Total pages in book: 145
Estimated words: 146666 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 733(@200wpm)___ 587(@250wpm)___ 489(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 146666 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 733(@200wpm)___ 587(@250wpm)___ 489(@300wpm)
But right now . . . she couldn’t see what he was thinking anyway. He was completely closed off from her.
“Hi, Greer-bear.”
A sob left her at the nickname. It was one she hadn’t heard in years. He was the only person to ever call her that. She could see the sob shocked him as much as it did her. Then he grimaced.
“Don’t cry.”
She flung herself forward into his arms. She didn’t care if he didn’t want a hug. He’d just have to put up with it. Another sob escaped.
“Greer. Do. Not. Cry.” The words were said between gritted teeth.
She smacked the palm of her uninjured hand down on his chest. “Shut up! Shut. Up.”
“Greer?” There was confusion and worry in his voice, but she didn’t care.
She drew back, glaring up at him as tears streamed down her face. Then she pulled her foot back and kicked him in the shin.
“Ow! Fuck! What the hell was that for?” He stared down at her in shock.
Greer waggled a finger at him. “You do not get to tell me not to cry.” She wiped her face with her arm. “I’ll cry if I want to fucking cry! I have a right to cry. My baby brother just came back from the dead, then he scared the fuck out of me when I thought he was an intruder. He chased me and made me fall over, and then he tells me not to fucking cry!”
She kicked his shin again.
To her shock, he didn’t try to stop her, so she did it again. A bike roared toward them, but she didn’t pay it any attention as she kicked him another time.
“Well? Don’t you have something to say? Where were you? Where were you when I needed you? Where?”
She knew she was acting crazed, but she couldn’t stop it. All of the fear and sadness she’d felt over the years was rearing up and overwhelming her.
Aiden’s neighbors were probably going to call the cops if she didn’t stop. She needed to calm down. Go inside. Talk to him like a rational adult.
Too bad she didn’t feel all that rational. Or very adult.
“Why? Tell me why,” she pleaded.
“I can’t tell you why,” he said quietly. “Kick me again.”
But she didn’t want to. She was barely aware of the bike parking next to them and someone jumping off. She was too busy losing her mind.
She fell against him again, sobbing as she smacked her fist into his chest. “Why. Why. Why.”
“What’s going on here? Greer?”
Oh shit.
What was Hack doing here?
Turning, she took him in.
Was it possible that he looked even hotter than before?
Wearing jeans and a white T-shirt along with a leather jacket, he had this badass vibe pouring out of him. It was enough to make her shiver with a mix of arousal and fear.
Suddenly, Cash moved, shoving her behind him as he faced off against the guy approaching. “Stay the fuck back.”
She froze.
That didn’t even sound like her baby brother.
The guy who’d just shoved her behind his back . . . to protect her?
That wasn’t her brother.
She’d always been the one to look out for him. At least until he’d gotten mixed up with that gang and decided he didn’t want to know her.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?” Hack snapped angrily. “Get away from her. Greer, come here.”
She tried to move to him, hoping she might be able to diffuse the heated situation, but Cash held an arm out, stopping her.
“Who are you? Greer, you know this guy?” Cash spat out as he shoved her back, making her hiss as he knocked her sore arm.
“Watch it!” Hack said. “You just fucking hurt her. Big mistake, dickhead.”
“Why do you care? Who. Are. You.”
“Cash, this is Hack,” she said hastily. “He’s a friend of Aidan’s. I met him a few days ago.”
And she couldn’t stop dreaming about him, thinking about him. . . urgh, she had it bad.
“Hack? The surgeon guy who belongs to that gang Aidan is part of?” Cash asked.
“It’s a motorcycle club. And yeah, I’m a friend of Sav’s. Greer, I got a call from you. When you weren’t on the line, I decided to come over. Luckily, I wasn’t far away.”
Oh, shit.
“Sorry. I thought there was an intruder in the house and I must have hit your name when I was trying to call someone for help.”
Oops.
“I want you to come here. Now.” Hack sounded dark. Deadly. Like he was seconds away from completely losing his mind.
Crap. She felt like such an idiot now for running away from Cash and accidentally calling Hack.
The two guys stood staring at one another, and she knew she had to do something before the neighbors really did call the cops.
She moved away from Cash, stepping into the light.
“Greer,” Cash snapped, reaching for her. “I didn’t say you could move, get back.”