Wyatt
ONE WEEK LATER, I walked out of my office and found yet another asshole biker leaning against his bike which happened to be parked so I couldn’t back out. This time, however, I realized it was Aero, and since he both enraged and scared the hell out of me, I pulled my phone out and waved it at him, freezing in place. “I have 9-1-1 ready to call. Please drive away and leave me alone.”
He shook his head and walked toward me.
“Stop!” I ordered.
“Babe, I’m not gonna hurt you.”
“Well, past behavior would belie that statement.”
“What the hell does belie mean?” he asked.
“Contradict, disprove, deny—”
“Do you study the dictionary in your spare time?” he asked.
“Technically, it would be a thesaurus.”
He grinned and I suddenly realized he was standing in front of me. I stepped back.
“Jesus, sweetheart, I totally freaked you, huh?”
I squared my shoulders in an effort to feel braver. “Please leave me alone.”
“Look, I’m sorry I scared you,” he said. “I thought you were fuckin’ with my club and my prez, and I jumped to conclusions.”
“What do you want, Aero?”
“That’s it,” he said. “When I found out you didn’t know what Sonja was up to, I knew I needed to apologize. Believe it or not, I’m not in the habit of scaring women.”
Okay, I wasn’t expecting that.
I narrowed my eyes. “Did Sundance send you in some misguided effort to get me back?”
His eyes widened and I realized I’d just given Aero information he didn’t already know.
Shit.
“He doesn’t know I’m here and now that I know what I think I know that I’m probably not supposed to know, if he knew I was here, I’d be deeper in the shit than you could know.” He dragged a hand over his face. “But that explains a lot.”
“Like what?” I asked, only understanding about twenty percent of what he’d said.
“Nothin’.” He shook his head. “Look, don’t hold my actions against him, yeah?”
I guess that was fair. Sundance had enough of his own crap he had to own.
I sighed. “Okay.”
“Just so you know, I would never hurt a woman. It’s just that I thought you were in league with Sonja, and Sonja’s not, well, a woman, she’s more like a soul-sucking devil she beast… I don’t know. Fuck. She’s evil reincarnate.”
Since words were obviously not his forte, I decided to let him off the hook. “Okay, Aero, I hear you.”
“Thanks. I’m gonna head out now. Just wanted you to know I was sorry.”
“I appreciate that.”
“You gonna hug it out with me?” he asked, his gorgeous face breaking out in a mischievous grin.
