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“That’s it, darlin’,” Mike said, his mouth pressing heated kisses to her neck while she dozed against Chase. “You’re ours now.”

Olivia nodded. She felt Mike gently leaving her, then pulling her down onto the bed, off of Chase. She snuggled between them, her arms loosely wrapped Chase’s lower body. Mike pulled her into him, making her his little spoon.

There could be nothing in the world more perfect than this. Nothing that would ever make her want to leave this spot between her two perfect mates.

She was a lucky girl.

ChapterTen

Mike cursed his luck when he heard Jack’s ringtone go off.

The boss was calling them in.

Dammit all to fucking hell.

Mike had just started feeling ready for a nap, too.

But orders were orders, and they’d had a tip come in that there was suspicious activity in the water not ten miles from them.

And that freaked him right the fuck out enough to wake up in a hurry.

Same with Chase, who didn’t need to put his ear to the phone to hear every word Jack said.

Something big had been spotted. Something that didn’t quite look natural to the local environment. Something that couldn’t be an octopus, but they were still to treat the sighting as a potential threat.

Mike got all the information he needed and then returned his attention to Olivia, who sat naked on the bed, perfect breasts high, nipples still tight and rosy, but the steely look on her face was what showed her dedication.

She wasn’t reluctant to get out of bed or wanting to tuck into the covers and ignore whatever was going on out in the real world. She was ready to throw on some clothes and get to work.

She surprised him though when she went into the bathroom and turned the water on. “I probably need to get the scent of you two off of me, as much as I can anyway. Don’t need any of that lingering as protection against a predator.”

She was right. The kraken shifter might scent two alpha males on her and decide not to risk messing with her. Mike loved that she thought of it.

Chase and Mike joined her in the shower, careful to avoid any extra touching that would put their scent back on her. “A local spotted something slithering in the water not too far from here,” Chase said. “The description didn’t fit anything with tentacles, but it’s worth testing.”

“If it’s not a kraken, then it’s probably not our guy, but we’re going anyway?” Mike knew that Olivia held a lot of guilt by association with the case. It was as though a kraken shifter murderer automatically made her a villain.

He didn’t want her to feel that way. “It was never a certainty that the one responsible for killing those people was a kraken like you,” Mike said. If that hadn’t been clear before then, he wanted to make that very clear right now. “We always have to keep the options open.”

“But the markings on the bodies—“

“Could have still come from the natural wildlife,” Chase said, and Mike had to admit, he loved the guy for sounding just as certain about this as Mike felt about it.

He was so done with the people in the office getting their panties in a bunch because the killer had possibly been an octopus shifter or even a kraken shifter.

Enough with that shit. There were other shifters in the ocean, and enough of them could be psychotic.

“Jack reports that it wasn’t just some dark sighting we’re going after. Someone was attacked by it. Tried dragging a young man into the water before his friends heard him screaming and chased it off.”

Olivia’s eyes widened. “Jesus.”

“Yeah,” Mike said quietly, trying to not imagine Olivia in that situation.

“You need to get ready,” Chase said, hopping out of the shower. Mike followed.

“Right. You’re right.” She stepped out, grabbed a towel, and went to her wardrobe.

Mike certainly didn’t mind the view from behind as she pulled out clean clothes and quickly dressed. It wasn’t lost on him the way she did so without a worry for who was watching, either.

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