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“Get out!” Elias roars, repositioning his body so she’s completely protected from Jason’s view.
I wonder if he knows he’s doing it, or if his body is moving of its own accord the way mine has been.
“She has nowhere else to go, she’ll come crawling back to me once she realizes that,” Jason hisses before storming across the bar and slamming the doors open on his way out.
That’s where he’s wrong.
My angel has just found exactly where she belongs. With us.
CHAPTERFIVE
ELIAS
Barely-contained rage crackles through my veins, begging to be set free.
I thought I knew anger. I’ve felt it enough times, but all those moments were nothing compared to right now. The way that asshole spoke to his fiancée, to the woman who looks almost too at home in my best friend’s arms, it’s incomprehensible.
I watch as he leaves before allowing my eyes to brush over the crowd gathered around us. It’s not the first time our members have seen us throw someone out for their piss poor behavior, but it’s the first time Wyatt and I have been so…protective.
The instinct is as foreign as it is natural. I wasn’t like this with my ex-wife. Hell, it might just be the reason she left me. But with her, with this perfect stranger, I’d throw my body on the line to keep her safe.
The feeling is unexpected, and if I were a man who believed in fate, perhaps this is what it would look like. How else can I explain how right my best friend looks with her in his arms? We’ve shared a lot over the years, but never have we felt complete.
Not like right now.
“Let’s take you to my office and check on your ankle,” Wyatt murmurs, his voice soft so as not to spook her.
Her amber eyes are still wild and unsure from her altercation with her fiancé…ex-fiancé, if we have anything to say about it.
Wyatt’s entire being changed the moment he caught sight of her. He’s never been overly possessive. After all, he’s shared every woman he’s been with over the last decade, but by the look in his eyes, he needs to get her out of here, get her away from the prying eyes of members. His new possessive instincts are too much for him to handle.
“Nothing more to see here,” I bark and don’t miss the way Leighton flinches. I take a breath, trying to calm my erratic heartbeat as I turn to Brodie. “I want his membership revoked. If he ever steps foot in this club again, I want to be notified, and I want the police called immediately.”
“Yes, boss.”
My eyes find the naughty nurse who was caught red-handed playing the role of the other woman and a fresh wave of anger crashes down on me. I vaguely recognize the leggy blonde from around the club, but she hasn’t been around for long, and I have a feeling her time as a member is short-lived.
“Did you know he was engaged?” I rumble.
She gives me a small nod, her eyes flicking from me to Leighton and back again.
It takes every ounce of willpower not to step in front of Wyatt and protect her from the woman who has just played a part in tearing her entire life apart. “You can leave, too.”
I turn before she can respond, briefly meeting Brodie’s eyes to ensure he understands what he needs to do, but I don’t stick around for long. I have other things to take care of. A woman who has sparked the part of me that I thought would always lay dormant.
My heart.
CHAPTERSIX
LEIGHTON
The more time I spend in this stranger’s arms, the more it feels like home.
I know that sounds insane, and if you told me this was possible even a few hours ago, I would have laughed in your face. Because this kind of connection is the kind you read about in books and see in rom coms. They’re not real.
And yet the way I feel in his arms feels suspiciously like that.
The other man, the one who kicked Jason out of the club and looked like he was one breath away from tearing my fiancé apart, trails behind us, but I can feel him, too. The distance between us and the fact we’ve never so much as touched doesn’t seem to matter. He’s still set my body alight regardless.
