The bikes come to a stop behind me rather than passing, as so many other cars have already. This road is busy, and I’m lucky that the flat is on the passenger side rather than the driver’s. I’d be hit and splattered all over the road if it were. I barely got my car over the white line.
The bikes all shut off, all four of them.
There’s no missing the bikers getting off their bikes. The first to approach, I knew. I’d seen him twice now already. Heat.
“What are you doing here?” I blurt out the question, not thinking better of it. He still had his shades on, and the sun was starting to set.
“Saw you when we passed by, turned around, figured I’d find out what was going on,” he says, looking past me to the flat.
“Other than having my ice cream melting away and needing to change a tire, nothing’s going on.” I try my best not to sound stressed out, but I was. My stress levels were through the roof right now, and I didn’t know how to bring them down.
“Right.” Heat grunts and whistles to the men approaching at a much slower pace. “Fire, this is McKenna, she’s the one renting Evelin’s place right now.”
“McKenna.”
Holy shit. This guy was hot. All of them are hot. Hotter than I’ve ever seen a man be. Damn. Well, not as hot as Heat is. He’s perfection. A man made of Gods.
I need to get my head examined. This is something I shouldn’t be thinking about. Not when things are as bad as they are for me.
While I’d been in my car driving, I’d gotten a text from a number I didn’t know. One that freaked me out and added to my stress. The text stated the person knew where I was and that I couldn’t hide from them.
Totally creeped me out.
“Um, nice to meet you, Fire. The house is nice. Definitely middle-of-nowhere cozy.” I ramble, making the men around me chuckle.
“I’ll tell my ol’ lady you said so,” Fire quips with a grin.
“You got a spare for this?” one of the others that I hadn’t been introduced to asks.
“Yeah, I was about to dig it out,” I answer sheepishly.
“We’ll get this taken care of and get you on the road,” Heat mutters.
“It takes four of you to take care of a tire change?” Now, why the hell did I just blurt that out?
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
I’m a complete idiot.
“Sorry, I shouldn’t have asked that. Of course it doesn’t. Blame it on the lack of sleep brain of mine.”
Now I’m more than an idiot. I need to learn to keep my mouth shut. I can’t seem to stop making a fool of myself in front of this man. I’ve never been like this with anyone, and here I am doing it all the same.
My face is tinged with pink. I can feel my embarrassment burning my cheeks. Thankfully, with the sun starting to set, I can pretend Heat and the others can’t see it.
“Trouble,” Heat grunts and shakes his head. A grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.
“What?” I blink, not understanding him.
“Nothing,” he says and turns his attention to his brothers. One of them was working on getting my tire off. The other is pulling the spare out. Fire was standing with Heat, watching the traffic. Heat’s gaze comes back to me. “We’ll have this taken care of and you back on the road soon.”
“I appreciate it.” Thankfully, I didn’t think I sounded swoony. Who knows, I might have.
“Give me your cell,” Heat demands, holding his hand out.
“Why?”
“So I can get your number and tell you where to take your car tomorrow to get the tire fixed. Can’t ride around for long on a spare.”
