Dirty Stolen Forever (Green County Book 2) by Nazarea Andrews

Author:Nazarea Andrews [Andrews, Nazarea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A&A Literary
Published: 2016-07-10T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20. Make Me Reckless

Colt

I have been taking Aiden home since the very first days of our relationship. It is, when I think back, the foundation of us. The first act—rescuing him that cold night all those years ago—had been followed almost immediately by taking him home.

Which, looking back, is odd. Because I hate people being in my space.

Not so much because I hate people—although, honestly, I don’t like most people. It’s that when I’m home, when I’m in the space that belongs to me and Remi, I don’t want to worry. I don’t want to consider who could hurt me, or who might want to hurt my brother.

When I’m home, I’m relaxed and loose in a way that I never am, elsewhere, not even at Shelly’s. So I’m careful about who I invite here. I’ve never liked it when Remi brings up girls, which he doesn’t do often, thank fuck. And I always made a point to take my hook ups to her place.

Wherever the fuck that place might be.

But then I found this blue- eyed bastard with fuck me hair and a voice made for dirty words, and an expression so lost I found myself in him.

Taking Aiden home has always been stupidly easy.

And it’s easy now, to sit in my truck with him stiff and straight in the passenger seat, blue gaze on the passing landscape, almost oblivious to me.

With anyone else, that kind of dismissal might hurt. But it’s not anyone else, and this is simply Aiden. The way he observes the world, and processes his emotions. It’s not a dismissal.

It’s comfortable and comforting, to know that he isn’t going to attempt that awkward as fuck small talk he tries when he’s uncomfortable and feeling pressured to be socially acceptable.

I remember the first time he did, when we were at a Shelly’s and he was talking to Kat while I was behind the bar, and she came to me with these wide eyes. “What the hell did you drag home this time, Rayburn?”

Remi, in his booth with Aiden, was laughing his ass off, and Aiden looked so confused and despondent that I wanted to scoop him up and kiss him senseless.

It was, I remember, the first time I wanted to kiss the guy I rescued who became my best friend.

Sure as fuck wasn’t the last.

“I thought you wanted to move out of that old house?” He asks, his voice that familiar rumble.

I slide a glance at him. “Thought about it. Never did. After Remi graduated, right before he started law school. It was nice, having a place we could both come back to.”

He doesn’t comment, and I swallow down the words that are threatening to rise up. Because that was insensitive as fuck.

“Sorry,” I mutter, and he shrugs, this stiff, awkward thing.

“We can’t keep apologizing, Colt,” he says, and his voice is very tired. “Not if we ever want to be anything.”

“Do you?” I ask, softly. A whispered question in the cab of the truck as

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