AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Not a clue, but I’m going to tan Jewls’ ass.”
We file out, following Robbie to the conference room, which luckily isn’t in the main area. When Rowan spots me, her blistering glare stops me in my tracks.
The women line up shoulder to shoulder, all of them hot.
Not in the gorgeous, sexy way I’m used to.
More of the ‘if looks could disintegrate human flesh, we’d be a pile of ashes’.”
“You!” Rowan stabs her finger in my direction.
“You!” Harley and Jewls repeat the action to their husbands.
“Talon, bring your ass over here and sit down.” Rowan spins a chair. “And you, Ford Whitman, have two seconds before I lose my ever-loving mind. How could you hide the fact Talon got shot?”
“Same!” Jewls and Harley parrot again.
Talon saunters over to the chair with a low whistle.
“Ouch, Hollywood has a temper.” Finn recoils with a fake shiver.
“Shut it, Hero, or you’re next,” Rowan snipes.
He throws his hands up in surrender.
“Ladies, I’m fine. It was a flesh wound.”
Three sets of eyes slice to Talon, who slinks into the chair.
“Fine? Getting shot is not fine! Just like getting stabbed is not fine!” Rowan’s on the verge of hysterics, and the room takes on a lethal vibe.
“Baby, come here.” I step forward and she retreats.
“Nope, you neglected to share that your best friend was shot! With a gun.”
Not smart to point out that all GSWs are from guns. So, I try another approach.
“We were out of town for four days, and as you can see, he’s good.”
If possible, her eyes bead, blazing even hotter.
“They were off sexing it up. What’s your excuse?” Jewls yells at Major.
“You’re thirty-four weeks pregnant and we were moving.”
“You let him lift heavy objects! What kind of friend does that?”
“He’s good,” Major repeats my words.
“Achilles Kingston, you better have something better to say.” Harley props her hands on her hips, tapping her toe.
Ace doesn’t reply, holding her stare. The anger dies out of her eyes and they pool with tears.
“That’s not fair. I can handle it.”
“Not putting you through that again,” he replies gently.
My mind goes back to the day she stormed into the hospital in South America, full of flare and sass. The instant she saw him in the bed, she lost it.
