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Baylee kept cooking as if the fact that her young child playing in shaving cream was of no consequence to her.
“What do you have against cops?”She asked inquiringly.
Looking around the empty room, I ascertained it was empty before explaining.
“When I was sixteen, I was pulled over by an unmarked police car. Or what I’d thought at the time was a police car. It had the lights, and even the siren. When I pulled over, he stepped up to my passenger side window and asked me to get out. What I didn’t learn until later was that he was impersonating a cop, and he’d already raped three other women in two other parishes. I was his fourth victim, or would’ve been if it weren’t for a few teenagers trying to boost a car a half a block down from us. His fifth victim was killed, and they caught him in Mississippi three days later trying to do the same thing again,” I said quietly.
Why I’d just told all of that to a virtual stranger, I didn’t know. But Baylee was easy to talk to. She just kept cooking her scrambled eggs, and didn’t judge me in the least.
It also didn’t hurt that I knew she cared for Loki, and only wanted the best for him.
I saw the affection in her eyes for him when she’d opened the door.
“Does Loki know what happened?” She asked quietly glancing at the doorway behind me and back to me quickly.
I let my eyes drift to the doorway to find Sebastian leaning against the door jam, his eyes on his feet, and his hands clenched into tight fists at his sides.
Glancing away from his overpowering figure quickly, I nodded in affirmation. “Yes, most of it. I haven’t gotten into thenittygritty with him, but I have a feeling Cabe let him know everything he knew about it. Or at least I hope. It’s not really something I like to revisit all that much.”
The doorbell rang, and heavy footfalls went from the doorway to the kitchen, through the living room, and stopped at the front door to let someone in.
A cacophony of noises came from the living room, and I got up and edged closer to the door and watched the living room fill with people.
Some wore leather vests, while others wore regular t-shirts; even Trance was there.
But he was in his police uniform, and I immediately stiffened at the sight of him.
“Trance works as a K-9 officer,” Baylee said quietly from behind me. “He’s one of the sweetest men you’ll ever meet, and he loves his wife dearly. Just last week, I saw him pick out baby cowboy boots for his new nephew. Trance’s wife is a twin. I promise, he would not be in this house with my kids if he was a bad person.”
I relaxed minutely as she spoke, and finally relaxed enough to study Trance.
He had blonde curly hair, and his build was smaller than Loki’s was, but no less powerful.
He looked sharp in his navy blue police uniform, and the dog at his side was gorgeous.
“He’s got two different color eyes. He’s beautiful,” I said in surprise.
Baylee’s giggle burst free and she covered her mouth with her hand. “Whatever you do, don’t say that in front of him. He’s so sensitive about his looks.”
My eyes moved from Trance to the other men in the room.
The older one I remembered from when Loki had met them outside his house in only his towel.
The man was hard to forget with his salt and pepper hair, muscled build, leather biker vest, and his goatee that hung to mid chest.
The fact that it was braided didn’t help, either.
The man looked badass.
In fact, if I were to think of any man to portray what I imagined a biker would look like, that man would surely be it.
“Who’s the guy with the beard?” I whispered.
Baylee looked around the room with her lips pursed. “There are like, four men in the room with beards. Do you mean Silas, the one with the gray hair? That’s the one you’re looking at right now.”
I nodded. “Yeah, him.”
“That’s Sebastian’s dad, Silas. He’s the president of The Dixie Wardens. He’s also a jerk at first, so don’t hold it against him,” she informed me.
