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

Link. “I paid you to guard my body, and it’s going to Dallas to shop. I have a new smoking-hot man I must impress. This is important.”
    Link’s lips drew a straight line, then he muttered, “You were fine the way you were, babe.”
    That made her feel so good that she stopped attacking him with her nail and sat back.
    “Sometimes,” Tess told Link, “a woman just has to update.”
    Link shrugged, while Carly exclaimed, “Okay, champagne time!”
    Coco was pleased to see Link helped them open the champagne, and he even took some in a paper cup as opposed to the ladies’ crystal flutes. It was amazing, and she barely felt like an old suburban wife who had been left for another woman.
    She could try to cover the hurt with new hair and clothes, but she didn’t think it came close to healing like having new girlfriends did, or having a hot and sexy special agent in her bed.
    Coco flipped back a long strand of her blond hair and she lifted her glass for a toast.
    All the ladies and Link clinked glasses, as she declared, “To the new me that’s just been waiting to bust out!”
    “To cheating ex-husbands getting rotten genital diseases!” Rusty declared.
    Tess sputtered a laugh at Rusty’s outrageous toast, as they all did, before she exclaimed, “To new friends and BFFs!”
    “To each one of our new men, who are so alpha and smoking hot we need this cold champagne to cool us down!” Carly said.
    Then Link surprised them all by growling a sort of toast. “To four sexy and damn hot women that better do what I tell them, when I tell them, if I see something I don’t damn well like.”
    All the ladies paused from touching Link’s cup with their flutes, while he looked at them, intent and serious.
    Coco broke the suspense by asking, “Sugar, you really think we are sexy and hot?”
    Coco’s mind was blown a second later, when it looked as if Link might have blushed a little, as he nodded, then he added, “Hell yeah.”
    Her posse smiled, and then they all toasted, with Tess saying, “Link, honey, we will follow your protection orders.”
    Carly added, “It’s something we already learned from our men.”
    Coco nodded as they all sat back. “I’ve been learning that Finn is big into protection too.”
    Then Carly cocked her head at Link and said, “Link, why don’t you have a girlfriend?”
    That started it! And Coco happily helped delved into Link’s dating life, while he groaned and gave curt answers, which showed the ladies that they really needed to find a match for him, because he was doing poorly on his own.
    But the best came when they turned their attention to their hot young driver Jagger.
    “You’re dating Blue , Jagger? Oh my God, I didn’t know that!” Rusty exclaimed.
    Coco saw Rusty looking at Tess, and then Carly whispered to Coco, in case she didn’t know, which Coco was certain she didn’t, “Blue is Caval Rome’s daughter.”
    Coco raised an eyebrow, while thinking that Caval might not like his daughter dating what looked like the cross between a rock star and a bad boy. But then again, they had to be old enough where Dad’s only recourse was to be worried, but not able to tell them what to do.
    “I am,” Jagger answered from the driver’s seat. “Blue and I go on our second date tomorrow night.”
    Coco watched Rusty as she scooted forward and grabbed Jagger’s shoulder from behind. “Honey, her father will kill if you try to get in there.”
    Jagger and Link both snorted, with Jagger saying, “No shit. I do not want on his bad side.”
    Link offered, “You might live, kid.”
    Rusty sat back, and then leaned toward Tess to whisper, “What happen with her and Justice?”
    Tess shrugged. “It’s just them dating around, I guess.”
    “Angel?” Carly asked in a whisper.
    They both shook their heads with small shrugs.
    “Last person I heard had seen her was Sam. He said he’d hired her to do some tribal council work, and then event planning for Redrock. Took her