brynn’s house and also noted that he hadn’t left.

“In the main house.”

“So you know that you have company.”

“What company?” Axel was on his feet pulling his sweats on and looking around the room for anything he could use as a weapon. “How many?”

“Two. But it’s not that kind of company.” Axel could hear the amusement in Nate’s voice. “It’s your sister.”

“My what?” Axel froze.

“Where are you?”

“Main house?”

“Where?”

“Bedroom.” Axel couldn’t believe he was having this conversation, and he also couldn’t believe that he’d slept through Brynn getting up and not one but two fucking people coming to the door.

“Izzy just showed up at Brynn’s front door.”

What the hell?

“You said two.”

“Jessa Myers is there, too.”

Damn. It was a regular full house.

“Thanks for the heads up.” Axel knew that with the developments of last night, he needed to speak to Seth and get reassigned. “Is Sloan in today?”

“No.”

He hated bothering his boss on his day off, especially to tell him that he’d fucked up. Literally. But this couldn’t wait until Monday.

“If he comes in, can you let him know I need to speak to him?”

“Will do.”

Axel disconnected the call and started to head out to the front room, but stilled after two steps. He’d spent the night with Brynn, but he wasn’t sure she’d want Jess to know that. And he wasn’t sure he wanted Izzy to know that.

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