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“You two need to chill the fuck out before you have aneurysms,” I told them.
I was just thankful their blood pressure was all that was affected and I wasn’t dead yet.
“You’re talking about spanking our sister,” Colt gritted out.
“Don’t tell me you haven’t thought about it before.”
“A million times,” Trig admitted. His meal was forgotten, but he still held his fork.
“You touched our sister?” Colt growled, leaning forward as if he didn’t want the other patrons to know I was close to being shot.
“Not a chance in hell am I telling you shit about what’s private between me and Lainey. She might be your sister but she’s a grown-ass woman.”
They sat there mulishly silent.
“I’m not gonna fuck around on her like her ex. I’m not gonna bad mouth her or kiss and tell.” I looked at Trig. “You know me. You know my character. The only person who I’m ever gonna seek permission for doing anything with Lainey is Lainey. You can get your other brothers together and beat the shit out of me, but it’s not gonna change a thing. I’m her man.”
“You said she knows this?” Colt asked, one eyebrow arching. “‘Cause our sister doesn’t like to be told anything.”
I nodded. “I’ve told her, and I got that.”
The way she’d looked at me across her parents’ dinner table was what gave her away. I didn’t miss the interest in her gaze, the way she flushed the prettiest shade of pink. The way she tried to ignore me, but couldn’t. She’d felt the pull between us as strongly as I had.
There was something between us and I was gonna find out exactly what it was. I just had to make sure I did it the right way so I didn’t get a knee to my balls or a shallow burial on the Wilder ranch.
They were quiet for thirty seconds. A minute. They looked to each other, then nodded.
“Good luck with that,” Trig said, the corner of his mouth tipping up. That small motion was enough for me to know I was gonna probably have a hell of a time.
I sighed. I didn’t need their permission, but I was glad to have it anyway.
“You hurt her, we hurt you.”
Colt’s words were the closest thing to their approval as I was gonna get.
6
LAINEY
I was sofurious I didn’t even remember the drive out to the hotel by the highway. With the fair going on, the lot was full. Since I had Beau’s room number, I skipped the elevator and took the stairs to the second floor.
When he opened his door, my anger stalled for a moment at the sight of him.
Fuck me.
He was only in a towel. And hotel towels weren’t very big.
Water droplets ran in rivulets down hisbare torso. Obviously, he’d just gotten out of the shower.
He had a tattoo on his pec I never expected. Same went for the dark smattering of chest hair or the way it merged at his navel into a line that went beneath the white towel.
Holy shit, the man was fit. Sturdy and–
“See something you like, love?”
That snapped me out of my hot body trance.
“You told my brother?” I snapped, remembering why I was here and not answering his question. Although, my cheeks were hot from being caught.
