He was Chaos so the badass was inherent.
It just had never been apparent.
Right then, the way he held my gaze steady, looking over hisleather-clad shoulder, the Chaos patch on the back of his cut, his face set,making a point, the badass was out.
And damn it…
I liked it.
“I would aim to maim,” I shared shakily, not feeling veryhappy about this new way Snap Kavanaugh could affect me.
“Do you have even a little clue how good a marksman yougottabe to aim to maim and do that shit successfully in anuncertain or tense situation?”he asked.
“Marksperson,” I muttered.
He turned slowly to me, the badass still brimming from him,vibrating against me, and my determination not to get involved with anotherbiker ever (and definitely imminently) took a hit.
God, why did my dad have to be so awesome?
Why couldn’t I be attracted to geeks, metrosexuals, orhipsters?
“Rosalie, this shit is serious,” he stated, all steely.
Snapper, easy-to-be-with was great.
Snapper being steely in a gun shop wasfantastic.
Time to escape.
“I think I need to go home,” I mumbled.
“We’regoin’ for coffee,” Snapdeclared.
“We’re not going for coffee,” I returned.
“You in a gun shoplookin’ to getarmed, time I give you space to regroup is done.We need to talk,” he told me.
“We don’t have anything to talk about anymore.”
Steely gone, gentle and sweet in its place, Snap said,“Rosie, there will never be a time when you and me don’t have shit to talkabout.”
Whoa, that was crazy-sweet.
I decided to get mad instead of scared.
Or excited.
“I just got beat to hell by my boyfriend and his brothers,”I reminded him.
“You got beat to hellsix days agoby an asshole Ialways knew was an asshole but now you know is an asshole, though you alreadyknew it, you just weren’t admitting it.And in those six days you’ve alsofigured out why you were with him but you still had all the time in the worldto have a lotta phone conversations with me.”
Direct hit.
Damn.
“Are wegonnado this in front ofZip?”I asked.
“Just to say, if I got a choice, I’d rather you not do thisin front of me,” Zip put in.
