Honor by Susan Fanetti

Author:Susan Fanetti [Fanetti, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: biker, motorcycle club, outlaw, Suspense, redemption, trust
Publisher: Susan Fanetti
Published: 2018-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

After two full days of this, Jacinda had to face the truth: she was stalking him.

She lifted her camera again and peered through the zoom lens. Apollo stood on his driveway on this Saturday morning, in nothing but a pair of shiny red shorts that went nearly to his knees, washing his Charger. The muscles of his back and arms flexed and undulated, and the beads and rivulets of his sweat made him seem to glitter in the sun.

It was a sight straight out of an 80s music video. As sexy scenes with a car went, Tawny Kitaen had nothing on Apollo Armstrong.

For two full days, she’d blown off most of the work of her actual, paying cases and followed him around. He’d worked at the Sinclair station, hung out at the clubhouse, gone home. Even last night, when the clubhouse had gotten loud and crowded, he’d left before dark and ridden home. For those two days, at least, he’d been nothing but a mechanic with a boring life.

He’d also called her four times. She hadn’t picked any of those calls up, but she’d listened to his messages a few dozen times, and she’d heard in his tone that he wouldn’t be calling much more. Maybe not again.

She believed he hadn’t fucked that woman. She did. But seeing her hanging on him, and then watching him walk right by without a word, following that woman while she herself stood there feeling like she’d been emptied out with a melon baller—that was pain greater and deeper than she’d felt in years, and the sheer size of her hurt terrified her.

That was what she would be letting herself in for to have a relationship with him. Or with anyone, maybe. It wasn’t the violence of Apollo’s life that scared her, it was the violence of love itself. It was too much power to hand over to another person. He wouldn’t have to tie her down and offer her up to be gang raped to tear her apart.

So why had she been tailing him? Why was she parked here, around the corner from his house, shielded by a neighbor’s shrubbery, spying on him through a zoom lens? Sweltering in a car on a hot July day?

Good question.

Until that moment, standing outside the elevator, waiting to go up to the Detective Division and hand over some evidence her father had discovered on a case, the past two weeks had been wonderful. She’d fallen hard for Apollo, and until that moment, she’d felt safe with him.

The pivotal event had been that first night in her bed, when she’d blurted out that she loved him and he hadn’t gotten weird about it. She hadn’t loved him when she’d said it, she’d had premature ejaculation of the mouth was all, and he’d simply understood that to be the case.

She was pretty sure that was the moment she had fallen for him. When he’d made her safe even then.

And then the elevator, and she’d been gutted.

If she could tell herself that she’d overreacted, that might have helped.

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