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the screen of her laptop. “Deadly?”
    Parker didn’t look up from his screen. “That’s a good thing, babe.”
    “Right. And they’re clean enough.”
    He nodded. The records showed skirmishes here and there—nothing that couldn’t be expected from men who operated at the caliber of Titan’s people.
    “Your ice cream’s melting,” she said. “And I need another beer if we’re going to stare at the same data all night.”
    “No.” He pushed his chair from the table and stretched as he stood. “Come on. We’re done.”
    “Jax and Locke are too far away.”
    “Right,” he agreed. Locke worked private ops in London, and Jax was on the West Coast. Titan could drop someone in to do the recon on them in person. No need for the Sugar-Lexi road trip to go trans-Atlantic or cross-country.
    “So Bishop’s our guy.”
    Parker wrapped his arms around her chest, pressing her back to him, leading her to the couch. “Bishop’s your guy. Be easy on him.” He kissed her cheek. “And by be easy , I mean don’t do anything.”
    “I know. But still, this is exciting.”
    He plopped them both down, and Lexi curled into his arms while he surfed the channels for something sports related. With a football-classics channel on in the background, he tied her hair around his finger and watched her smoky eyes flutter open and closed. “So exciting, you’re falling asleep.”
    “Stop it.” She turned in the crook of his arm. “You get to play cops and robbers all the time. Sugar does. Everyone does. I think it’s neat even if I just get to sit in a car and listen to my girl babble about her spot-on gut feeling. It’s something different.”
    Parker pressed a kiss to the top of her head. “Just be careful.”
    “How much trouble can we get into watching a guy grocery shop or whatever?”
    His rumbling laugh met hers. With Sugar, they both knew the answer.
    “Alright. Of course we’ll be careful.”
    “Good.” He let go of a piece of her platinum-blond hair. “Go to sleep, and I’ll carry you to bed.”
    Lexi turned over on her chest. “Why am I going to sleep?”
    “Uh… sports? Because your eyes are shut?”
    “I’m a full-fledged spy girl now.”
    “Alright, spy girl. You don’t need to sleep.”
    “Maybe I do. Either way, I know this isn’t technically how you guys scout your new team members. But really, Sugar was going stir-crazy. She needed to feel as though she was still important to your team.”
    “Of course she is.”
    “I just kind of know that there’s something unexplainable about being pregnant and having folks handle you with kid gloves. It has to be a first for her.”
    He cackled. “No one’s treating her any different.”
    “Bull. Even Sugar’s treating herself different.”
    Parker squeezed Lexi tight. “We take care of our own.”
    As she snuggled into his chest, her previous life seemed a thousand miles away, yet she knew he was dead serious. “I love you, and I love being part of your world.”
    “It’s not just this job, Lex. Or what you do for Jared behind a computer screen.” He kissed the top of her head. “You are our world. Once you’re in, you’re in. Titan for life.”
     
    ***
    Parker and Jared had their arms crossed over their chests as Sugar inspected the last bag they’d packed into her Range Rover. “Alrighty, boys. Don’t worry.”
    “Famous last words,” Jared grumbled.
    “Do you feel like all we’ve been saying and hearing is Don’t worry ?” Parker added, eyeing Jared and, from Sugar’s vantage point, possibly antagonizing him on purpose.
    “Seriously.” Sugar gave Parker the stink eye then raised her eyebrow at her husband. “You’re acting like I can’t do anything because I’m pregnant.”
    Jared took a boot-cladded step forward. “No.”
    “Yes.”
    “Kind of,” Lexi said. “Super-protective, alpha-to-the-max Jared. We get it. But—”
    “I’ve literally packed gummy bears to snack on.” Sugar matched Jared’s step