Page 44 of I Should Hate You-but I Don't

"I mean it." He straightened. "I can't have you rushing out to put out God damn fires. You could've gotten hurt."

"But I didn't." She caressed his chest. "You're getting worked up over nothing."

"I don't want that to happen again."

She sighed. "It probably won't. It was one time. The camper broke the rules. Phil is very strict about them."

"Where are they?"

"Who?"

"The campers." His mouth thinned. "I'd like to have a few words with them."

"They're gone. Phil sent them packing." She grabbed his hand, keeping him with her. "Everything is okay. Really."

Phil walked into the cabin and stopped, looking at both of them. She let go of Zane's hand.

"She's quite the hero, Prez." Phil lugged the empty extinguisher behind the counter. "She deserves a raise, saving the campground like that. Quick thinking. She's going to do okay here."

The praise only worried her. Zane looked as if he was going to drag her out of the cabin and force her to work in the bar's kitchen.

"I'll bring another extinguisher or two out of the supply shed." Zane left the cabin without another word to her.

She walked to the door and peered out at him, getting on his Harley and riding away. The thrum of her heart kept her in place. She'd scared him.

She'd never seen him act like that before.

Chapter Twenty

Zane

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"You have a fuckin' Harley. Catch her." Zane walked into the clubhouse with his cell plastered to his ear.

"I've had, at max, two hours of sleep in the last three days. She stops just long enough to take a nap."

"You can't break into her hotel?"

"She sleeps in her car—"Kingsley's voice broke out with the bad cell reception."If I approach, she leaves, so I use that time to shut my eyes, or there's no way I'll make it."

"Then stop her from going."

"She's running back toward Idaho. It'll be a lot easier if I let her drive than dealing with getting my bike back home. I'll stop her once she rides over the state line."

Zane stopped in the middle of the clubhouse. "Does she know you're following?"

"Yeah."

"That doesn't make any sense."

"I have a feeling, I'm the one that's making her run."

Zane exhaled harshly. "Do what you can to get back home...with Kenna."

"Yeah, I will."Kingsley yawned."Before you hang up, how's Dad?"

"He'll live."

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