Page 53 of No Fear
“What? Why?”
“Because hearing you say my brother’s name, ever, makes my fists clench but hearing you say his name here, in our bed, makes me want to put my fist through his handsome face.”
Our bed. She bit down harder on her lips to quell the smile. He’d saidourbed.
“Remy Bomar…” She said instead, “Are you jealous?”
She expected him to laugh it off. She thought he would make a joke or an innuendo. Instead, he surprised her by meeting her eyes and nodding seriously.
“If that’s what you want to call this insane urge to deck my brother for ever having breathed the same air as you, then yeah, I’m jealous as hell.”
“You do know that Colt only has eyes for Skylar right?”
“Yeah, but what about you?” His eyes studied her face and that furrow appeared between his brows again, “Did you have eyes for him? A crush or something? You said you met him first and…”
“I didn’t mean it like that.” She cut him off.
“So you didn’t have a thing for him?”
“No. I didn’t have a thing for him. He was just the first of you guys I actually got to know and… he’s not a bad guy.”
“No. He’s not. He’s one of the good ones.”
“He is. Just like you.”
“I don’t know if I’d go that far…”
She tilted his chin back towards her when he started to look away, “I would. I do. You’re a good man, Remy. That’s why it worries me, you working for Lincoln. I don’t want you to get hurt or… worse.”
“Nothing’s gonna happen to me.”
“But…”
“All I do is fight, babe. And nobody’s gonna beat me in that cage. Nobody.” Remy kissed the end of her nose, “The rest of it, the stuff with Colt, we’re not going to let that happen again. Link’s gonna find his traitor and the danger will go away and my cousins won’t be hanging around the salon all the time. You’ll be safe. We’ll all be safe.”
She tried not to flinch at the mention of the traitor. The danger, everyone on red alert, and she had the power to fix it. She could protect Skylar and Jemma, Cash and Colt, even Remy. All she had to do was find the strength inside herself to say the words.
“I’m glad they were there yesterday though, to take care of you when I didn’t know you were in danger.”
“Yeah…” She managed a nod, “F-Ford sent Craig away. I-I need to thank him for that.”
“You can’t even say his name without flinching. I’ll tell him you said thank you.” Remy smirked, “He’s a scary fucker huh?”
“He looks it but… I-I don’t know. I think he has a soft side.”
Remy laughed, “Oh, I don’t know if I’d go that far but he is a good guy. I trust him and there aren’t too many of my cousin’s I would say that about.”
“R-R-Royce?”
“Do I trust Royce? Hell no. Trouble follows that guy like it’s his shadow.”
“No. Royce. That’s Bentley’s twin right? Lincoln and Ford’s younger brother?”
“Yeah.” Remy drew the word out slowly, seriousness returning to his face, “Why?”
She knew from the look on his face that deciding to answer his earlier question had been a good idea, “I-I… I think he’s the one that hangs out with Craig. I know it wasn’t the others so… It was Royce.”
“You’re sure it wasn’t one of the Bible Bomars? Abel or his brothers? There’s a bunch of them too and their business crosses with Lincoln’s a lot of the time.”
