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“Anyway...” He turned back toward Chloe. “I’ve been periodically driving past Freston’s house since he bonded out yesterday, and his car wasn’t in his driveway just now, so I was just making sure he wasn’t anywhere near here.”
“What the hell?” I breathed, darting a glance around the neighborhood. “He’s free?” Then, I paused and whirled toward Chloe, realizing… “Son of a bitch. You already knew.”
She’d known when we’d come outside. She’d been looking for him. Fuck, she’d knownbeforethen, making sure to leave when I did, already planning to go to her brother’s where she wouldn’t be alone while I was at work.
“Son of a bitch!” I repeated, just gaping while I clutched my own hair.
“What? You didn’t know?” Logan asked, glancing at me in surprise. “I assumed that was why you were here.”
“No. That’s not why I’m here,” I snapped irritably, staring at Chloe the whole time I spoke to Logan.
She just stared back, growing paler and paler.
“Sothisis why he called you yesterday,” I realized. “To let you know the bastard was out of jail. God almighty, Chloe, why didn’t you say something? Were you worried I was going to go after him?”
Her bottom lip trembled as she shook her head slightly but otherwise she remained mute. When she glanced toward the cop, letting me know she didn’t want to talk in front of him, I sent him a hard look.
“Yeah, thanks for stopping by,Logan,” I snapped bitterly. “But you can go now.”
“Luke, really...” Chloe sighed. “Don’t be rude.”
“Rude?” I exploded. “I just found out you’ve been hiding this from me for a full day. Sorry, but I’m fresh out of politeness. And I didn’t want to be polite to him anyway.”
“Hey, pal.” Logan gripped my arm like a cop taking control of a situation that was beginning to escalate toward chaos. “Why don’t you just take a step back and relax.”
I sliced him with a hard glare, and lifted one eyebrow, letting him know he better take his hand off me, and soon. “Are you serious?” I asked before turning to Chloe, where my eyebrows lifted, asking her why his hand was on me. “Is he fucking serious?”
“Logan, it’s fine,” she assured the other man, stepping forward to physically remove his hand from me. “Luke is fine. I’m completely safe with him.”
“You sure?” Logan asked, glancing skeptically toward me, which only made me frown more menacingly.
Chloe stepped close to me and set a calming hand on my arm. “I promise.”
Grasping her fingers, I curled her protectively closer against my side, my arm secure around her, and I told the other man, “Buddy, I’d cut off my own nuts before hurting this woman. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m getting her out of the open and taking her somewhere safe.”
I guess I finally appeased his worries because he nodded and took a step back. “Fair enough,” he murmured, and glanced toward Chloe, nodding at her in farewell. “See you around.” Then, he turned away and walked off.
I hissed after him and then growled, “I think I hate that guy.” Gripping Chloe’s hand tighter, I pulled her away from her car completely and steered her toward my truck instead.
“Oh, you do not,” Chloe told me. “Logan’s a good man.”
“Exactly,” I muttered irritably. “Out of all the men you’ve ever agreed to go out with, me included, he’s probably the least douchey of them all. So I really,reallycannot like him right now.”
Chloe bumped her shoulder into mine, and when I scowled at her, she grinned happily. “I kind of like seeing you get jealous over me.”
I snorted and opened the passenger side of the truck for her. “Get in.”
She finally glanced over at her car, then turned back to me. “I thought you were going to work.”
“Fuck work,” I muttered, picking her up by the waist and physically lifting her into the truck seat. “We’re having a family powwow because I have a feeling you haven’t toldanyoneabout this yet, otherwise we would’ve been inundated with worried people yesterday.”
I shut the door in her face before she could answer, and then I stormed around to the driver’s side.
It wasn’t until I was behind the wheel, my fingers wrapped tightly around it, and had the engine started, that I finally had my anger under enough control to glance over and say, “Now,would you like to tell me why you didn’t say a fucking thing about this yesterday?”
Chloe cringed and sent me an apologetic look before admitting, “I didn’t think I’d get to have sex with you if I told you yesterday.”
I blinked at her in astonishment before shaking my head and crying, “What?”
