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“Don’t push ain, but this time she held a hand up to ward him off “Sweetheart…” he started
“No,” she whispered because that beach ball in her throat wouldn’t allow anything louder Shit, she was going to cry Ugly cry “Please,” she said as the first tear fell She pressed one hand against her sto out “Please just let o”
Jig didn’t respond for a long moment, then he lifted his hands in surrender “Okay, sweetheart But this isn’t over Get through today, and we’ll talk”
She nodded It was the fastest way to get hinity still intact
As she watched hi down her face, Izzy kneas already too late She’d broken her most strict, firmest rule
She’d fallen in love with him
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
SIX HOURS LATER, Jig sat alone at the bar in the clubhouse, well into a bottle of Scotch Hadn’t done a daut
Rocket strode through the door alone, and Jig’s shoulders sagged Izzy hadn’t even come to talk to him That pretty much put the last nail in his coffin, didn’t it? “She okay?” he asked as Rocket wandered up and swiped the bottle
After a long drink, Rocket wiped his mouth with the back of his fist and said “No She’s pretty daht now Not sure ent down between you two behind the van, but she’s been puffy-eyed and silent all afternoon This business with the girls has her spiraling, too”
“Can you blame her?”
“No” He took another drink “Didn’t say I did Just giving you the facts You gonna go see her?”
Jig considered that Would he go see her? “Not today She wouldn’t want anyone to see her freak out Especially notby later Check on her”
Rocket nodded and stared into the e appreciated that He didn’t need one of his brothers telling him how to handle the woman he loved
That’s right
Fucking loved
As he’d brooded and drank for the past few hours, he realized the sick feeling he’d had since walking away froeous woman had blown past all his defenses, and he was in love with her
He’d bucked against the notion for sosoain Convinced no woman deserved a man with a violent history, who freely ad inside hi as he’d anticipated, but for entirely different reasons Izzy wasn’t the type of woht around and stand by his side no hter, on some level, she even understood his need for violence