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Dane just stared at him, his eyes blank. It actually frightened Jax and he whispered, “Talk to me, Dane” as he ran his thumb over the man’s lower lip. His touch finally elicited a reaction though it wasn’t the one he wanted. It was shame he saw, not desire.
“You should go, Jax. Thank you for everything,” Dane said, then pushed past him and grabbed the car seat and disappeared into the house. Even from where he stood in the driveway, Jax could hear the lock engage. Fucking dismissed like he was nothing. Jax ripped the car seat base out and managed to curb the urge to hurl it at the house. Instead, he trotted up the porch stairs and dropped the base next to the door. He got back in his car and backed out of the driveway and floored it the second he put the car in drive. Two miles later he was pulling over to the side of the road.
“Fuck, fuck, fuck!” he snarled as he slammed his hands down on the steering wheel. He was done! He was fucking done with the guy! So why the hell couldn’t he make himself drive any farther? He snatched up his phone and dialed.
“You cross the border yet?” came the voice on the other end.
“I’m still in Montana.”
There was a sigh on the other end. “Let me guess – it’s complicated.”
“There’s a guy-” Jax began.
“When isn’t there?”
“Fuck off. It’s not like that. He’s got a kid.” He knew the wheels in his friend’s head were already turning so he quickly said, “I think the guy’s in trouble. I just need to make sure before I leave.”
“Okay. You need me to do anything?”
“No. Should just be another day or two,” Jax responded.
“Jax,” the other voice said and Jax tensed at the softness there. “Is it really just about making sure the guy and his kid are safe?”
“Yeah,” Jax said, trying hard to keep the hurt out of his voice. “He thinks I’m shit.” Hell, why had he gone and said that?
Another long pause on the other end of the line. “I’d tell you to let the fucker rot and just come home, but I know you won’t do that so just be careful, okay?”
“Yeah,” Jax said. “See you soon.” He hung up, tossed his phone in the passenger seat and turned the car around and headed back to Dane’s.
ChapterFour
Jax leaned against his car and waited as Rhys pulled his pick-up truck to a stop in front of Dane’s driveway.
“Hey, what’s up?” Rhys asked as he rolled the window down and looked Jax up and down. Jax knew he looked like shit. That’s what sitting up all night in a car staring at a darkened house did to a guy.
“You here to give him a ride to town?” Jax asked.
“Yeah, he called a little while ago. Said the mechanic finished his car.” Rhys glanced at the house, then at Jax’s car. “Are you heading out or something that he didn’t ask you?”
“He thinks I left last night.”
“What’s going on Jax?”
Jax ran his hand through his hair and debated how much to tell Rhys. “It’s just a feeling I have.”
“Bullshit.”
Jax bit back a smile. In another life he suspected he and Rhys would have been great friends and probably more since the ex-cop was exactly his type. He gave Rhys a quick rundown of the possible intruder in Dane’s house as well as the guy following the vet on the street yesterday.
“Does he know?” Rhys asked.
“He thinks he just misplaced the bill. I didn’t tell him about the guy following him. Didn’t want to freak him out over something that’s probably nothing.”
“Yeah, well, any other town and I’d agree with you. So what’s your plan?”
Jax sighed. “Thought I’d hang out for another day or two to check things out.”
“Probably be easier to keep an eye on the hot vet if you were actually in the hot vet’s presence when you did it,” Rhys said with a chuckle.
