Page 79 of Justice

But it wasn’t hurting. I didn’t know what Sebastian had done, but I also didn’t care. I was just grateful the pain was gone.

I stared through the window, worrying at my lip with my teeth. I didn’t want to be alone, but I was also panicking about Sebastian. “Shouldn’t you be helping him?”

“Nope.”

“But he’s outnumbered.”

Danny snorted. “Two against one isn’t outnumbered when the one is Sebastian LeClerc.”

There was that tone again, the same one the other men had used. Like the words were so much more than a name. A myth. A legend.

One that caused panic at the mere mention of it.

Suddenly, it made sense why everyone had tried to tell me to stay from him. He was everything he’d said he was.

Dangerous.

Ruthless.

Unforgiving.

But with me…he was none of those things. He was gentle. Kind. Calm.

He called me ‘sunshine.’

He’d told me to hold on for him. That he’d come for me.

And he had.

My breath fogged up the glass as I refused to take my eyes off the front door, willing Sebastian to step through it.

It felt like an age before he finally did. He wasn’t in the clothes he’d entered in. Like Danny, he was now wearing just a pair of dark jogging bottoms. His hair was wet and slicked back, like he’d had a shower.

I watched him through the window, searching him for any signs of injury. When I couldn’t see any, the knot that had formed in my chest when he left eased.

No injuries, just acres of creamy skin on display. My eyes were drawn to the way his muscles flexed as he strode for the car. Crikey, who knew Sebastian was hiding abs under his button-up shirts?

Not what you should be thinking about right now, Matty.

I was expecting him to get in the driver’s seat, but instead he yanked Danny’s door open. “Move.”

Danny huffed. “Seriously?”

I couldn’t see Sebastian’s expression, but from the grumpy growl he gave, I had no issue picturing it. “Do I look like I’m joking?”

“You wouldn’t know a joke if you bent it over and fucked it in the arse.”

“Fucking is never a joke.”

I swear, I almost smiled. The muscles in my cheeks tugged upwards, but it was like my lips wouldn’t move.

They were too weighed down by what’d just happened.

Danny grumbled but did as Sebastian asked. They exchanged a few words, too quiet for me to hear, before Sebastian was sliding in beside me.

“Okay if I sit back here with you?”

I nodded mutely, shifting over to the middle seat. Whatever had had me not wanting Danny to touch me didn’t seem to apply to Sebastian.

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