Page 41 of Viktor

“Okay, I’m out. I have to get things in order with the clubs and then head out to New York. Love ya,brat.”

“Love you too.”

A lot of guys might have a problem saying those words to each other, but none of the Kincaid men did. Probably thanks to their mother, but it was something that kept them grounded in family.

And right now, they needed family more than anything.

The next few days flew by, something for which Sara was grateful. Her next book signing was coming up, and she kept herself busy getting ready for that instead of focusing on Viktor and the barn.

Sweet baby Jesus, the barn and the things he’d said to her. She was still reeling from all those revelations.

He didn’t want to be her rebound guy, but her forever guy.

She was a romance writer, and she wrote about this kind of stuff happening in the pages of a book all the time, but for it to be a reality? Nope, nope, nope. You didn’t meet someone in a week and decide they were your forever love. Real life didn’t happen like that.

Her phone interrupted her thoughts, and she picked it up off the desk. Roger had called her several times, which she’d ignored. Listening to his voicemails proved disastrous after the first one. He’d been hurling accusations at her along the same lines as the ones his mother tossed out. Her lawyer could go through the voicemails.

Dimitri’s name flashed at her, and she debated answering it. He knew her well, and he’d know how flustered she was right now, but she had a couple questions. Things he may be able to shed some light on.

“Hey, baby doll, what’s going on?”

“Didn’t think you were gonna answer there for a minute,” Dimitri said around a yawn. Did he just wake up? It was after ten in the morning.

“Sorry. I’m trying to get everything organized for this weekend. There’s so much to do.”

“Gah, don’t talk about it!” She could almost see the grimace on his face. “I’m not ready.”

“I guarantee Becca is, though.”

“Hell, yeah. I don’t know what I’d do without that woman. She’s more organized than I can ever hope to be.”

“How’s she doing?”

“Better than she was. She hated LA, though. It’s why I decided to move us to New York to be closer to my family. We’re in Chicago now, trying to get her apartment packed up. Woman lives in the middle of gang territory. One of her fucking neighbors isina gang. Fucker has a hard-on for her.”

Sara rolled her eyes. “I seriously doubt that. You’re just seeing things through the green-eyed monster.”

“Fucker glares at me like he wants to shoot me, chop me up into tiny pieces, and then scatter said pieces all over the city. And he watches her ass. Right fucking in front of me. Carlos better keep his fucking eyes off my woman.”

“You shifted from ‘best friend’ to ‘my woman’ almost overnight.”

He laughed, but it wasn’t funny. It was a harsh sound. “I should have seen it a lot sooner, but I’m an ass. If I had taken five minutes to really look, everything I knew would have slapped me in the face.”

“What do you mean?”

“My brothers knew I loved her before I did. Hell, I should have known it when I jumped on a plane to search her out when she quit and wouldn’t answer my calls.”

“Wait, what?”

“This was before I knew about her anxiety around crowds. I told her she was coming with me or I would fire her, and she fucking quit. It felt like my entire world bottomed out when I couldn’t get her to pick up the damn phone. I panicked and flew to Chicago to make her talk to me. Then she answered the door with that just fucked look in nothing more than a nightshirt and panties…” He trailed off, and she laughed. His mind went straight to the gutter.

“So, her refusal to pick up the phone made you realize how much she meant to you?”

“Fuck, no. I kept telling myself she was the BFF and off limits, but, damn, my woman has boobs you can’t ignore.”

Sara laughed. Leave it to Dimitri to notice Becca’s boobs first. His eyes had zeroed in on her chest the first time she met him too. It was simply who he was. He did it without even thinking about it.

“It was my dad who put it into perspective for me.”

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