Sabrina
Stoney didn’t return for close to three hours and I was beyond panicked. I heard the roar of motorcycles and ran outside to meet him.
“Babe, why are you out here without a jacket?” he growled, removing his helmet and jogging up onto the porch. He wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close. “Hey, I got you.”
I burst into tears and gripped his jacket. “What did they want?”
“Doesn’t matter. You’re safe now.”
I leaned back and met his eyes. “Which means, what?”
“Not important.”
“Kind of important when bad men on bikes are chasing me down,” I growled.
“Come on, let’s get you inside.”
“I have to go to work, Noah.”
He raised an eyebrow. “Why do you only call me Noah when you’re irritated with me or scared?”
“I don’t know. I just do. Why do you always call me Breezy? Quit changing the subject.”
“I call you Breezy when you need to chill the fuck out. You’re also fuckin’ easy breezy beautiful when you’re not freakin’ the fuck out.”
“I only freak the fuck out when I have a reason to freak the fuck out,” I snapped.
He rolled his eyes. “You need to let your office know you’re not coming in today.”
“I already let them know I’d be late, but I can’t just keep calling out of work.”
“Sabrina, you own the company, you actually can,” he countered. He wrapped an arm around me and started toward the cabin. “Inside.”
“My laptop’s in my car. If I’m not able to go into the office, I’ll at least need to get some work done.”
“I’ll get it. You need to get your ass inside.”
“Wow,” I snapped. “You don’t get to talk to me like that.”
I turned on my heel and stomped into the foyer.
“Hey,” Aero said. “You okay?”
“Do you have a place I can hide a body?”
Aero smirked just as a heavy jacket settled over my shoulders and Stoney handed me my laptop bag. Even though I was mad at him, his jacket was warm, and I was freezing, so I snuggled into it.
“Come into the great room, Breezy,” Stoney said. “I’ll get you a cup of coffee.”
I stepped away from his touch and heard him sigh as I walked into the great room, rummaging through my purse for my phone. I called Ellie and let her know I’d be out the rest of the day, but I had my computer with me in case she needed me, then pulled my laptop out and powered it up.
Stoney walked back into the room setting a cup of coffee on the table beside me, then lifting the laptop off my lap and leaning down, nose-to-nose with me. “I’m sorry I growled at you, Sabrina. Chalk it up to being scared to death that someone might hurt you.”
“I understand, but that doesn’t give you license to speak to me that way.”
