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“He said I deserve the perfect kind of love.” Levi blushed. “No one has ever told me that before. And for it to come from a straight man—it hit differently, and it felt good. I don’t think he’ll ever understand how much that meant and still means.”
I squeezed his hand.
“He’s right.” I admitted. “You’re such a sweet soul, Levi, of course Carter’s seen that. I don’t know why bad things happen to good people. But you know I got your back?”
He blushed. “Of course, babes.”
“Okay.” I focused on my meal.
Silence.
“And if you want me to pay Travis a visit, they’d never find his body.” I added after a while.
Levi chortled.
“I know,” he said. “But no need to get all Old Testament badass on him. It’s only a broken heart.”
“Of course.” I teased.
I was back at the house in time for the meeting with Tex, Duke and Wolf. We were all busy trying to figure out who the woman was who hired the bad-guys.
“Could it be Dillon’s mother?” Duke asked.
Everyone turned to look at him.
It’d been an hour of back and forth and no one had brought her up. I was nervous about to because I didn’t know the story there.
“It’s been more than four years now.” Carter shrugged. “That’s a long time to wait to hold a grudge.”
“Not really.” I muttered. “I had a military friend whose mother waited twenty years for revenge.”
“Twenty years?” Wolf asked. “Gah-damn! How did she do that?”
“Refuses to divorce him.” I shrugged. “She waited him out. When he died, they tried to give his new wife his estate, but couldn’t because he wasn’t divorced from the first one.”
“That meant, his second marriage wasn’t legal!” Carter rubbed his eyes. “Well, shit.”
“Look, we aren’t saying that’s what’s happening here.” Tex cut in. “All we’re saying is that no one is above scrutiny right now and nothing is off the table.”
The pain I saw in Carter then, made me want to hold him—or at the very least hold his hand. But I wasn’t sure if he wanted anyone knowing what had happened between us. And he hadn’t had a chance to speak with Dillon about us—damn, there wasn’t even an us.
Forcing myself to sit still, I lifted my chin.
“Look, I’m sure she has nothing to do with this.” I tried encouraging Carter. “I mean, people break up all the time—and why would she have some assholes taking potshots at you? That would leave her son without a father.”
“You’re talking as if—” Charlie paused then waved a hand at me. “Never mind. Look, the question is, how do we find out if she’s involved? There must be a way, right?”
“Yeah—but what is it?” Duke asked. “And what do we do until we figure it out? We can’t keep hiding and the boys have exams coming soon, right?”
Carter nodded.
The exhaustion was palpable in the way he held his body.
“Okay,” I grunted. “Enough is enough.”
“She’s not wrong.” Duke lounged in his seat.
“Wolf, how busy are you?” I asked.
