Limitless

Table of Contents Limitless Copyright Dedication Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Epilogue Other Titles by C.B. Noy Acknowledgements Copyright © 2023 by C.B. Noy All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Cover Design by Jena Brignola Editing by Karen Hrdlicka Formatting by CP Smith This book is for MY TRIBE~ You know who you are. XOXOXO Prologue Rico A few months ago. SO THIS WAS it. Mountain Grove. I’d been here for a few days but other than leaving my hotel room to meet up with my brother Gabriel “Gabe,” I hadn’t left my dinky hotel room. I was used to the hustle and bustle of Atlanta, Georgia, with all the sights and sounds of big city living without being jam-packed with people, like New York City. So the idea of moving our business, Quattro Security, to the small mountain town in Western Maryland made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. Wait. Let me backtrack a bit. My brothers, Gabriel, Luciano, Allesandro, and I started Quattro Security a few years ago after Gabe had been injured on a mission for the Army. Our company not only provided physical security, we trained various police forces in hand-to-hand combat, had a gun range at our facility designed for special weapons training, and were known for our information gathering and article retrieval abilities. While I was proficient in all of the above, my niche was cybersecurity. I’d been recruited into the FBI as a hacker almost straight out of high school, while each of my brothers had followed in our father’s footsteps by enlisting into various branches of the military. We now used our different skill sets to aid in both the private sector, as well as the occasional government contract we took on. Separately, we were dangerous, but together, we were lethal. Gabe had taken a call a few weeks back which altered the course of his life, and as it turned out…ours. One of his oldest friends, Caleb Matthews, who was also the chief of police in Mountain Grove, had met the love of his life. They were having some issues with her ex and asked for Gabe’s assistance. Next thing I knew, Gabe was buying a house and before long, we’d be packing up our company and moving almost seven hundred miles north because, like Caleb, he’d fallen in love. I had no idea what the fuck was in the water in Maryland, but there wasn’t a chance in hell you’d catch me drinking it. I’d take the bottled stuff from here on out, thank you very much. The strangest part of the entire situation was discovering the pregnant woman I’d helped get a new identity, almost a year ago, was the one who’d captured his heart. Cate had been on the run and, at the time, I had no clue what or who she’d been hiding from. Turned out, she’d been engaged to a mafia capo with a penchant for murder. Which was why I was currently playing bodyguard. Ma and Pop, along with my brothers, Alec and Luc, decided to show up unexpectedly on Gabe’s doorstep over the weekend. Those two fuckers knew we had a situation brewing, but did nothing to stop my parents from jumping on a plane to come meet their future daughter-in-law and grandson. While Gabe and Alec had a meeting at the police station, Cate wanted to give the rest of us a tour of the town. We’d finished lunch and the women decided they wanted to take a stroll down Main Street to check out some of the stores. They stopped in front of a shop called To A Tea and after a brief discussion, walked through the front door. “Welcome,” a melodic voice called from behind the counter. “I’m River. The owner and maker of all things tea related.” I looked up after I finished sending a text to Alec and stopped dead in my tracks. Thank God I’d handed Miller, Cate’s son, to Pop before we came in because I was afraid I might have dropped him. It was like I’d been struck by lightning, not that I knew firsthand exactly how it felt, but electricity coursed through my body. The hair on my arms stood at attention and my cock twitched behind the zipper of my jeans. I’d never had a reaction like this to a woman before, but I had a feeling the little pixie behind the counter wasn’t just any other woman. She was tiny, barely over five feet, with long, dark-brown hair pulled back into a braid. When she stepped around the counter to greet us, I nearly choked on a laugh. It had nothing to do with the rainbow-colored T-shirt or the pale-yellow floor-length skirt she was wearing, but everything to do with the fact she was barefoot. In the middle of winter. This girl had flair and an obvious “I don’t give a fuck” attitude, which I loved. Whoa. Loved? I’d been staring at the little beauty for far too long, which became obvious when Luc nudged me in the ribs with his elbow. I listened with rapt attention as River explained the contents of her store to the girls. “Yes, ma’am. I grew up in a commune of sorts, where we had to make