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“Dax what?” Gareth ignores me and studies Dax, grimacing as he eyes the bird neck tattoo.
“Silver.” Dax straightens, tightening his grip on my hip.
“Right.” Gareth’s face clears with understanding. “You’re the boss. Well, I hope you don’t mind me borrowing Rose to take her for dinner. She and I have a lot of shared history.” He looks at me and his lips curl into a smile.
“Boyfriend.”
“Sorry?” Gareth snaps his eyes back to meet Dax’s.
“I’m the boyfriend.”
I suck in a subtle breath at the casual way Dax delivers it. But there’s no mistaking the undertone. It’s the same one that came out when that guy grabbed me in the bar. When Dax called me his girl and then slung me over his shoulder.
I shouldn’t like the territorial dominance seeping from Dax’s pores, but I can’t stop heat firing low in my belly, making me need to clamp my thighs together.
No one has ever claimed me as theirs so blatantly. Gareth certainly never displayed even a hint of the passion Dax does toward me.
My eyes ping-pong between the two of them as Gareth straightens up, noticing Dax’s hand curled around my hip.
He laughs, then looks between the two of us. “You’re not her type. Nice try though. You one of Brett’s friends? Is this a joke?” He looks behind us as if expecting my brother to appear, telling him it’s a ruse.
“Maybe her type changed away from selfish pricks.”
My eyes bug in my head, and I look at Dax, whose jaw is ticking as he glares at Gareth.
Shit.Why did I have to tell him about Gareth and what he did? I should have left it at ‘my ex took a new job and moved away,’ not ‘my ex tricked me into losing my virginity to him, at the same time as planning how he was going to dump me.’ Because now Dax looks ready to squish Gareth like a bug.
I wrap my hand around Dax’s tense bicep. “Let’s go back to the table.”
“Who are you calling a prick?” Gareth squares up to Dax, faltering briefly as he has to tilt his head to look up.
“Dax.” I tug on his arm, but he’s unmoving.
“She won’t be going to dinner with you. Not now. Not ever. She was always too good for you. Accept it.” He turns, placing his hand on my lower back to lead me away.
“Rose? You cannot be serious. He looks like he’s out of jail after robbing a bank!” Gareth’s incredulous voice slams into my back, and I halt, glancing at Dax. He catches my eye, and I shake my head.Ignore him.
His jaw ticks before he looks at Gareth over his shoulder.
“GBH, actually.”
“What?”
“GBH,” Dax repeats. “I got out of jail after beating the shit out of another prick.”
Gareth’s mouth drops wide, flapping like a fish. If the tension in the air wasn’t making my stomach twist with impending dread, then it would be comical. But the heat radiating from Dax has my defenses on high alert. I know he has a temper. But I don’t want my idiot of an ex being the reason he gets in trouble with the law again. They’ll be harder on him because of his record.
“Dax.” I plead with my eyes as he drags his penetrating stare from Gareth. His eyes soften as they meet mine, and he strokes my lower back, walking again.
Gareth snorts behind us. “Fine. But watch out, Rose. He’ll probably give you a disease. They all fuck each other in the ass in jail.”
Dax rushes Gareth faster than I can blink and has him pressed against the wall with a tense forearm across his windpipe, pinning him in place. Gareth’s toes dance against the floor as Dax leans closer and whispers something in his ear.
Gareth’s eyes widen.
Then Dax drops him as fast as he grabbed him and is back at my side, leading me away. I glance back at Gareth. He’s white as a sheet and rubbing his neck.
“What did you say to him? Dax?” I hiss when he doesn’t answer.
