Page 28 of No Fear
“Note?” Remy asked in confusion.
“Y-yeah, I… I… crap. I just…”
Colt nodded knowingly when she stuttered, “Yeah, Sky freaked out. You’d better get inside so she can see you’re okay. She was really worried about you. We both were.”
“Remy…” She glanced up at him, worrying her lips but he cut her off with a shake of his head.
“It’s okay. Go. Go to work and I’ll come over to check on you later. Maybe I can bring by lunch and we can eat together. How does that sound?”
“Too good to be true?” She smiled and he chuckled.
“Don’t leave that salon without letting me know, okay?”
“Okay.”
“I’ll see you soon, baby.” He kissed her softly and far too briefly before pulling away and pushing her towards the door of the salon.
He stood there, watching her walk away from him, and he had to fight the urge to go after her. He didn’t want to let her out of his sight and knowing that she was an adult, that she had a job she needed to get to, did nothing to lessen that need to hold her close and keep her safe. He watched her until she disappeared behind the glass door and it felt like his heart went with her.
Jesus, he’d never known he could feel like this. So out of control, so needy and possessive. He loved his brothers but he’d still left them behind when he had to in order to save himself. With Rachel, he wasn’t so sure anything but death would ever keep him from her side.
He jolted when a loud, female squeal echoed out onto the street. He took a step towards the salon before he even realized he was moving. Only a strong hand on his arm managed to stop him and he jerked his attention to his brother.
“Don’t worry. That’s Skylar’s happy scream. If it was the other kind, I’d beat you over there.”
He snorted when his brother released his arm, “You know Skylar has different screams for her moods?”
“Something tells me all the jokes about me and Cash being possessive little bastards are about to die a pitiful death, bro.” Colt motioned to the tattoo studio he owned behind him, “Come on. We need to talk.”
He followed his little brother through the swinging door, “You read my mind but I’m warning you, if this is some speech about staying away from her…”
“It’s not.”
“Good, because that ship sailed weeks ago.”
“I know.” Colt smirked when Remy raised a surprised brow, “You might not look all that much like me or Cash but I know that look, bro. I think it’s the same look for anyone and you’ve had it since… hell since the day you met the girl.”
“I love her.”
Colt stopped walking and faced him fully. The shock written on his little brother’s face would have been funny in another situation. He opened his mouth, shut it again and then scratched his jaw before snorting.
“Damn, okay. You can just come right out with that kind of shit, huh? Good for you. It took me way too long to figure out how to say it. You’re a helluva lot further in the game than I was at this point.”
“This isn’t a game.” He shook his head, “I love her, Colt.”
“You barely know her.”
He scowled at the thought he’d had himself, more than once in the past month. There was so much about Rachel that he still didn’t know, that he needed to know. He wanted to spend the rest of his life learning everything there was to know about her and he would but there was at least one thing that he did know.
“I know that I love her and I know that I at least have a shot of making her love me so for right now, I know enough.”
“The hell you do.”
He grit his teeth, “Damn it Colt, what’s your point?”
“You don’t have any idea do you?” His brother threw his hands up, “You have no idea why Rachel left Sky a note saying that if she went missing or if something happened to her that she should look in the trailer for the evidence.”
Remy’s heart stopped. It just… stopped. He shuddered out a breath and barely managed to take another. He’d known Rachel was in trouble. He’d known that she was scared. But he hadn’t realized she actually feared for her life.
