Total pages in book: 72
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 73043 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 365(@200wpm)___ 292(@250wpm)___ 243(@300wpm)
I smiled as I inserted my key and pushed open the door.
My first indication that things weren’t right were my dogs’ reactions.
They yipped and started to growl, causing me to look back at them with a frown.
I walked in and froze when I saw the clothes on the floor.
Not Rafe’s. And certainly not mine. That bra on the floor wouldn’t have even fit me in my teenage years when I was a normal boob size.
It certainly wouldn’t fit me now.
Those panties that were next to the bra wouldn’t fit either.
I stepped inside and saw the jeans and skimpy top next. And I knew exactly who they belonged to.
I walked over the clothes and followed my senses to Rafe’s room.
And saw red.
Elspeth lay seemingly sated on the bed, and I could hear the shower running in the bathroom.
I walked calmly to the bed, then snatched Elspeth up by the hair.
Now, normally I wasn’t a violent person. Really, I wasn’t.
But something switched inside me. Some dark, hidden compulsion washed over me, and suddenly my rage was all consuming.
I was just so. Fucking. Mad.
Which was why I went all Hulk on her and lifted her fabricated sleeping ass right out of my man’s bed.
“You manipulating whore,” I said. “What the hell is it going to take to get it through your head?”
Elspeth “woke up” with a surprised shriek.
“Owwww!” she screamed. “Let go!”
Yeah freakin’ right. I wasn’t letting her go until she was out of the house.
And, as I led her through the house to the front door, I said, “You better grab your clothes as you pass them. Because otherwise, you’ll be giving the neighbors a free show. Not to mention they’re having a party across the street. You’ll stick out like a sore thumb.”
I didn’t slow down even a little as I dragged her out with me toward the door.
And, surprisingly, she even managed to grab her jeans, purse, and bra.
Highly impressed, I opened the door, then gave a satisfying tug on her hair.
She went flying onto the porch, and I glared at her when she picked herself up. She turned around and started to come at me.
She froze, but that might also be because I got my concealed carry out to point at her.
“I’m literally to the point right now where I’ll shoot you and deal with the repercussions later,” I said. “I’m fairly positive I could thrive in prison.”
I heard a snort from behind me but didn’t give Elspeth the chance to do anything by turning around. Instead, I kept my serious eyes on her.
“Go.”
Elspeth stood up, and that’s when the neighbors across the street started to squeal. Not because of Elspeth’s naked ass, but because of something else—a dog maybe.
I didn’t pull my eyes away from Elspeth as she started to rush down the stairs.
In fact, I waited until she was in her car completely before I backed out of the doorway, closed the door, and turned my glare on the man behind me.
He didn’t look pleased.
In fact, I would go as far as to say he was pissed.
But not at me.
At her.
Which only got me angrier.
I wasn’t mad that I’d found that witch in his bed while he was in the shower. I knew they hadn’t done anything. I also knew that he never would. Rafe just wasn’t that type of man.
I was mad that he’d let someone into his house while he was vulnerable. He had no clue she was there, and that made me angry.
“What were you thinking?” I bellowed.
Rafe’s brows went up.
“Nothing happened,” he said. “I didn’t even know she was here!”
“I know that, moron,” I snarled. “You could’ve gotten killed! Don’t you know how to lock your doors? Because I’m pretty sure if you did, you wouldn’t have riff-raff coming in without your knowledge!”
He tilted his head. “I wasn’t going to be killed.”
“You were in the shower with literally nothing to protect yourself! You even left your gun on the bed!”
“Let me get this straight. You’re mad at me not because I have a woman in my bed. Naked. But because she could’ve killed me while I wasn’t paying attention.”
I nodded, throat thick with my anger and a whole lot of worry.
“If you’re going to do this to me all the fucking time, then I might as well leave now. It’s like you don’t even care about your life at all.”
Rafe’s eyes narrowed. “I’m a grown ass adult, Janie. In fact, I’m even more of an adult than you are. I’m forty-one years old. Swear to Christ, you don’t even pay attention to that fact.”
I wanted to scream at him for his nonchalance.
It was as if he didn’t care that a good fright could kill him. As if he didn’t have his days already numbered. I mean, he could possibly die at any moment thanks to a brain aneurysm—and he just didn’t care.