Vincent's Bulletproof Secret: A Second Chance Single Mom Romance (Lucky Luca Ranch Book 5) by Jean Marie

Author:Jean Marie [Marie, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Vincent

I thought I’d known anger in my life.

I’d come home limping with bloodied knuckles more times than I could count after someone decided to make a wise crack at one of my siblings, or when a pervert decided to try shit with one of our female patrons at the studio.

But this?

Oh, I had a new definition for the word.

Hell’s fire blazed through me when I lunged up from Clarice’s beaten and bloodied form to face the bathroom. I should have just shot him when he’d threatened to take her kids, damn the consequences. It would have saved us trouble.

But I hadn’t and now, it was time to face the demon behind it all.

Scott’s body was crouched down, the broken door now on the ground as his arm disappeared under the sink. He growled under his breath, almost drowned out by the scared shrieks coming from inside the cabinet.

“Get out here, you little brats! I’m not afraid to hurt you two—”

Over my dead body.

I marched forward, wrapping my fingers into the hair at the base of his neck and ripping him back. He howled, the sound sending vicious satisfaction through me as I put myself firmly between him and the kids.

I don’t know why he was so set on them, and I didn’t care. He wouldn’t lay a finger on them. If I’d had it my way, he wouldn’t have touched Clarice either.

Guilt threatened to bubble up, but I shoved it down.

I’d gotten here as quickly as I could. Wallowing over being late wouldn’t help anyone. Least of all Clarice. She didn’t need me sniveling while collapsing in on myself. She needed me to beat the blood out of her assailant.

I could do that.

Distantly, I heard the kids cheer, my name bursting from them as if they were my personal cheerleaders, but when they moved to get out of the cabinet, I closed the doors and barked.

“Stay in there and don’t move. I won’t let him get to you, but you need to stay.”

I couldn’t risk them coming out and getting hurt in the crossfire.

They both let out whimpers of agreement, the doors not moving again as I swung around to face Scott. The fight was on.

All my life, I’d been taught to fight clean. In competitions, you’d be thrown out for anything else, and my father had detested the cheap tactics of street fighting, but looking at Scott, seeing the face of the man who’d beaten Clarice bloody.

Red painted my vision, and all the teachings that’d been beaten into me drained out.

He wanted a fight? I’d give him one he’d never forget. See how hard he could hit a woman with his fist bent backward.

My hand locked around his wrist when he tried to spring forward at me. The bathroom didn’t give me much room to work, but I’d make do. Throwing him forward, I wrenched his wrist backward, smirking when the familiar CRACK sounded.

His wail hit next, cutting through the air like a whip as he staggered back. The EMTs showed up the same time I did, but wouldn’t enter until the cops secured the property.

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