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“Shit,” he muttered.
“She’s coming over here!” Indy hissed.
And she was.
Cherry Blackwell, his ex.
She was not a woman he liked. She’d tried to trap him with a baby, something which wasn’t conducive to a copacetic breakup.
She was talented in certain areas, but mostly a bitch.
More recently, he didn’t like her because she’d confronted Indy and her posse at Twin Dragons. No reason for her to do it. Lee and Cherry had been over for years.
That was just total bitch.
Lee didn’t like failure. He took great pains to avoid it.
He considered his attraction to Cherry Blackwell a failure.
It was true, she hid the fact she was a complete bitch from him, because she liked him.
That didn’t negate the fact he’d missed it, and that wasn’t his style.
“Cherry, don’t,” he warned low when she stopped at their table.
Though, he had to wince. There were still-healing shrapnel scores on her face.
Cherry didn’t listen to him, which presented evidence as to why he’d been with her.
She had attitude. She didn’t simper or give into everything he wanted because she wanted him. Both he found boring, and both were surefire that he wouldn’t stick around.
Mostly, though, he never got deep with anyone because he was timing his move on Indy.
But Cherry did play games, he just caught it too late.
“You got me exploded!” she shrieked at Indy.
Immediately, Lee slid out of the booth. “Cherry, calm down.”
She whirled on him. “Fuck calm, Lee. Yourbitchgot meexploded! My car is a total write-off, andlook at me!” she screeched, pointing both hands, fingers straight, nails perfectly manicured, to her face.
In that moment, he gave zero shits about the cuts on her face, the fact he knew she was in the hospital for burn treatment for three days, the fact she probably was still healing in a variety of places on her body now covered with clothes, or the pain all that caused. Even after she’d pulled the shit on him that she’d pulled, he cared when her car exploded, after it exploded, and when she walked toward them moments ago.
Now, he didn’t think about it.
He also gave zero shits that, with Cherry being loud, people were turning to watch.
Something clicked, and when that something clicked, there was no way to turn it off.
That something being about Indy, it’d take an act of God to turn it off.
Therefore, Lee got close to Cherry, bent his head to look down at her, and growled, “What did you call my woman?”
“Lee,” Indy said soothingly, and he sensed her movement to get out of the booth.
He turned only his head to her. “Stop moving.”
For once, she didn’t talk back, just stared at him with big eyes and ceased all movement.
