Siren in Waiting by Lexi Blake

Author:Lexi Blake [Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Lexi Blake, Sophie Oak, contemporary romance, cowboys, Texas Sirens
Publisher: DLZ Entertainment LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Bo felt like the world had opened up and threatened to swallow him whole. How could she think he would laugh at her? How could she even think that he would become like everyone else?

Walk away. That was the only thing to do. He should have known that there was no way she would stay. Trev McNamara moving back into town just as Bo got his shit together was proof positive that he wasn’t supposed to be with anyone at all. People left.

People leave you because you aren’t worth anything. You’re the reason Aidan left home. You’re poison, boy.

His father’s voice resounded through his head. It was always there somewhere deep inside him. It whispered to him that he wasn’t good enough. It was screaming now.

He’d lost Mouse. And he couldn’t blame anyone but himself.

He turned to go, but instinct made him look back at the house one last time. Maybe there was something he could do for her. Not because it would get her back, but because he did owe her. He owed her for all those years when he kept her at arm’s length even as she opened her soul to him.

The door banged open, and he heard something horrible.

There was no way to mistake the sound.

Gunshot.

He took those rickety steps two at time. He hit that crappy door at a full run, throwing his body into the house. He had to sidestep the now ruined box of the coffeemaker Mouse had bought. He kicked it to the side.

“Mouse!” He screamed her name, his heart pounding in his chest. Terror absolutely threatened to overwhelm him as he looked at the skinny man in the center of the room with the revolver pointed at the stairs.

He could smell the acrid scent of discharge and hear the scrambled hurry as Mouse tried running up the stairs. He got a flash of a slender man in a T-shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap as he raised the gun again toward the fleeing woman. The asshole wouldn’t miss this time. Bo could see it. In that one point two seconds he had to make his decision, he could see that the bullet would tear through his Mouse and she would fall, and he realized that it didn’t matter if she slept every night for the rest of her life in Trev McNamara’s arms. He loved her. She was half of his heart, and she could stop him from acting on it—but not from saving her.

He did the only thing he could. He rushed at the asshole with the gun before he could fire again.

There was a shout and a terrible stinging sensation in his right bicep, but Bo remembered everything he knew about taking down a man.

Play it smart, Bo. Rush from your legs up. Send the power from the bottoms of your feet through your shoulder. Take him out at the waist. Breathe and hit him hard.

He hunched down and planted his shoulder squarely in the other man’s abdomen. There was a whooshing sound as the man hit the floor, the air obviously leaving his body.

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