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“He told Duke he needed to get to Leather and Ink because Willa was in trouble.”
“Oh. Well, I’m glad Vance came.” I fell silent for a moment. “I hope she’s going to be okay. I mean, she killed a man for crying out loud.”
“Better him than you,” Bones said, his tone dark.
I closed my eyes. “I can’t think about it. If I think about it, I’ll…”
“What’s your address?”
I gave it to him. “You want me to put it into my phone?”
“Nah. I know where you live.” He glanced at me and grinned. “Not in a stalker sort of way, I just meant I know that part of town. I got it.”
“Is Charlie going to be okay with Savage?” I asked.
“Yeah, she’ll be fine. Better than fine.”
“What’s that mean?”
“It means Savage knows how to distract a woman from her troubles.”
“Charlie has enough troubles,” I muttered.
Bones chuckled. “What about you?”
“What about me?”
“Do you need to be distracted?” He took his eyes off the road for a moment to glance at me.
“Yes, I do need a distraction,” I said, meeting his gaze.
His eyes heated.
“Tell me a joke,” I stated.
“Tell you a joke?”
“Yes. That’s all the distraction I’m interested in.”
“Not nearly as fun as getting naked and letting me distract you that way. A joke is no substitute for a few orgasms.”
“A few orgasms?” I raised my brows. “Aren’t you the optimist.”
He grinned. “I’m confident I could give you a few. It would blow all that static out of your head. Nothing like a good fuck after what you’ve been though. But if it’s a joke you want, it’s a joke I’ll give you. Lemme see. I gotta dig for one…”
After a moment, his brow unwrinkled. “Okay, I got one. A three-legged puppy walks into a saloon and says, I’m lookin’ for the dog who shot my paw.”
The laugh started small, almost like a chuckle. But for some reason, Bones’ terrible dad joke hit me at just the right spot and my chuckle became a full-on belly laugh. I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe, tears of humor streaming from my eyes.
I wasn’t sure when it happened, but the humor turned into something else, something akin to my body realizing I’d almost died, and it was processing it the only way it knew how.
My chest filled with pain. Sharp, like a knife was slicing through my lungs and heart.
His hand settled onto my thigh, but he said nothing.
It only made me cry harder.
By the time Bones was pulling into my driveway, my tears had turned into sniffles and hiccoughs. Bones parked and turned off the ignition, but we just sat there, his hand on my leg as I slowly came back to myself.
