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Oh my God!
He grabbed the creepy guy by his shirt and hoisted him into the air. “No one fucks with my girl,” he said, loud enough for me to hear across the room, then punched him.
I gasped. “Bray!”
I stood to go to him but Cody grabbed the hem of my t-shirt and stopped me. “Stay right here, sweetheart.”
Bray loosened his hold and the guy fell to the floor in an unconscious heap.
The fight drew everyone’s attention. Bray didn’t seem to notice, only turned and focused back on me. Oh my. The dark blue eyes. The square jaw. The intensity. He didn’t look angry. He looked… possessive. Like he protected what was his and I was his.
That couldn’t be true. This wasn’t real. He was pretending.Right?
Step by step he closed the distance. I swallowed hard, unable to look away. This wasnotthe teenage version of Bray I used to crush over. He had probably packed on thirty more pounds of muscle and had enough life experience beneath his huge belt bucklefor everyone in a one mile radius to know that he didn’t fuck around.
He barely slowed when he got to me, only grabbing his hat from my head and setting it back on his before he leaned down and tossed me over his shoulder.
“Bray!” I cried again as he carried me right out of the bar.
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BRAY
The thingsthat fucker said to me about Katie… he deserved more than being punched in the face. How I must not care how ugly she was when my dick was in her mouth. That she must suck like a Hoover vacuum.
No one talked about her that way. Besides being so fucking disrespectful, it was plain wrong. She was gorgeous. While I definitely imagined her sucking me off, no one else could.
No one.
Especially not that asshole.
The second she climbed into my lap and whispered in my ear, she was mine. Like an earthquake thatshook the earth before settling into a more solid, new way.
My brother Trig had found his woman, Ellie, in a fucking snowstorm over the winter. He’d said he saw her and knew she was his. One look, that was all it took. The way Colt told everyone how he met Molly, he saw her in the stands at a rodeo and had been struck by lightning.
Except I’d known Katie since we were kids. Maybe she’d been mine for as long as I could remember. I just needed a stupid asshole to get her to climb in my lap and rub her little pussy all over me for me to realize that there was nothing else I wanted to do in this world than take care of her.
Because while she said topretend,it was obvious from the kiss and how she writhed and moaned in my lap, that she wanted me right back. She sure as hell hadn’t pretended. Not the way I felt how hard her nipples were pressed against my chest. Or her little moan when we kissed. It was the real deal because I never once heard about her having a boyfriend. Not a high school crush or a college… no, she hadn’t gone to college. Not a guy in Devil’s Ditch. I’d know because I’d have heard Mom or Lainey mention it.
Katie wanted my kisses? She wanted to make herself come on my thigh? She wanted to moan and whimper when I touched her?
Good, because I’d give heranythingshe wanted.
In fact, I had a good feeling I knew exactly what sheneeded.
Was this an issue that she was my little sister’s best friend? I’d thought it was, but no longer. Maybe for Lainey, but she’d have to get over it. I was done keeping my distance from Katie Camden.
I cut through the crowd, recognizing a number of familiar faces. Some amused, mostly men. Some stunned, all women. I didn’t pay them any attention. When I got outside, the music and noise of the bar faded away. I walked directly to my pickup with Katie over my shoulder, only putting her down after I opened the passenger door, flung a pair of leather work gloves out of the way, and set her on the seat.
The parking lot was full, but there were only a few people heading in or out. It was well lit, but my truck was tucked back from the street.
“You okay, kitten?” I asked.
I needed to know before this went any further.
“I’m okay. Thanks for your help.” She nodded, then glanced around. “Bray, I have to go back to work.”
I shook my head. “Not happening. Not with that fucker still in there.”
