Blacklisted by Jay Crownover

Author:Jay Crownover
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2020-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Shot

To what do I owe the pleasure, gentlemen?”

I asked the question as I leaned against my bike, which was parked on the side of a remote back road. I didn’t take my sunglasses off, as both the sheriff and the Texas Ranger made their way toward me.

Case and Hill were dressed casually in jeans, boots, and plain T-shirts. They both wore cowboy hats; Case’s was black, Hill’s a light gray. It was almost as if their choice in headwear was meant to indicate which was playing good cop and which one was playing bad. Neither had his badge showing, but both wore their service weapons in plain sight, reminding me that, while Case might have called this clandestine meeting, they weren’t my friends nor were to be taken lightly.

Hill and Case moved the same, both full of purpose and authority. They held themselves the same, both alert and aware. They reminded me a lot of my brothers and the guys I’d served with. It made sense, since both had been in the military before coming back to Texas and taking up careers in law enforcement. In a different world, the three of us probably would’ve gotten along just fine. At our core, we had a lot in common, but I wasn’t one to walk the straight and narrow. Also, I’d dated Case’s little sister, who just happened to be the love of Hill’s life, so any bonds of brotherhood between us were bound to be unlikely.

Hill pushed the brim of his hat up and gave me a narrow-eyed look. “Did you come out here alone?”

I shrugged and waved a gloved hand around the barren and deserted landscape. “You see anyone else hanging around, Ranger?”

“Doesn’t seem like a smart move. It’s empty and isolated. Anything could happen out here.” Hill’s drawl was slow and smooth, making the threat sound less serious than I knew it was.

I rolled my eyes, even though they were covered, and pushed off the bike. I crossed my arms over my chest and asked, “Really, why did you ask me to meet you out here? I’m busy and have shit to do.”

And I didn’t like being so far away from Presley. Top threw a fit when I asked him to keep an eye on her while I rode out to meet the boys in blue. He still hadn’t wrapped his head around the lengths I was willing to go to for her, and he made it pretty obvious he wasn’t totally behind me starting something with her. For Top, the club came first, foremost, and always, much as it had with my father. It was hard for men wired that way to grasp how caring about someone could suddenly take precedence over the brotherhood. In their mind, love, or any faint traces of it, equaled a kind of betrayal.

“We want to talk to you about Presley. We know you’ve been spending time with her, hanging around her, and keeping an eye on her.” Case didn’t lift his hat the way Hill did, so I couldn’t tell if he was looking at me.

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