Page 47 of Sheltered By Love

I have to raise my voice over the sound of radio chatter and Jax and Levi, but I try to soften my words. “What made you come out?”

He swipes his eyes, and his chin juts a little. Now he’s heading back, a little of his bravado is returning. “Don’t know.”

It’s not hard to figure out why he wanted to get away. It can’t be easy being the youngest kid in a family of lobstermen.

They’re all up at three am checking the weather and not back until five pm. Levi, Garrett, and I know better than anyone that doesn’t leave room for anything else.

Jax slaps him on the back hard enough to make the poor kid flinch. “You want to go out again, you come to see one of us.”

Noah sniffs and out of respect, nods. “Yes, sir.”

I figure the poor kid is going to get enough grief when he gets home so I just wrap him in the thermal blanket.

“No harm done. You learned a lesson. Let’s get you home,” I say.

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