Page 158 of Tainted Romance

‘Calm down, Zane.’Her voice floated in my head like she knew I was about to have a full-on rage attack.‘You’re really gripping my thigh.’She gave me a pointed look while still on the phone.

I hadn’t even realized I was doing it. I loosened my grip on her thigh, but that didn’t mean I was loosening the grip on her.

“I’m sure Ebony wasn’t thinking, and it was because of me, but come get me anyway and we can talk. I’ll make you see reason, even if you don’t want to, Falcon. I’ll be out the front in five.” She hung up.

“You aren’t going,” I said before she even hung up.

“I have to. Something about Ebony sleeping with some random guy.” She sighed and turned on my lap, smiling. “Stop looking so worried.”

“I don’t trust him near you.” That was an understatement. If Ebony had pissed him off, he would be looking for payback, and now that I had seen Allie naked, I knew what he was after.

Ebony and Blake’s relationship was toxic, and I wanted them far away from Allie and mine’s, especially when it was still new.

Her lips on mine caused me to reconnect to the moment.

“Stop worrying, Zane.” Her hand cupped my face, and she smiled. “I’ll be fine.”

“How long will you be?”

“Can you hear him?” Ryder snapped. “Seriously, Allie, this is what you are going to have to put up with for the rest of your life.”

She snuck a glance at Ryder and rolled her eyes.

“So, how long will you be?” I asked again. Maybe she would be half an hour?

“I’m guessing, but, by the sounds of it, Blake is going to need me for the rest of the weekend.”

I looked at her like she couldn’t be serious. She couldn’t be, could she?

“He has a mate. Tell him to go to her.”

“I think she is the problem. Stop looking so worried. I’ll be spending the weekend handing him beers and maybe helping him pull a girl to square things back up with Ebony, but that’s it.”

“You staying at his house?”

“I guess.”

I shook my head not wanting to believe it. “So that’s how you are going to work it. One night in mine. One night in his.”

“It isn’t like that.” She narrowed her eyes at me, looking hurt I had even said it. “I’m not fucking him.”

“You could be for all I know.”

“HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT!” She was furious and got off me as if I had burnt her. She looked so hurt as she looked at me. “You didn’t even last twelve hours,” she spat at me with a hurt and a regretful expression. She walked off, and I was quick to follow her.

God, she could move when she wanted to. She was bolting up the stairs.

“ALLIE!”

Fine! If she wanted to run, I knew where she was running to and that was my room to get her stuff. I could easily lock her in there.

My door was open by the time I got up the flight of stairs and reached it, and she was already walking out. I gripped her by the arm.

“Tell him you can’t go.”

“After what you just said, what has you thinking I would want to stay here with you?!” She went to pull her arm from my grasp, but I held on tighter.

“I’m sorry.”

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