Page 23 of Bound By Redemption
But we loved each other, and that was all that mattered.
“Oh shit.” Turning my head, a fist flew. Micah’s, that is, right into blond guy’s gut. The blond guy hunched over, but it wasn’t much. The punch was pretty strong, but the blond guy just laughed, wrapped his hand around the back of Micah’s head, and pulled him into that man hug thing.
Maybe Micah liked men?
Wouldn’t that be my luck?
6
Micah
“You fucker.”Dryerson said in my ear as he pulled me to him slapping me on the back twice. Pissed wasn’t even it. Livid was more like it.
“You’re lucky you aren’t breathin’ through a fuckin’ tube for that shit. Slow the fuck down,” I told him pulling back and glaring at him, letting him know how serious I was about this. “That was my fuckin’ kid and her momma. You hit them. I end you.”
Dryerson pulled away, smiling. “Sorry, man. It’s dark, and Katie tried to fuckin’ ditch me. Me. Of all fuckin’ people. I was pissed and didn’t think. I just wanted to ring her damn neck.”
Even pissed, a chuckle escaped as we separated. “Don’t do it again.”
“Won’t, man.” Dryerson’s eyes went over to Ensley, Austyn, Bristyl and Katie. Mine followed. “Damn. That’s your woman?”
“That’s my kid and her mom,” I countered, not really knowing what Ensley and I were, but I didn’t have time to dwell on it.
“So if I go over and …”
Without a single thought, I stepped into Dryerson’s space, getting nose to nose with the man. “Stay the fuck away from her.”
Dryerson chuckled, putting his hands up and stepping back. “Just checkin’. Introduce me.” Whatever in the fuck that meant.
It wasn’t until that moment that I felt the red hot burning in my arm. Fuck, that hurt. Shouldn’t have held him like that.
We walked over to the girls, and to my surprise Remy leapt from Katie’s arms and into mine. She laid her head on my shoulder, her forehead touching my chin as her thumb went to her mouth.
“This pretty little thing is Remy,” I said to Dryerson and couldn’t hide the grin. It felt damn good to have my girl jump into my arms like that. That I was her safety in all this chaos.
“Well, hello. You look just like your momma.”
For a moment I thought he was going to say something stupid likeyou look like your daddybut thankfully he remembered our short conversation about not telling Remy quite yet.
Remy snuggled in closer to me. “Big hit with this one,” I teased him. Dryerson was a hell of a ladies man. Had a woman every chance he got. He’d love it here.
“She’ll warm up to me.” Dryerson held out his hand to Ensley. “And you must be the beautiful Ensley Tugger keeps talkin’ about.”
A small blush came to Ensley’s cheeks as she reached over and took his hand. “Tugger? Hi. You must be Dryerson?”
Dryerson looked to me. “Awe. You told her about me? Aren’t you just so sweet. And yeah. We call him Tugger.”
My eyes rolled. He was a player and always had woman eating out of the palm of his hands. Hopefully he didn’t end up getting his ass kicked from flirting too much. Men around here didn’t allow anyone to mess with their women.
“He called me and told me you were gonna follow my sister here. Don’t get all sappy.”
Her teasing tone and small smile had me taking a small step back. Please, for the love of God, tell me she wasn’t flirting with him. I really didn’t want them beat the shit out of the man, but if this shit kept up, it was going to happen.
“Oh honey. You haven’t seen anything yet,” Dryerson teased back.
“Ben…” I warned, using his first name. He knew when I pulled that shit out, I meant business.
Dryerson stepped back and shrugged. “He’s a bit territorial.”
