He knows a little about what went down with Sarah, but he doesn’t know everything. Or maybe he does. We haven’t talked about it. But he does know that she affects me ‘cause I gave everyone strict instructions that we use Bodie as our vet, come hell or high water.
“Just get me a beer,” I grunt.
“Cade?”
“What?” My jaw is tight. I can’t stop looking at her.
She doesn’t belong here, smiling at my friends like she has a right. She forfeited that years ago.
“I’m gonna get a beer, and you’re not goin’ to start no trouble, are you?” Dodge waits until I look at him, and he holds my gaze.
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“That means that I was a fool to have mentioned to you that Dr. K’s here.”
My nostrils flare. “When the fuck did she become Dr. K to you?”
He sucks in a breath and lets it out in frustration. “You gotta get a grip, alright?”
“What the fuck ever.” I wave at him and walk…to her table.
“Cade,” he calls out.
I ignore him.
“Evenin’,” I drawl as I come up to the round bar table. The women are seated on the barstools while their men stand by them, their drinks on the table.
Hunt is next to Joy, and Kaz is standing between Bree and Sarah.
I slide in next to Hunt, across from Sarah.
He greets me with a slap on the back while Aria nods. Joy narrows her eyes and gives me a smile that’s tight enough to hold a fence post upright.
“Cade.” Kaz shoots me a warning look that clearly says,Behave.
Christ! These are my friends, and they’re all looking at me like I’m the enemy. She did this. Turned my people against me.
Fuck her. They’ll see who she is and drop her, like I did, like we all did.
“Here.” Dodge inserts himself next to me, thumping a longneck in front of me.
She looks uncomfortable as hell. Good! She has no business getting all cozy with my people. First Bodie and now these good men and women? They don’t know her like I do.
“Dr. K, how’s it goin’?” my foreman asks her as he bumps his shoulder against mine—another friend who’s telling me tobehave.
“Dodge.” Her voice is tentative, soft, hesitant.
“You know each other?” I want to break every bone in Dodge’s face for how she’s looking at him, all soft and tender.
“We met last week at the Horseshoe,” Dodge explains. His tone is also wary, also tacitly telling me to rein it the fuck in.
“The Horseshoe?” I sneer. “I thought Eunice wasn’t gonna feed you.”
The air gets tight.
“Cade.” This comes from Mav, who’s got a soft spotfor Sarah because she helped out Aria when no one else would, ‘cause she couldn’t afford a vet and needed one badly.
That was Sarah for you, right? She’d play the good girl and get into your life, and then she’d….
