“When I just spoke to you telling you to stay home and now you show up out of the blue, yes.”
“I came to save you from a mistake.”His eyes drifted over Rob.She could tell Liam was sizing him up.
“I don’t need saving, brother.Where’s Cora?”Cora was a good mediator with her brother and could help in this situation.She looked around frantically for her, but Cora was nowhere to be seen.
“Back home,” he replied crisply, stopping a foot in front of them.People passing them on the street gave them a wide berth as if they could sense the tension.
“As you should be.Honestly, Liam, I don’t need your help.”She and Rob were in a good place in their relationship.“I’m a grown adult who can make her own decisions without her brother interfering.”
This was one of the reasons why she had moved to Vegas.Liam was trying to make up for not being there for her by now smothering her.
His eyes fell onto her.“I thought you dumped him.”
She shouldn’t be surprised he knew this was Rob.Nor would it surprise her if he had used his government access to do a background check on him or track her phone, which was how he’d known where she was.“Rob is not your concern.”
“He’s not good enough for you, June,” Liam snarled as he marched up to them.Rob held his ground and even took a step to the side to try and block June.It was sweet, but her brother would never hurt her.
“You don’t think anyone is good enough for me.The king of some country could propose to me, and you wouldn’t think he’s good enough.You’re just being an overprotective big brother.”
“Maybe, but I won’t stand by while you’re being lied to.”
“Lied to?”What was he talking about?She and Rob had talked everything out, hadn’t they?What did Liam know that she didn’t?
“Rob here isn’t who you think he is.”
June rolled her eyes.Now her brother was being melodramatic.Where was Cora when she needed her?“And who is he?”June asked, sounding exasperated.
“I don’t know what he’s told you, but he works for a secret group in the military,” Liam said in a low whisper.
Gee, that sounds familiar.Talk about calling a spade a spade.“I already know that.I can’t be angry with him for that.So how dare you,” she chastised, giving him a pointed look.
Her brother did the same thing as Rob, so how could he condemn Rob?Liam should be shaking his hand, not looking like he was ready to punch Rob.
“I’m not condemning him for what he does, but you should be angry with what he’s keeping from you.”
“Liam,” Rob said in a warning tone.
Liam turned his lethal stare onto him and raised a finger in his direction.“Stay out of this.You’re already on my shit list.”June stepped between them.Both men were angry with each other, but they both loved her.No one would swing a fist as long as she stayed between them.
“Why are you being so hostile toward him?What has he done to you?”Liam was a protective older brother, but it was as if he had a vendetta against Rob, which didn’t make sense.They didn’t even know each other.
“This is something between us.June doesn’t need to be involved,” Rob spoke up, taking a step closer to pull June away, but she refused to budge.She didn’t want to see the two men she loved most in the world come to blows over some imagined slight.
“I believe you have something to tell my sister.”Liam glowered at Rob and took a step toward him.They both seemed to have forgotten June was getting squished between them.
“Liam, what are you talking about?”
“Rob here has been looking into my background.”
June whipped around to look up at Rob, sure she had misheard her brother.“Rob, tell him that’s not true.”Rob didn’t say anything.He continued to look straight ahead at her brother, a tic working in his jaw.“You looked into my brother?”If he hadn’t, he would have said so.
“You were secretive about him, so I was curious.I thought he might be a criminal,” he explained so matter of fact, as if that gave him every excuse to violate her trust like that.
“So that gave you the right to look into his background?”Did that mean he’d looked into hers too?Not that he would find anything, but still.It felt dirty that he would do something like that.Why not just ask her?
His gaze flickered down to meet hers.“In my line of work—”
“No,” she cut him off.“You don’t get to use the secret military group as an excuse for what you did.Lots of people don’t talk about what their families do for a living.That’s not an excuse to do background checks on them.Nor does my brother have anything to do with your line of work.Did you do one on me too?”June took a step back as if preparing herself for a physical blow.She bumped into her brother’s chest.He placed reassuring hands on her shoulders, letting her know he was there for her.
