Page 60 of Love At Close Range

“Me too,” he agreed with another kiss.

I looked at him through the mirror as he kissed me again, but something from dinner had been sitting in the back of my mind since we left the restaurant. “You know what else I noticed tonight?”

“What’s that?” He asked.

“That you kept looking at your phone,” I pointed out. I was not about to go through this bullshit again.

“It was business,” he said before trailing another kiss on my skin.

I turned around in his arms. Normally, I probably would’ve left it alone. Lennox had always had parts of his life that weren’t meant for me to know every detail about, and even when we were younger, I understood that. Things were different now, though. He wasn’t just somebody I was dealing with. He was Rhyse’s father, and whether we had officially called it anything or not, he was making his way back into my life too.

“Is that why you’ve been in Arbor Point?” I asked.

“Initially… yes.” He stared down at me.

“What was the other part before you knew about Rhyse?” I questioned again.

Lennox looked at me for a few seconds before releasing my waist and sitting on the edge of my bed. When he swiped his hand down his face, I knew it was about to be some shit.

“What was it?” I asked.

“Dorian,” he replied with no hesitation.

My eyebrows pulled together. “What about him?”

“That’s why I originally came here,” he repeated.

“For what?” I asked again, wanting him to get to the point.

Lennox glanced toward the bedroom door before looking back at me. “Come sit down.”

“I can hear you from here,” I insisted.

“Reiana,” he called out.

Something in his voice made me move anyway. I sat beside him, turning enough to face him as he rested his forearms against his thighs.

“The real estate shit Dorian does is legit,” he started. “But that ain’t all he’s involved in.”

“What else is he involved in?” I questioned.

“Some street shit. He got himself involved with the wrong people, crossed somebody he shouldn’t have, and it got bad enough for his name to come across mine.”

“What does that mean?” I asked, but I had a feeling I already knew.

His eyes stayed on mine when he answered. “Somebody hired me to kill him.”

For a few seconds, I said nothing. It wasn’t because I didn’t understand what Lennox was telling me. I understood perfectly, and that was the problem.

“You came to Arbor Point to kill Dorian?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he admitted.

“What the fuck, Lennox?” I didn’t even know how I felt right now.

“Keep your voice down. Rhyse is asleep,” he warned as he frowned at me.

“I know where my child is,” I snapped, lowering my voice anyway. “You’re sitting here telling me somebody put a contract on a man who has been inside my house. A man who has picked Rhyse up and been around both of us, and you don’t think I’m going to react?”