Page 100 of Outlaw

I didn’t respond as I took a sip from the cup.

She stood there, watching me as she chewed on her bottom lip. After a minute or so, she sighed. “Are you not going to ask where Linc went?”

I shook my head. Absolutely not.

The exasperated look on her face would be funny if I wasn’t a bitter, broken soul.

“Okay, fine. Don’t ask. I’m telling you anyway. They are both in the hospital rooms in the basement with Doc Burl.”

I set my cup down slowly. There were many questions that statement brought up.

“There are hospital rooms in the basement?” I asked.

She rolled her eyes. “Yes. Seriously, is that your first question?”

No. “Yeah, because that’s intense.”

Jayda tilted her head. “Look, I know you know who they are. When things happen, most of the time, they don’t want to go to a hospital. It involves too many questions. Police would be called, et cetera. They even have an operating room down there. Doc Burl works for them privately.”

Well, now that she’d explained it, that made sense.

She glanced over at Stevie, who was on the floor, playing with Maui, then back at me. “They got into a fight in here last night,” she whispered. “Linc lost it and attacked Luther. The women they had with them were screaming like banshees, and I came running in here to find them beating the hell out of each other. I had to mop the floor to get the blood up before I went to bed.”

Was she joking?

“What?” I whispered, my eyes bugging out of my head.

She smirked. “I dumped the pitcher of cold water over themwhile on the phone, calling Bane. They’d stopped by the time he arrived with Locke and Oz, but they were still seething and glaring at each other. They each have a cracked rib, which is what probably kept them from going at it again.”

I shook my head. “What in the world happened?”

They had cracked ribs? Jesus.

She waggled her eyebrows. “You.”

Me? I frowned. “What?”

She bit back a laugh and leaned closer. “All I know or got from their angry hissing and snarling was that Luther threatened to take care of you sexually if Linc didn’t stop leading you on and using you.”

That stung—no, it was more along the lines of a knife right in the chest.

“Seems you saw Luther naked and Linc getting a blow job. It escalated from there.”

I dropped my head into my hands and rubbed my temples. I shouldn’t have come out of my room. This was worse than I’d imagined. Luther had gotten into a fight because I was pathetic. That was basically what she was telling me.

I looked up. “Why did Linc lose it?”

She gave me an amused look. “Please tell me you’re joking.”

“No,” I said slowly, trying to figure out what I had missed in this entire thing.

Placing her hands on the counter, she leveled her gaze on me. “Because he is possessive of you. He gets jealous. Doesn’t like the other men to mention that you’re hot.”

Not for the reasons she was clearly thinking.

I sighed heavily. “That all has to do with Stevie. Not me.”

Jayda pursed her lips. “I don’t think so.”

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