Page 41 of When He Fights
Ana looked at Kane.“What is happening right now?”
“Oh, you can’t tell?”Kane returned, keeping his voice mild.A real effort considering how much rage and adrenaline still poured through his system.All he wanted to do was rush out of that house, get down to the jail, and beat the ever-loving shit out of Turner Mitchell.“Clearly, Gray is losing his mind.”
“I amnot,” Gray denied at once.
“Then get back to the real focus,” Kane snapped.“In case you missed it, Ana is the focus.Not some prick psychiatrist?—”
“Emerson Marlowe is not a prick.She’s just a pain in my ass.”Gray rolled back his shoulders.“I’ll deal with her.”Then, softer as if to himself, “I’ll deal with her.”
“Uh, huh.Fabulous for you,” Kane told him.His heart still pounded too fast.And he could too easily imagine shoving Turner back beneath the water with the swimming sharks.Yeah, I have issues.Because Kane had issues, he did not have time to deal with Gray’s troubles, too.“Why didn’t Turner attack Ana sooner?”
Gray blinked.“Because maybe her ex wanted an up close view.Maybe Turner was waiting until Logan could witness her murder.”
Ana jumped to her feet.She tossed down the pillow she’d been holding as if it was suddenly red-hot.“What?”Her voice had risen several high-pitched notches.
Another grimace from Gray.“I don’t have proof.Just suspicion.Two scenarios are tumbling around in my head, based on what I know about the perp.”
Ana and Kane both stared at him.
“Okay, yeah, a full explanation.You want that, don’t you?”
“No, we just want you to be mysterious and annoying for the rest of the night,” Ana snapped.
Fuck, she was fun.The woman had just stolen the sarcastic words right out of Kane’s mouth.
Gray rose to his feet.He rolled back his shoulders.“Logan is possessive when it comes to you.”
She wrapped her arms around her waist.“Tell me something I don’t know.”
“At the trial, Logan could not take his gaze off you.He tracked every single move that you made.His lawyer asked him to stop, said that he was too intense, that it was disturbing the jury, but Logan didn’t.I think because he couldn’t stop.”
Kane hadn’t been at the trial.He’d wanted to be there with Ana, but Gray and the other Feds had ordered him away.
So I waited outside of the courtroom.I’d watch her go in and out.And?—
“He was pissed at you for betraying him, but Logan still saw you ashis,” Gray noted.
“I’m not a possession or a toy.I’m not his,” she fired right back.
“Understood.”Gray nodded.“It’s possible that, if he got your location a while back, Logan wanted eyes on you.He told Turner to get close.To monitor your life.To monitor you.Maybe Logan wanted to make sure that there were no new lovers in your life.”
A faint line cut between her eyebrows.“Turner starteddatingme!Doesn’t that completely destroy this whole theory?Or hypothesis?Whatever it is?If Logan wants me all for himself, then why send someone else to date me?That’s just bizarre.”
“Date you,” Kane heard himself say because he was not convinced that Gray was wrong on this idea.“Not fuck you.”Logan had definitely been obsessed when it came to Ana.When he learned that Ana was working with the Feds, Logan could have cut his losses.He could have tried to flee the country.Instead, he’d stalked Ana like a predator after prey.
Her lips clamped together.
“No man would date you and not want to fuck you.He wouldn’t be around you and not want to take you.”Kane’s words held a savage edge.“But maybe Turner was ordered not to cross that line.Maybe his job was to keep others away from you.”
“Uh, that’s…wrong.”She rocked forward onto the balls of her feet but kept right on hugging herself.“Not every man who comes into my life wants to fuck me, I can assure you of that.Not like someone gets next to me and just has this overwhelming urge to have sex with me.”
I do.That’s exactly the way I feel.
“I mean, what guy would actually feel that way?”Ana asked.
“Kane.”Gray just dropped his name like a bombshell.
Her eyes got very big and very round.
