The Wolf on the Hill by Jorja Lovett

Author:Jorja Lovett [Lovett, Jorja]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Caleb’s calmness bothered Mia, as if having people smash up his shit was an everyday occurrence for him. Maybe it was. What do I really know about him? She hadn’t bothered to find out anything about him beyond his considerable talents in the bedroom. For all she knew, he could be involved in all manner of dodgy dealings with the sort of people who liked to express themselves through the medium of a sledgehammer.

A shudder ripped through her at the thought of Caleb at the mercy of this hammer-wielding maniac. Forgetting her earlier plea for independence, Mia’s first instinct about the whole situation was to run to her big brother for help. “You need to report this to the police.”

Caleb’s emphatic “No” did nothing to ease her fears or suspicions.

“Why on earth not?”

He lifted the upturned tin of paint from the floor and began to mop up the spillage with a rag, making no attempt to preserve the scene. “Look, I don’t want any trouble. Even if someone is literally intent on bringing it to my door. Right now, that shitty offer I got for the place doesn’t seem so bad. I could add a ‘sold as seen’ clause and get the fuck out of here.”

He dumped the paint-sodden rag in the bin with excessive force. Perhaps Mr Cool wasn’t entirely as laid-back as she’d first thought. But she didn’t want him to wave the white flag and run away. If he did, he might never come back.

“We should go see Rory.” He could talk some sense into Caleb. Mia had her own selfish reasons for not wanting Caleb to leave, but her brother wouldn’t let the sheer injustice of the situation pass without a fight either.

“Can we leave your fucking brother out of this just for once?” Caleb punched the door, adding to the structural woes of the property, before he stomped off.

“Hey!” Mia took off after him, pissed off by the completely unnecessary act. She grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around with a surprising show of strength. “Take it out on the people who deserve it.”

Under her palm, the coiled muscles slackened. “Sorry. When I think of all the trouble he went to, getting everyone here to patch the place up… I don’t want to go cap in hand again. I’ll sort this.”

“There’s no need to be so proud. Or stubborn.” She waited for him to throw that particular character trait back in her face, but he was too caught up in playing the martyr to notice.

“Maybe I’m sick of Super Rory swooping in to save the day and making me feel like the village idiot.” Just when she’d thought they were making progress, Caleb’s defences had shot up again, topped with some barbed wire to make sure no one got close.

“You are a fucking idiot!” That did it. Caleb stopped slouching and snapped upright. Mia gulped, but she didn’t want another whiny Robbie clone. Bring back my kick-ass bad boy.

“You need to find out who’s doing this and put a stop to it.

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