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She bit her lip. “I’m fine. I just needed some air.”
“Did this asshole hurt you?” His eyes shot back to Hunter.
“Hey,” Hunter took a step forward but Isobel cut him off.
“I said I’m fine.” She strode toward Reece without a backward glance at Hunter. “Are you guys ready to go?”
What the actual fuck? Hunter’s jaw tensed.
“Isobel.” It was a command to stop as much as a demand for her attention. Her back stiffened but she didn’t turn around.
“Let’s go, Reece.”
“Isobel.” Hunter took another step toward her but Reece stepped in his way.
“You’re gonna want to back up, pal.”
Hunter clenched his jaw and he all but growled at the other man. He could do nothing but stand and watch as behind Reece, Isobel hurried to the back door of the bar, opened it, and disappeared inside.
“Fuck,” Hunter shouted, turning and slamming an open palm on the brick wall.
“You better not have hurt her. If you hurt so much as a hair on her head, I swear we’ll make you regret the day you were born.”
Hunter swung back around toward the other man. He’d had dinner with Xavier’s men a few times out at the ranch. All he remembered about Reece was that he’d seemed like a good-natured guy. He gave zero fucks about the fact now. He wasn’t going to put up with anyone insinuating that he was the kind of guy to hurt women.
The fact that Isobel had left him just as coldly as Janine did after sex might have him feeling dangerous but it was nothing he’d ever take out on a woman.
Reece, however. He was fair fucking game.
“You’re going to want to walk away now.” Hunter’s voice was low. “Without another word.”
Reece kept glaring back. “Isobel’s the sister Jeremiah and I never had. And nothing in the world’s more important to us than family. You keep that in mind.”
With that he turned and headed back inside the bar.
As soon as the door slammed behind him, Hunter yanked his phone out of his pocket. A few taps later, he had the phone against his ear.
He felt punched in the guts all over again when he heard her voice. “This is Janine. I’m not around right now…”
Chapter Thirteen
ISOBEL
Isobel called in sick to work the next day.
Cowardly? Yes. But could she face Hunter after what happened last night? That would be a big fat no.
Besides, it was a Saturday and ‘work’ only meant being on call for emergencies so it wasn’t like there were normal clinic hours she was shirking. She just couldn’t handle being closed up in that truck cab with Hunter for hours on end today. Tomorrow was her day off and by Monday she’d have her shit together enough to deal with him again.
God, why had she given in to Hunter last night when he’d kissed her? She still didn’t understand what the hell she’d been doing.
She hated him.
He was a jerk.
But the sex was so hot.
She’d heard about hate sex but had certainly never experienced it before. And there was no changing it now. So, yes, they’d had amazing, earth-shattering sex. The kind of sex that changed your entire view on life. Just like that first night.
