Revealed to Him by Frederick Jen

Author:Frederick, Jen [Frederick, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781503947559
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-11-02T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

JAKE

“So you’re fucking my cousin?” drawls Oliver Graham as I close Natalie’s door behind me.

Fatigue and a little pain makes me irritable. “You spend a lot of time lurking outside your cousin’s door?”

He advances in a way I’m sure is supposed to be menacing. No doubt he’s used to intimidating people, but I served in the army for eight years, four of them as a Ranger. I’ve seen shit and done shit that’d give him nightmares.

“How’s the investigation going? You find out who sent that note yet?”

His words taunt—he knows I don’t have anything to report, because if I did, he’d have already had the information. I take a moment so I don’t say something I regret. This is Natalie’s beloved cousin.

“We’re working on it,” I reply with studious calm.

He stops a foot away. “You’ve found time to seduce my cousin but haven’t made any progress on finding the shitstain who is tormenting her.”

His accusations sting, in part because they’re true. We haven’t made much progress on finding the guy behind the note or the clown. Neither the ex nor Dr. Terrance appear to be behind the threats either, although we keep watching both.

“We’re working on it,” I repeat. “I’m tired and I’m going home. I’ll call you when we find out something worth reporting.”

I attempt to move around him, but he’s having none of it. I eye his well over six-feet-five-inch frame. He’s got a couple inches on me but not much more than that. I’m confident that I’d take him in a fight, not because I’m stronger than him but because I’ve been trained to fight to kill. But it’d be close, real close.

“You don’t want to do this,” I say softly. The last thing I want to do is get in a brawl with Natalie’s cousin outside her apartment at two in the fucking morning.

“Do what? Wipe the floor with your weak ass?”

I try to gather my calm. I have been accused, frequently, of being overprotective of my two sisters. Graham has every reason to be on edge given what’s going on in Natalie’s life.

“Fight out here and we’ll wake Natalie up,” I caution.

“Don’t fuck with her,” he says fiercely, but his voice is lowered. He doesn’t want to disturb her any more than I do. “She’s delicate. She doesn’t need someone to sweet-talk his way into her panties and then waltz away. I don’t even know how you got her to open the fucking door for you, but I’m telling you now to stay away.”

“You’re right and you’re wrong.” I gesture toward her door. “Yes, she’s got some issues, but she’s not all that delicate.” The sting of her nails in my back is evidence of that, I think. “As for how I got her to open the door, she asked me to come in.”

“To fuck?” he sneers in disbelief. I can see by the veins in his neck and the set of his jaw that he’d like to haul off and hit me.

I run a hand through my hair.

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