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“No disturbance. My audience was enjoying themselves.”
“Apparently, but the show’s over. It’s time to come home.”
“And where is that exactly, Grumpy Bear? Your house? Vancouver? Timbuktu? Where am I supposed to go?” she asked as she swayed on the spot.
“Don’t be ridiculous, Skylar. We’re going to our house,” he sighed.
Skylar swayed on her feet as she crossed her arms and stomped her foot. “I didn’t think there was anything that was ours.”
“Now you’re just trying to piss me off. Now come with me or I’ll carry you out; which one will it be?”
Skylar huffed, sending strands of her hair flying off her face as she continued to sway on the spot.
“Alright, you had your chance.” Without hesitating, Dyllan picked a squealing Skylar up and threw her over his shoulder fireman-style and stomped through the crowd. Catcalls and whistles filled the room, but Dyllan ignored them all. His vision turned red at how their day had turned out.
“What do I owe you?” Dyllan asked Zach as he stopped briefly at the bar, ignoring Skylar’s pounding fists on his ass.
“Oh, I think the show was quite enough,” Zach said, laughing.
“Fuck me,” Dyllan grumbled as he carried his drunken wife out to his truck.
Chapter Twenty-Three
Skylar
“So let me get this straight, you turned down a job offer in Vancouver—which I totally understand—but Dyllan went all Grumpy Bear on you anyway?” Lila asked as she took a sip of her coffee and leaned against the back of the counter at Charmed Bakery.
“Yup,” Skylar answered before taking a bite of her cinnamon roll from her seat at the table next to the counter. She let the sweet, woodsy flavour fill her senses, momentarily distracting her from her raging hangover.
“Does it have to do with the job he was thinking of taking?” Mandy asked, sitting next to Skylar as she picked at her Fruit Burst Muffin.
“Yup,” Skylar answered with a mouth full of delicious, sugary roll. The carbs were helping with her headache and nausea but didn’t touch the hole that had been left in her heart.
“Just because he was thinking about it doesn’t mean he’s going to take it,” Kade said from beside Lila.
“You didn’t hear him talk about it, Kade. You should’ve seen how torn up he was when we were at Deanna’s.”
“He took you to Deanna’s?” Lila asked, eyes wide.
“Yeah, why?” Skylar asked, biting into another piece of cinnamon roll.
“He’s never let any of us meet her before,” Kade answered, just as shocked as Lila. “We’ve told him to invite her up here, we’ve all offered to come down with him to help, but he’s never taken any of us up on it.”
“Why not?” she asked, confusion written on her face.
“He wouldn’t say,” Kade started as she sat down at the table with Skylar and Mandy. “But we think it’s because he doesn’t want the military and Logan Creek parts of his life crossing.”
“Hmm, I mean, I guess I could understand that,” Skylar added, looking down at her plate. The weight of Kade’s words hung in the air. Dyllan had never introduced them to Deanna or let them help. She knew it’d only been a few months since Jax had passed, but the thought that he’d never mixed the two groups before made Skylar sad.
“Even still,” Mandy said, bringing Skylar out of her own thoughts. “I doubt now that you two are married he’d want to just up and leave.”
“He’s been thinking about this for so long, and now that his term is almost up for being mayor, I think he’s serious,” Skylar added, pushing her plate of sweets away.
“But he’s got you now,” Mandy added. “You even told us he said he loves you. That has to count for something.”
“You’d think, but ever since Lindsay offered me that job, it’s like it flipped a switch. He started to shut me out, acting like I’d accepted the job on the spot.” Skylar dropped her head in her hands.
“Guys are weird. They can’t process things properly,” Lila added. “Once they get something in their heads it’s impossible to change their minds.”
