Page 30 of My Cowboy Bodyguard

Then I smell him before I see him. The man with the limp. He enters the room. “You’re looking for me, boss?”

Gio inspects his watch, not looking at the guy. “Enzo, you visited Amanda’s apartment?”

The man swallows hard, his gaze darting around the room.

“You knew we found the thief and the informant,” the older man scolds. “And you have the balls to do that?”

“He doesn’t have enough brains to fill an ice cream scoop,” one of the other men at the table says.

Enzo clenches his fists. “She was always teasing me wearing those tight, short skirts, ya know? Brushing me off like she was too good for me. Women shouldn’t act like that. I was going to fuck her to teach her not to?—”

I’m on him before he gets another word out, pounding the fuck out of his sneering face. That he even thought of laying his hands on her is how he wrote the first line in his obituary.

My fists are a bloody mess before I’m pulled away from the sniveling excuse of a man.

At first, I thought it was Rio but it’s two of the older men.

One of them pats my shoulder. “Settle down, son. Bloodstains discolor the wood floors.”

Rio moves between me and a side door. He leans on it as it tries to open and forces it closed with his weight. “This is a private party,” he says to whoever is on the other side.

The man with the cane looks at Rio and chuckles, then pulls himself up from the chair and moves to where Enzo writhes and clutches his bloodied nose. “You made my son look bad and your actions brought outsiders to my door.”

He shakes his head, then leaves the room. The older men follow him, and immediately after they exit, two younger men walk into the room. They drag Enzo to his feet.

Gio straightens his tie and looks at me. “His employment will be terminated. If Amanda needs compensation?—”

“I’m the only thing she needs,” I say.

“He turns away.

After Rio and I walk out, Fury says, “We riding?”

I nod.

“Roll out,” Fury commands.

The crew rev their bikes in unison, making someone at a bakery across the street peek through the blinds. One by one, they pull onto the road and roar toward the county line.

My knuckles throb like a bitch and I think that moron flailing about kicked me in the thigh.

Hours later, I drop Rio off at his place and then I head to Amanda. For the first time since she told me about the apartment break in, my shoulders lose the tension. My woman is safe now.

All is well with my world.

She’s sitting on the front porch surrounded by all my brothers. Fury’s men are lounging in the yard.

When she sees my truck, she gets up and I swear I can feel the heat from her glare through the windshield.

She nudges Flint aside and marches toward me.

Almostall is well with my world.

Chapter 10

Amanda

He knew. He promised. He took off for Dallas anyway. Then he surrounded me with men who wouldn’t even let me pee without someone hovering nearby.

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