Sizzle (Bad Boy Rockers) (Volume 1)(46)

He stopped dead and looked at me. Then grinned. “You think I’m hot?”

“Oh please.” I could feel myself blushing.

“Yeah, you do.” He started laughing while he pulled me along with him.

I pulled him to a stop. “Yeah, I think you’re hot, but I wanted to send a picture to my friend in Texas.”

His eyes widened.

“Please...”

He was the one who was embarrassed as I retrieved my phone from my back pocket.

“Say cheese.”

After I quickly snapped the picture I sent it to Callie, telling her Donovan awaited her in Alabama. I decided to keep the fact that Donovan and Reece looked to be players to myself. If anyone could tame Donovan, it would be Callie.





Chapter 35


Jack


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“So this is where you’re hiding?” Donovan said, taking a seat opposite me.

“I’m not hiding. Skipped breakfast so I needed to fuel up, especially after the beer over at Kix.”

“Beer?”

I’d stunned him into silence. “Yeah, I ended up there, figuring other than you guys no one would know where I was. Ryder kept shoving the beer into my hand, so I drank.”

He shook his head. “I’ve just taken your woman home; in case you were interested.”

I stopped eating and glared at him.

“I saw her dart into the forest, alone, so I followed her and sat and watched her for about twenty minutes while she cried buckets; because of you.”

Fuck, I’d lost my appetite.

Mandy one of the servers was walking by so I passed her my plate. She gave me a quick glance then the plate before she removed it and took it back to the kitchen.

“I don’t know what to say.” I put my head in my hands then looked back to Donovan. “What did you say?”

He leaned back in his seat deep in thought. “I told her she needed to talk to you, because you couldn’t stand Mia.”

“Shit. What did you tell her that for? Hell, I don’t know what I was going to say to her, but I need my parents and Mia’s to believe that the wedding is going ahead for now until it all gets sorted. Hell, for all I know I might end up having to go through with it.”

“So it wouldn’t bother you if she went off with someone else?”

It would kill me to see her with another guy. I sighed, it was the same as what it was doing to her if Donovan was telling me the truth and he had no reason to lie.

“I didn’t think so. Talk to her and tell her the truth. She needs to know what she’s feeling isn’t one sided.”

No matter how much of an ass Donovan...and Reece could be, they always knew the correct thing to say. Unless they wanted to yank my chain, then fists usually flew.

“Was she that upset?

“Yeah, she was. Also on the way back to the house, she told me about Mia. How could you let Mia railroad her into being a bridesmaid at the wedding of the guy she’s in love with? How f*cked is that?”

Unable to breathe, I slipped out from the booth. “Let’s get out of here.” We grabbed our jackets making our way back outside.

Standing on the sidewalk, I felt as though I could finally catch my breath and started walking back to Kix.

“Hey, I’ve got my wheels over here,” Donovan shouted, already on his way to his car.

Donovan kept his car spotless with the most kick-ass stereo system ever invented.

“You know I’ve been thinking.”

I cocked an eyebrow at him in question. Donovan and thinking was dangerous.

“I think you and Mia need to get together and put a stop to all this. Her father obviously cares about her in his own weird way, surely if he knows she’s in love with Liam, he’ll accept that. Once he does, it will leave you to get it on with Thalia, and there is no way your father will do what he threatened. That was all talk, which, if I remember, I told you twelve months ago.”

It only took us a couple of minutes to pull up outside of Kix so climbing from the car I leaned my elbows on the hood when in actual fact I felt like banging my head against it.

“I just want to forget everything for tonight and get lost in our music; anymore I’m going to crack.”

The front door to Kix opened then slammed shut. “What are you two girls doing out here?” Reece asked.

Grinning, I replied, “Waiting for the third to join us.”

“Ha ha – funny; not. While you two *’s have been gossiping like a bunch of women, there’s work to be done.”

We both just stood and watched him retreat back inside.

“What’s up his ass?”

“Fuck if I know. He was fine when I was in here earlier talking to Ryder.”

The rest of the afternoon was spent helping Ryder get all the alcohol, which had been delivered, put away. It went either behind the bar or in the cellar and the work kept my mind busy; only an odd thought crossing my mind about Thalia and what the hell I was going to say to her when we finally had time alone. One thing I did know was that I had to keep my hands to myself when we did get together; touching her wasn’t an option.

Sitting with my back to the bar, I’d been watching everyone arrive for the past hour, maybe longer, and the place was filling up good.