Page 16 of Wolf's Son
It takes me a minute to recognize it’s one of those thermometers you run along a forehead.
“I’m gonna call the doctor on-call,” Wolf grunts and tosses the thermometer to the coffee table and looks at the woman and man. “Thanks for watchin’ him tonight. Y’all go ahead and head home. I’ll let you know how it goes.”
“We’ll stay if you need us to,” the woman says, glancing in my direction.
“I’ve got it,” Wolf tells her and digs out his phone, turning away from us.
Both the guy and the woman look in my direction. The man steps forward. I notice him wearing a vest-type thing with patches on it. I remember reading about this in one of my books.
I love reading MC romances when I have time, and I think they’re called cuts.
“I’m Kevlar, and this is my ol’ lady, Rosemary,” Kevlar greets, stretching a hand in my direction.
Taking it, I give him mine. “Nice to meet you both. I’m Jacqueline. I live right next door.”
Rosemary doesn’t say anything, but she does watch me closely. Finally, she steps forward and gives me a cautious smile. “Nice to meet you as well.”
I glance over at Wolf to see him talking on the phone. His body turned slightly in our direction, eyes on me.
I don’t know what he’s thinking, but his eyes were clearly assessing.
Kevlar and Rosemary leave before he gets off the phone, leaving me alone with the man I swore was about to kiss me outside in the driveway.
I still can’t believe I’d been brazen enough tomarch across the way between us and demand to know the answers to what had been on my mind since I saw him standing next to my chair at dinner.
Finding out he was in an MC didn’t scare me, though I wasn’t sure exactly if I shouldn’t be leery of him. I’d heard the stories about MCs doing good, but I also heard of them doing horrible things.
I didn’t know if I could trust that he’s not going to bring trouble to my door one day.
No, that wouldn’t happen. Staring at the man himself now holding his son, worrying for him, I know he’d never intentionally bring trouble to my life if he could help it.
The way he’s holding his son close speaks way more volumes than anything he could ever say.
“Is he okay?” I managed to ask him without my voice sounding off.
“Doctor’s coming to check on him. She’s a friend of the club’s.”
She?
I didn’t know doctors made house calls.
“She’s also my brother Mace’s mom,” he says before I can say anything.
“Oh, okay.” I nod and lick my bottom lip nervously, glancing around the room again before deciding it’s best to go. “Well, I’ll leave you to it. Letme know if there’s anything I can do to help,” I tell him, meeting his gaze once again.
Wolf doesn’t respond with words. Instead, he nods, watching me closely.
Slowly, I turn and head for the door. I stop, just in the doorway, and look back in his direction. I give him a brief smile and walk out the door. I don’t bother looking behind me as I make my way across the yards to my front door. I can feel him watching me as I go.
At my door, I unlock it by pressing in the code. I find I like having a keycode for a lock rather than having to unlock it with a key at all times. I think it’s the only code I know by heart. Though, it was from all the times I’ve had to put the code in. I still have it in my phone, where I can access it if need be.
I step over the threshold and reach for the light switch. When the light doesn’t come on, I frown and look in the direction of the switch.
Why won’t it come on?
Setting my clutch down on the little entrance table, I slip off my heels and step farther into the house. Maybe a fuse tripped or something.
I make it a few steps farther before stopping. Something about this doesn’t sit right with me. Moving graciously back to the door, I open it as quietlyas I can and quickly step back outside. I don’t bother closing the door behind me. Instead, I run on my heels back across the way to Wolf’s and knock on his door.
