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“There a problem here?” Even I had to shiver at his authoritative, take-control tone. Damn, for an old dude, he was kind of sexy.
Wait, huh?
Sure I didn’t peg him to be that much older than me, maybe like ten years, but still. And sexy? Well, I mean, sure, but not really my type. But then again, Lake wasn’t really my type either.
Thinking about Lake, had my gaze sliding over to look at him. His eyes were already on me and I could see the worry there. And maybe a tinge of fear.
I didn’t want to let the train run away thinking about what it meant. We barely knew each other and I knew that fear wasn’t there for me.
With a quick shake of his head, Iron moved to take the seat beside me.
“What the fuck is goin’ on?” he asked and his tone was not one to be messed with.
“You’re little friend has been sitting outside of my business for three nights now. And it would seem that she didn’t take to the warning she received last night, so I decided to find out for myself what was going on. And try to have her move along as quickly as possible.”
“And she tell you?” Iron asked.
My eyes ping-ponged between the two, it was almost as if no one else was in the room, especially me, with the way they were talking.
She didn’t open her mouth to answer, instead gave him one slow, affirming nod.
“And what warning?” His head cocked to the side as he aimed the question at me.
Ahhh, there it was. Yeah, he knew I was in the room.
“Ummmm…” I said as my eyes slid to Lake’s searching for some reinforcement.
But as he moved to step up and take the blame, I had to stop him with a shake of the head. I could see it, that need to protect me. However, it was on me. I knew I should have gone to Iron right away but everything was such a mess.
So I told Iron, right then and there, what had happened. The same thing I’d told Lake before we, you know, got distracted.
“You said that to him?” Iron asked with a hint of pride in his voice after I quickly explained to him how I told the dick-bag detective to fuck off.
I shrugged. Yeah, I had, and maybe I was a little proud of it myself.
“You did good, Bridget.”
That was all I got before he turned his attention back to the woman across from us.
And I waited to see how the hell we were going to get out of this. While I didn’t think she was going to hurt us, she also didn’t seem like she was going to let us walk out any time soon.
