It was purely a defense.
It wasn’t like I didn’t notice all the women who kept slanting their gazes his way last night. Aiming to garner his attention as he sat at that bar and gruffed and glowered at me like I was the bane of his existence.
No one could blame me for rubbing it in a little bit out there on the dance floor.
He totally deserved it for busting through my reserves.
I guess we’d both been pushed up against a wall. Neither of us left with any restraint.
My chest tightened.
Strike that.
Silas had.
He’d slammed the brakes on the direction I’d been heading before things between us had really gotten out of hand.
Meems laughed an incredulous sound. “You’re talking about the bunnies running around here?”
I shifted Kai around to my other hip, the little boy playing with my hair, taking giant pieces and hiding his face behind them like he was playing his own game of hide and seek.
“Obviously.” I shrugged, nonchalant and like the thought of it didn’t sting.
A dull blade driven right through the middle of my sternum.
Visions flashing of three or four of those women crawling all over him.
Jealousy was such an ugly emotion, and right then, it wascrawling all overme.
I finally got myself together enough to walk deeper into the kitchen.
The old lady chuckled low as she cracked an egg into the mixture. “You think whatever is going on between the two of you is no different than the nonsense that goes on over there at that clubhouse?”
“Isn’t it?” I said it like it was no big deal as I wound around Elena so I could get to the cupboard that held the coffee cups.
You know, just making myself at home.
One step closer to that decimated heart.
A total fool because my spirit leapt when Meems shifted to look at me from over her shoulder and said, “Not even close, sweet one.”
In defense, I huffed while ensuring Kai’s limbs were out of reach when I pulled out the carafe and poured a steaming cup of coffee. “And how’s it any different?”
Elena laughed like I was dense. “How is it different?”
“Yeah.”
“The fact he brought you through that door right there means it’s different.” Answering for her, Meems pointed toward the front entrance.
Kai wiggled. “Down.”
I set him onto his feet, then I took a quick sip of my coffee, wincing as the piping hot liquid hit my tongue.
“He only brought me here to keep an eye on me,” I defended.
“Oh, I bet he wants to keep an eye on you. That boy looks like he wants to eat you up every time he glances your way.” Meems hummed with a shake of her head.
My guard slipped, and I gnawed at my bottom lip as I looked at Kai who started pushing his toy motorcycle across the floorat my feet. “There is no future there, if that’s what you two are thinking.”
