Free Their Ex's Redrock Twilight (Texas Alpha) (Texas Alpha Series Book 4) by Shirl Anders Page B

had an escort, whether she wanted one or not, and that chaperon was Caval. Well, with all the tracking of her and high-end, nasty bad guys, she supposed she was glad he was going to stick with her. Except for that devilish smile he gave her, which was right on the edge of crazy.
    “You know, princess, I know a little bit about sleazy ex’s. If you want, I can get rid of him for you,” Caval drawled in a deliciously deep voice.
    Coco’s eyes widened as she put the keys in the ignition.
    “Um ... no, honey.” She gulped, seeing the look in Caval’s eyes. He really meant that. Further, she totally believed he could do it. “I’ll just divorce him,” she said.
    “A man shouldn’t mess around with a sweet woman like you, princess,” Caval told her. “But I get that you just want to be civil and divorce the bastard. I did that with my ex-wife, just divorced her, even as much as I wanted to do more. I did it for my daughter. But you say the word, and I’ll just fuck with him a little bit.”
    The look on Caval’s face sent different shivers across Coco’s shoulders, and the edgy intent on his hard jaw showed through the sharp promise in his light green eyes. But the next second his eyes were a dark hazel gray with a wicked light, and she wondered how irises could change like that.
    As much as he made her nervous in all kinds of ways, she couldn’t say she wasn’t a little bit touched that he’d offer to do that for her. He’d even tempted her a tiny bit. So she decided that underneath it all he was probably a good man, quite edgy, but he wasn’t taking the money to track her and haul her back to whoever had paid for that service. Instead, he was escorting her home.
    Then she decided that after discovering your husband was having an affair, it didn’t hurt at all to have a smoking-hot man flirt with you. Better than that, it didn’t hurt at all to be the woman in Finn O’Neil’s bed. Still, she couldn’t be called Southern and a woman if she didn’t return Caval’s flirt a little bit.
    “Honey, if you want a drink once we get there, we’ll have to stop for something on the way,” she told him.
    When she looked, Caval’s gaze smoldered her way.
    “You call me honey and offer me a drink, and princess, I’m all yours.”
    Coco smiled and then added a toss of her hair. “I’m taken, sugar. But you sure are tempting.”
    “He ever gets stupid and lets you get away, you promise to call me and give me a chance.”
    Coco would never tell anyone about the thrill that washed through her, but it sure felt good. She didn’t think a man like Caval played around with women. She bet that when he went after a woman, he was very serious about it.
    Caval stopped to buy her a very expensive bottle of tequila. It was Cuervo Reserved, and it had to be worth over a hundred dollars. The only reason she knew that was because Patty Ann was a tequila connoisseur.
    But then, Caval didn’t come inside Finn’s lake house to drink it with her.
    Instead, outside Finn’s front door he handed it to her as he said, “This bottle isn’t going to get me off the hook with Finn, seeing as I’ve been spending quality time with you and all, princess. But it might smooth him out a bit.”
    Coco looked up at him, scrunching her nose.
    “This is for Finn?” she asked, looking down at the brown paper sack with bottle inside it.
    “Yep,” Caval said, with a side lifting of his lips.
    Coco looked at the lake house’s front door, and then she looked back at Caval. “You’re not coming in?”
    Just then, a black SUV pulled up the long driveway.
    For one second Coco got nervous, before Caval said, “That’s my ride, princess. And no way am I going into Finn’s house, with his woman, alone, even as much as I’d like to. No one knows you’re here, so you will be safe until your man gets here, as long as you keep those pretty lips from telling anybody you are here.”
    Well, Coco had been starting to get miffed, but when Caval