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Oh,fuckno!
Automatically, my fists balled, my blood rushed, and my face got hot. That goddamn rookie cop. It hadn’t happened in a long time, but my vision turned red like it used to do when I looked at Devon. To see this guy out, walking around the fucking grocery store, living his life like he hadn’t tried to kill us, hit me so hard all rationality left me.
But Devon acted first. “You fucking fuck!” Devon snapped at Davis, taking a step in his direction. “How fucking dare you?”
My whole disposition changed. As much as I wanted to confront Davis, I had a different priority now. Devon. As soon as he got protective, he became my one and only focus. Protecting him from himself. Some things never changed.
“Who the fuck do you think you are?” Devon spat at him, seething like a rabid dog.
I turned my back on Davis and put a hand on Devon’s chest, stepping right in front of him to block his path to the cop. If he did something stupid and got arrested, we’d never talk our way out of that one, and Davis was slimy enough to set us up like this.
“Devon,” I said calmly. “Look at me.”
He didn’t. “You lying sack of shit! Do you know the shit we’ve been through because of you? You better get your ass outta Garron before I—”
“Devon!” I yelled at him, grabbing his chin with one hand and keeping the other on his chest. “Look at me. Only me.”
I had no idea what Davis was doing behind my back, but Devon’s blue eyes met mine before shifting back to Davis. They darted back and forth while his chest heaved, and when his glare finally settled on mine, we had a wordless conversation. With a look, I told him to smarten the fuck up. I just got out of prison, the case was still ongoing, and Davis was a part of it. Meddling in it, which included confronting Davis in a grocery store, was a criminal offence. With a glare, Devon told me he watched me almost die because of this asshole and now he wanted to kill him for it. Not gonna lie, the purely lethal look in his eyes made me do a double-take, noting how good murder looked on him.
Devon hated that Davis was allowed to be out in town. He was supposed to be under house arrest, but being a cop granted him certain advantages that people like us would never get. Life wasn’t fair, but we’d been learning that lesson since childhood.
My hand rose and fell with the force of his breathing. Our eyes stayed connected, finishing our conversation without words, and when he blinked, I knew he’d be okay. Later. That was the promise we made to each other. Davis would get his fucking due… later. We’d find a way to make sure of it, but this, in a public place, wasn’t the way.
“Fuck,” Devon muttered under his breath, the fight falling from his shoulders. “Fuck.”
Davis snorted a mocking laugh behind me, and it took everything in my power not to spin around and knock him out. Devon tensed, so I firmed up my grip on his jaw and pressed my hand to his chest. A reminder to keep his shit together.
“We’re together,” I whispered to him, reminding him of what was important. “Don’t forget that.” We’d been granted a second chance at having a life together, and this moment wasn’t going to fuck it up.
Devon’s jaw clenched again, but he nodded, looking at me instead of Davis.
“Let’s go.” I shoved him in the chest, pushing him backwards and away from the prick cop. Devon kept facing me until I shoved him a third time, and then he finally turned around to walk on his own. Julie was still standing there, looking almost scared, so I tilted my head at her to invite her to leave with us.
“Run away like a little bitch again, Sawyer,” Davis mocked as we left. “Your dad would be so proud.”
Devon whirled around, ready to charge at Davis like a bull. “Fuck you, you—”
I blocked his path and he bounced off my chest. “Get outside, you dumb fuck,” I snarled at him, giving him yet another shove. Jesus, this guy was a hothead.
I damn near wrestled him the whole way out, and he didn’t stop fighting me until the doors closed behind us. He shoved me away and threw a string of insults, directed at Davis, at me. I’d take the brunt of them, letting him vent so he didn’t murder Nate’s truck or the row of shopping carts near it.
While he spouted off, I checked in on Julie. “Did you know he was there?”
She had a guilty look on her face, and if she had anything to do with him, I’d throw her on her ass and not give a single fuck about it. “I saw him in the aisle,” she said, defending herself. “And he gave me the creeps, so I left that aisle and ran into you guys. I swear.”
It better have been a coincidence, and I guess that explained why she’d seemed awkward in the store. She probably tried to distract us from him. Or she was a bigger bitch than I ever gave her credit for and wanted to get back at us for the way we treated her. Come to think of it, I had no idea why she was even here. Wasn’t she supposed to be off at some community college or something?
“—kill him and his fucking goat!” I caught the tail end of Devon’s rant. Then he turned into a dick and spun that anger on Julie. “Were you with that fuckstick?”
Jesus, he needed to calm down. I opened the door of Nate’s truck and pushed him inside it. He fought me, so I gave him the death glare and didn’t back down.
“Fuck you, Maddox.” He huffed himself into the truck, but wouldn’t let me close the door. He sat with his legs half out, still waiting for Julie to answer.
“No, I swear. I was just picking up a few things before I saw you guys.” Yet, we’d all abandoned our shopping carts in there. “I promise.”
“We believe you,” I told her right before Devon tried to get out again. “Get in the fucking truck before I knock you out and put you in the back.”
Devon rolled his eyes and sat back down. Julie tried to hide a smile.
