Blood Bound (Blackhawk Security Book 2) by Samantha A. Cole

Author:Samantha A. Cole [Cole, Samantha A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Mm-hmm.” Rylie didn’t care what Chase talked about as long as he said something, so she could feel the words rumble from his chest against her back, and kept massaging her aching muscles. She almost purred when he found a particularly tense spot.

“Well, my two sisters, Ava and Sarah, and I were raised in St. Pete’s. They both moved after college. Ava, who was born fourteen months after me, owns a pet supply store and bakery, in York, Pennsylvania—yes, she bakes treats for dogs—and is involved with a pit bull rescue. She’s married to Danny Cox, an Air Marshal, and they have two daughters and one son. Sarah is the baby of the family—five years younger than me. She’s divorced with two boys and is a fragrance chemist in Atlanta.”

“A fragrance chemist? Does that mean she makes the scents for perfumes?”

“Yup, and also for shampoo, body wash, lotions, and other stuff. Don’t ask me how she got interested in that, but she loves her job, and it pays really well. Which is great because her ex is an ass about getting his child support to her on time. One of these days, I may have to ignore a direct order from Sarah and go beat the shit out of him.”

She was surprised he hadn’t already. Chase seemed to be a fierce protector of his family and friends, especially the females.

“Anyway, my mom, Janet, lives in Boca Raton now, where she hangs out with her bridge club four days a week and plays golf the other three, unless she’s off visiting family or friends. She’s seventy-two, looks twenty years younger, and has been a catalogue model for about ten or twelve years for stores like Sears and Dillard’s and a few others.”

“Wow, really?”

“Uh-huh. Mom’s a knockout, as my dad used to say.”

The sadness in his voice caught her attention. “He’s gone?”

His hands slid to where her shoulders met her upper arms as he continued to search for knots. “Yeah—six years ago after a second battle with cancer. He fought the good fight, but it just wasn’t enough. Dad was the greatest man I ever knew. Would give you the shirt off his back if you needed it, and never did anything but support his family in whatever they wanted to do. At my high school graduation and then, again, at my Marine Corps boot camp graduation, he was yelling louder than any other parent there. Whenever he introduced me and my two younger sisters to anyone, you could always hear the pride in his voice. I don’t think I’d be the man I am today if I’d had anyone other than him as my dad.”

Chase’s father wasn’t the only one who talked about his family with pride in his voice. Rylie could feel the love and admiration he had for the man who’d raised him in every word he spoke. “What did he do for a living?”

“He worked for the sanitation department for about forty years after a brief stint in the Army.

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