Frost Security: The Complete 5 Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

Author:Glenna Sinclair [Sinclair, Glenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-five – Jake

I pushed Elise to the pickup. “I’ll handle this.”

“What the hell, Jake?” she asked to my back as I headed right for Spike, my hand at a conspicuous distance from my gun. Bat or no bat, I was pretty sure I could handle him. But, still, I didn’t want to fight him.

Spike turned his head and spat as I got within muttering distance. “Thought you seemed shifty when you walked in here, Jake. Seemed weird when she said you were her private detective, but didn’t mention the name of the place you worked for.”

I knew it was a bad move for Elise to mention the name Frost Security or to hand over our business card, but I couldn’t say anything inside Crossroads without making them suspicious. I came to stop about ten feet from him, close enough we could speak our minds and not be overheard by Elise, but far enough that neither of us would be able to get a jump on the other.

“She didn’t know,” I said, squaring my shoulders, kept my eyes trained right on him. If he took a swing with that slugger, I wanted to see it coming.

“I was up on that fucking mountain. That night.”

“From the reaction on your face when you heard who I worked for, I figured as much.”

“She know?”

Gravel crunched behind me, and I could tell it was the sound of Elise’s footsteps as she began to approach us. “Jake? What’s wrong?”

I put a hand out towards her. “This is between me and him, Elise. Nothing to do with you or your sister.”

Gravel and snow crunched beneath boots as she slowly, carefully walked away.

He sneered. “Got the hots for her, don’t you?”

I shrugged. “Maybe. Doesn’t mean I won’t kick your ass up and down this parking lot in front of her, though.”

“Why don’t you tell her, then? Huh? Ain’t you worried she’s gonna find a tail first time she sees you without your jeans?”

“No reason for her to know, that’s all,” I said with a shake of my head. “Besides, it doesn’t exactly work that way.”

“What the hell are you fucking freaks, anyways? Government experiments? Said you served. Was that what it was? Them mixing you up in a blender with wolf blood or some shit?”

“Nope. We’ve been around long as humans. More or less, still are human.”

“Wolf-men? Like that Michael J. Fox movie?”

“Something like that, I guess. And sorry to disappoint, but I play soccer, not basketball.”

He smirked. “Ain’t that sweet?”

“Look. I appreciate your help. And, clearly, you want to do some ass-kicking, but you don’t want the guys inside to know why you’re doing it.”

“Think T-Bone or those guys would believe me if I told ‘em?”

I shook my head. “Nope. You don’t either. Otherwise, you would’ve told them.”

“Course I ain’t told ‘em. They’d think I started to hit the product. None of us up there have said anything.”

“That’s good,” I said evenly. “It’ll keep you out of the county mental ward.”

“I even looked for y’all on the internet.

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