“Savannah slept in the guest bedroom.”
Aidan’s announcement had my husband frowning, but I just nodded. “She said as much.”
My brother-in-law winced. “She told you guys?”
“They share every-fucking-thing,” Brennan mumbled. “I told you.”
Aidan cringed. “She still mad?”
“Hurt, more like.”
“Damn.” He dragged a hand through his hair then grimaced when he tracked dirt alongside it. “I don’t understand why she can’t leave some shit alone.”
“You knew what she was like from the beginning.”
“Some bull is easier to discuss than others.”
“She said something about animal fighting?”
“Fuck’s sake!”
“They share everything.”Brennan took a bite of a brownie when I frowned at him.
“You hurt her, Aidan.”
“I didn’t mean to.”
I arched a brow. “That doesn’t make it better.”
His gaze dropped to the table. “Some shit, I don’t want to share with her. Some shit, I want to spare her from. This fucking city is riddled with corruption and horrible, horrible crap. Is it too much to want to come home and just be with her? Not have her pepper me with goddamn questions about things that’ll screw with her head?”
“Mostly, he was pissed she knew something he didn’t,” Brennan taunted.
“Fuck you!”
“Have you talked to her about this?” I interrupted with a glare at the pair of them.
“No.”
“Then how is she supposed to know how you feel?”
He harrumphed.
“You might think you’re protecting her. You might even think that you just want her to be your safe space, Aidan. But if you don’t tell her, she can never get with the program.” While he blinked at me, I continued, “And what happened between you two?”
“We couldn’t pinpoint a location where Savannah said the illegal fights are happening,” Brennan drawled.
“So there is a place in the tristate area holding those kinds of… events?”
“Hmm.”
I rolled my eyes at the nonanswer. “You were trying to shut them down?”
“Of course. That shit’s fucking obscene. I’ll watch two men fight to the death because theychoseto be so goddamn dumb. Two dogs didn’t have a choice,” Aidan snapped. “Savannah told me this was happening. My wife. And she cried, Camille. She was in tears. Her massive heart was breaking and I couldn’t fucking?—”
When he broke off and sucked in a sharp breath, I patted his shoulder. “Aidan?”
“What?”
