Bodyguard (Den of Thieves, #2) by A.M. Cosgrove

Author:A.M. Cosgrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allison Cosgrove
Published: 2016-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

“You’re kidding, right?” She laughed as they rolled up beside his Jeep.

“I’m sorry?”

“This is what you drive?” she asked, pointing to his vehicle.

“What is wrong with it?” He looked at his almost decade-old Jeep and wondered what the problem was. Sure, it needed a clearing after the rain the day before had left water spots and splashes of dried road dust.

“Just was not expecting you to drive something like this. That’s all.”

He looked at her a moment before speaking.

“What exactly were you expecting?”

“I don’t know. I guess I was just expecting a bigger, flashier vehicle.” She shrugged slightly, “You just seem like that sort of guy to me.”

“Flashier, huh?” Bo shook his head. What did she think he was? An ego-filled macho man?

He opened the door to the passenger side and helped her into the seat after some brief struggling.

“Just going to return this to the porters and I will be right back,” he told her, closing the door before walking back towards the hospital.

Getting back in the Jeep, he saw that Olivia was holding a picture in her hand. His picture. One of him and the rest of his unit. A candid shot of better days.

“What are you doing with that?” he snapped, snatching the picture back out of her hands.

“I was—” she started.

“Going through my stuff.” He felt anger burn through his mind. Just who did she think she was?

She sat there, staring blankly at him, her lips moving but no sounds came out.

“Look, I don’t know about where you come from, but where I come from, we don’t just start going through peoples things, especially the things that belong to people we don’t even know.” He waved the picture at her before tucking it back into the sun visor.

“I wasn’t trying to be rude,” she defended herself, finally finding her voice, “I was just curious.”

Bo looked at her. She looked exactly as he had felt just moments before.

“Curious? Then just ask me,” he spat, “But then you don’t want to be my friend, remember?”

She blinked but said nothing. Bo had to wonder if anyone had ever called her on her own bullshit in her life. Not that he cared, but someone had to tell her.

“I’m sorry, alright?” she apologized quietly, looking down at her hands in her lap.

“Just don’t touch my stuff without asking from now on, alright? Or anyone’s for that matter,” he added, putting the key in the ignition and starting the Jeep.

They pulled out of the hospital parking lot and out onto the road towards Olivia’s apartment. The air between them was thick with tension.

Bo didn’t understand the woman sitting next to him. One minute, she was joking and laughing. The next, she was biting his head off for doing the same. The very next, she was asking questions to try and get to know him.

“I am truly sorry,” she reiterated after a few minutes.

He didn’t respond and kept his eye forward and on the road.

“Look, I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have gone through your things.

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