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She was going to have to h She knew Natches was looking to sell his share in the Mackay restaurant if she decided she wanted to buy hi she had been thinking about for htened from the fireplace, turned, and moved toward her
He didn’t walk, he stalked Dark, heavy muscle flexed in his arms, chest, and powerful abdomen His jeans lay low on his hips and beneath them, she could tell he was still heavily aroused
"My face is fine" She let the ice pack drop to the coffee table in front of her before leaning back against the couch cushions as he sat down beside her
His fingers curled along her jaw to turn her face to where he could get a better look
"You should have gone to the hospital," he said, his voice dark, rough
"I’ve had worse" She shrugged "The absolute worst hit I ever had was given by a woo She gave me a concussion with her fist That wasn’t fun" She save hi at me, I’m fine"
"Yeah, you’re fine For now" He shook his head as he released her jaw "What about the next tiue?"
"Well, I’ll deal with the next time when it comes around," she told him quietly, then asked hesitantly, "Are you worried because of what happened to your wife?"
Rogue watched as all emotion cleared from his face with her question
"What did you hear aboutshe wasn’t frightened of big men like her sister was, or cared who she pissed off
"I heard your wife died during an investigation you were conducting in LA You were posing as a SWAT member interested in the BDSM lifestyle to expose anotherthe inforh" And evidently, she had dug just enough
Zeke felt his jaw clench Hell, his entire body tightened with furious tension He’d been able to cover up ated when he first arrived home
The rumors his father had started had only one purpose in ood and ho had killed Zeke’s wife And it wasn’t anything Zeke had done
"My wife died because of an investigation," he agreed "But it wasn’t the investigation I was involved with in LA It had to do with so more personal"
He let her see his eyes and as reflected in them Shame welled inside him, and that sa?" She watched hi, what happened to Elaina had more to do with the reason ht to hold the full truth back fro; unfortunately, Zeke couldn’t tell her everything
"That was a long tio and far away, I’d hoped It followed us though when Mo she knew She was killed first When I began investigating things ation"
His jaw tightened with the memories "I had Shane to think of I backed off then When I returned here, I started checking into it again I’ve been tracking the saue The saroup Dayle and Nadine were a part of"
He heard her hard, indrawn breath and glanced back at her
"Dad was a part of the League," he told her then "And I think it goes without saying that this stays between the two of us"
Her violet eyes flashed with anger "You can be an asshole, Zeke," she accused hirinned at her veheured it would" He had known it would
"So you blame yourself for your mother and wife’s death?"
Violet eyes darkened Zeke could see the conflicting eed in her eyes and felt his heart clench There was no recriaze, only acceptance and trust
He shook his head at the sight of it
"Daly "I was the reason for it, Rogue I fucked up, it’s that si question of the wrong person They found out what I was doing and they struck back The head of the League is behind bars now, but that killer is still out there I don’t have proof yet, but I know in ut that he killed Joe and Jaime, and I suspect he killed Callie Walker
There are too many similarities to their murders and the murders thatto do hat happened last year as well? When the Mackays and Cranston arrested the homeland terrorists?" she said "I’d wondered I knew Joe and Jaime were close with the Mackays, but I wasn’t certain if they were supplying them with information or not Jonesy and I wondered about it, but they never said anything and I didn’t ask But I knew they had connections to some of the suspects
They worked for Dayle for a while, and they were friends with several of theelse," he warned her "Not until I know for certain who is who and talks where"