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“No, he’s not good.” Helena hovered near me, her hands fluttering as if she wasn’t sure to touch me or not.
Because she felt guilty that she’d just been in Kain’s arms?
Maybe even in his bed?
Even as the unwelcome thought registered, I denied it.No.I refused to believe she could’ve done that after what we’d shared.
Yeah, you sure acted as if you were full of trust, jackass.
“I can answer for myself.” My voice held more of a growl than I’d intended.
She flinched once before the icy calm I remembered from the wedding descended over her face. “Fine, beat yourselves bloody.”
“Haleigha, c’mon. It’s over with. I mean, if he wants to go another round, I will, but I think he got it out of his system.”
“Got it out—” Helena broke off and tugged at the brim of her ball cap before twirling to stalk off only to turn around and come right back. “You’re both unbelievable.”
Kain licked the corner of his mouth. At least his lip was busted from one of my fists. “This is nothing. You should see some of the fights me and Ronan have been in over the years. Funnily enough, Ronan pounded on me for a similar reason.” He laughed. “I’m flattered all of you think I’m so irresistible to your women.”
“I’m not his woman,” she snapped.
“You sure about that?” Kain’s grin got wider. “Not sure why he’d come at me like the Tasmanian Devil unlesshethought so.” He hissed out a breath as his lip split open again. “Damn, you do have a good hook, bruh.”
“Back at you,” I muttered.
“Anytime you want to spar, I’ll show you how to actually hit your target more than twenty percent of the time.” He winked.
“Fuck you.”
He threw his head back and laughed. “You two have some talking to do it seems.” Kain waggled his eyebrows at Helena. “You neglected to tell me you had another man on the hook.”
She shut her eyes and stalked away. This time, she made a beeline for the taproom and met Cara at the bottom of the steps.
Cara kept peering around Helena to where I stood with Kain and then back to Helena. I couldn’t hear what they were talking about, but then again, it felt as if my head was full of cotton at the moment.
What was she doing with Kain? Had she been with him before?
Not that I could be mad about it. We all had a past, but the way she’d been snugged up against him made my blood boil once more.
“Don’t get that look in your eye again. I still have to cook three more courses for the staff dinner tonight.”
I held my side as I picked up what was left of the chair.
Kain grabbed the other piece and we walked it over to the workshop. “Do I need to ask your intentions with Helena?”
“Is it any of your business?”
He snorted. “No. But I’ll ask anyway. She’s had shit luck when it comes to men. I don’t want to see her get hurt.”
“She wasn’t supposed to be here. I thought she was on her way back to the city.”
“And yet you can flying at me like a madman?” He made a humming sound and broke apart the chair, tossing the pieces in the woodbox just inside the barn door.
Once I was out of eyeshot from the crowd that had gathered, I sagged against the wall. “Jesus, you got vibranium in those fists?”
“Good old Hawaiian bones.” He wandered over to the leather couch and dropped into it, then he nodded at me. “Sit.” When I hesitated, he kicked out the club chair. “Sit before you fall down,lolo.”
I didn’t know what that meant, but it probably wasn’t complimentary. I lowered myself gingerly into the chair as I took a quick stock of all my aches. I was pretty sure Kain had pulled most of his punches, and I should’ve been more pissed about that than I was.
