Ty rounded the railing and tried to shut him out.
Julius kept at him.
“Never seen a woman break like that.”
Fuck, the man needed to shut the f**k up.
His foot hit the first stair.
“Shattered,” Julius called after him.
Walker kept moving.
He hit his room and stopped dead.
Right in the middle of the bed was fifty thousand dollars in cash and four jewelry boxes.
Four.
She’d even left her wedding rings.
He stared at them then he closed his eyes tight and dropped his head.
Then he opened his eyes, moved to the safe in the closet, opened it and went back to the bed. He stowed the shit, closed the safe and kicked himself that he didn’t come upstairs with the f**king bourbon.
* * * * *
Two days later…
“Yo, Ty!” Wood called him, he looked from the belly of the car he was working on and across the garage to Wood who was turned, looking out a bay.
Walker’s eyes moved that way and then he moved out from under the car when he saw Tate stalking his way.
Fuck.
Tate stopped five feet away.
“Lexie needs a couple of hours to get the rest of her shit outta your house. For reasons I’m guessin’ you get, she does not want to ask you herself and she does not want you there,” he stated.
“Tell her to name the time and I’m gone,” Walker replied instantly.
Tate stared at him like Julius stared at him for an entire day any time he saw him until he’d connected with his man and went back to California – like he thought Walker was one serious dumb f**k.
Then Tate jerked up his chin and started to go.
“Jackson,” Walker called and Tate stopped. “Tell her the safe will be open. She’ll know why. And tell her she’s plain stupid she doesn’t take what’s hers.”
“Great, I’ll continue this junior high bullshit and tell her that, Ty. You got anything else I should whisper to her at recess?” Tate asked, pissed as all hell, not at his errand, not doing this for Lexie but because he was pissed at Walker. And he was not hiding it.
“Nope,” Walker answered.
“Terrific,” Tate muttered, turned and stalked away.
Walker moved back under the car.
* * * * *
Three days later…