“What?”
“That as long as I’m there, you’ll treat me like one of your own.”
“But what if we don’t treat our own women well?”
“Then he wouldn’t have told me you were okay.”
Bishop lifted his brow and stared at her, waiting for more.
She popped the last bite of the burger into her mouth and chewed.He almost smiled at how carefree she looked.As if she hadn’t been chased, albeit stealthily, through a street festival a few hours before.As if she hadn’t been stalked for the last several weeks.As if her world hadn’t just been turned on its nose.
She picked up one of the sweet-potato fries off her plate and pointed it at him.
“Look.I know Raven’s not perfect, no one is.But I also know that all I have to do is call him and tell him I need help and he’ll have someone he trusts here to pick me up.It might take a few hours, but if it’s an emergency, he’ll find someone who can get to me fast, even if he has to make a creative call to the boys in blue.”
Bishop didn’t bother trying to keep the surprise off his face.
“He would send in the law?”
She shrugged.“If that was the only way to get to me quick, you bet your ass.He might not be on best terms with the locals, and he actively avoids the feds, but then, who doesn’t?But if it meant he’d get to me in minutes or an hour, rather than many hours or even days, you bet your ass he’d call them.”
Bishop leaned back and took her in.She picked up her drink and took a sip, then ate a couple more fries.He wasn’t going to be able to intimidate her into talking.That was yet another point in her favor.Those points were adding up fast.Now he was impatient to get her on the back of his bike again.He liked feeling her tits pressed against his back.
“Son of a bitch,” he muttered under his breath as he spotted who’d just walked into the store.It was the fuckwad that had been following Winter.Hammer still had her phone, or at least Bishop thought he did, so how had he tracked her here?
“What?”
“Did Hammer or Bulldog give you your phone back?”
Winter looked at him with wide eyes as she shook her head.“No.They still have it.”
“Do you know what part of town that fucker lives in?”
She frowned and blinked a couple of times.“Give me a second.He never said outright, but there were a few comments.I got the impression he lived over on the northwest side, somewhere like Sun City or Surprise, but I can’t be sure.It was just the impression I got.”She kept her attention on him, as if she didn’t want to see the fuckwad, or possibly, she didn’t want him to see her.
“Any reason you can think of for him to be on this side of town?”
She shook her head, then pushed the plate away.Apparently, Kevin’s appearance had killed her appetite.Not that he blamed her.He hated that and added it to the list of reasons he would make the fuckwad pay.Painfully.
