Page 16 of Menace

“What the fuck are kegels?” Brendan muttered.

“No idea, sounds like some kind of fancy exercise routine.” Rory answered with a shrug.

“Babe, my cousin is a dick.” Finn tried to reassure me. “His baby mamma kicked him to the curb shortly after Sammy was born. He was most probably lying to take the attention away from how much of a dick he was and still is.”

Too late. In my head all I could see was a gaping train tunnel, big, dark and scary.

Narrowing my eyes I concentrated on doing deep kegels, no better time to start than right now.

“What are you thinking?” Aidan asked as he leant over, staring at my face.

“Not thinking, doing. Doing my kegels, right the hell now.” I muttered.

“But you’re not moving.” He looked totally confused as did most of the others.

Not Asa though.

“Fuck, you guys need to get with the times. Kegels are exercises a woman does to keep her vagina tight. It happens inside her body, you can’t see when they do it.” He grinned. “But you will definitely enjoy the results.”

“I need to google that shit.” Aidan pulled out his phone and started tapping away.

And there I sat, surrounded by a group of gorgeous badass men googling kegels. Was it a bit weird? I suppose so, but I wasn’t embarrassed or offended. They were like a bunch of intrusive brothers, always up in your business.

Asa stood, patted my leg and went back to lounging in his chair. Shaking his head at his friends he gave me a grin and a wink. Ever since he smuggled me out of Cape Town we’ve been growing closer, becoming friends. Friends, because we weren’t attracted to each other. I wasn’t blind, the man was incredibly gorgeous but we didn’t have that spark between us. Without the spark we were good friends and that was more than enough for me.

I have always found it easier to befriend guys, they didn’t ask as many questions as women did.

Until Rider.

Unlike most men, he had insisted on being told everything when we became friends. Most women were the same, when they became your friend they wanted to know every single detail of your life.

I didn’t trust easily therefore it was something I couldn’t give those who had tried to befriend me.

That was why I didn’t have any girlfriends.

Pixie was my first.

She had shoved her way past my walls and did the unthinkable, became my friend without asking intrusive questions.

Before her I had always made sure not to get too close to people just in case my family found me.

And now they have.

“Do you think Pixie is safe?” I asked softly.

“Absolutely. There’s no way Dom or Remy will allow anyone to get near her. I can assure you she has protection on her every single second of every day. The same with Dom’s wife and kid.”

Leaning towards me Liam put a hand on top of my clenched ones and squeezed softly.

“Stop worrying, they’re all safe. The fuckers are no longer in Cape Town anyway, they’re back here.”

My body turned into a frozen statue and my eyes snapped up, meeting Asa’s. He lounged in his big chair, totally relaxed.

“We have eyes on them, sweetheart. We’ll know if they become a problem, and I can assure you we won’t allow them to get close. Relax, we don’t want you stressed, it’s bad for the baby.” His voice was a low rumble, soothing my fear.

The man was super potent. He was going to make some woman very happy one day.

Tapping the fingers of one hand on the desk he instantly had the attention of his men.

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