Rose and I barely got inside the damn clubhouse before he started chewing my head off.
“Not now,” I said as I stepped in front of Rose.
“We can’t have anyone else in this crossfire right now,” Goose said as he approached my side. “We’ve got enough people to protect as it is.”
I shrugged. “Then, you’ll simply have to add someone else to the list. Don’t know what to tell you.”
Fangs glared at me. “It’s only family right now. We’re all family. Is she family to you?”
“Yes,” Rose said as she stepped up to my side, “Caleb and I have always been family.”
Bender wrinkled his nose. “Caleb? Seriously?”
Viper chuckled. “Is this who I think it is?”
I looked over at my best friend. “Yes, and then some.”
Viper’s brow twitched. “And then some?”
I decided right then and there that if they were going to protect Rose, then they had to understand the extent of our relationship. If I wanted them to step up on her behalf, then we couldn’t keep our worlds separate like I figured we could.
“Everyone, this is Rose. She was my best friend in high school, and now? She’s my fiancée.”
“As of a couple days ago, anyway,” Rose said quickly.
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“You have a fucking what!?”
As I gripped Caleb’s hand, I leaned into his side as the men who had coldly greeted us coming through the door lost their god-forsaken minds.
“How the fuck do you have a fiancée!?”
Caleb shook his head. “Fangs, now isn’t the—”
“Are you fucking kidding me? You, too, Reaper? What the hell!?”
Caleb scoffed. “That’s rich, coming from you, Goose.”
“We didn’t even know you were dating!”
“Is this some kind of ruse?”
“Are you fucking with us right now?”
A guy got into his face and, without thinking, I quickly stepped in front of him.
“You better back up right the fuck now,” I glowered.
That silenced the growing chaos coming from the men before us, but the guy I had interrupted glared down at me with a look that could have ignited and extinguished a thousand suns all at once.
“Explain,” the man demanded. “Now.”
“Well, Fangs, when you back up, I will,” Caleb said.
I wrinkled my nose. “What kind of name is Fangs, anyway? You got sharp teeth or something?”
