Another con. Sort of. I mean, all that stuff I was doing for him and I was certainly glad to know, after all this time, he noticed but I wasn’t going to tell him that.
And it was nice he liked my laugh.
Moving on.
“And this has to do with Tack…?” I prompted.
“Are you not seein’ the pattern here?”
“Uh… no.”
“Were you not in your yard yesterday with Lawson, Tack and me?”
Uh-oh.
“I was there,” I snapped.
“And were not in your livin’ room when your boy Troy showed?”
Hmm. I was seeing his point.
“That doesn’t count, I’ve known Troy –”
Hawk cut me off. “Counts for him.”
He was probably right.
Hawk continued. “Counts for me.”
I crossed my arms on my chest. “Can you get to the point?”
“The point is, you’re the kind of woman whose furnace breaks down, she calls you, you haul your ass over to her house to fix it, even if you’re in the middle of a game.”
Oh shit. That had happened. It was right in the middle of a Broncos game when I called Troy.
God, I hated it that Hawk knew everything about me.
Another con!
“And you’re also the kind of woman who a man sees curled in a protective ball, he’s moved to do what he can to make certain that doesn’t happen again.”
I felt my eyes get squinty. “Is that why you’re here?”
He shook his head. “I’m here ‘cause when you come, you come hard, you don’t hold back but you do hold on and you do it tight. I’m here because when you call me baby in this bed, I feel it in my dick. And I’m here because you don’t hesitate throwing attitude when every other woman I know doesn’t have the guts to say boo to me. Seein’ you scared and wantin’ to do something about it was just an extra reason that made me want to be here.”
I had no response to that so I didn’t make one.
Instead, I said, “And Tack?”
“The attitude, babe, you threw a hissy fit in Ride and not a lotta women surrounded by members of the Chaos MC would rant about her sister and Barbies and a f**kin’ TV show.”
My eyes got squintier. “How do you know this shit?”
“I got eyes on Ride, Sweet Pea, I watched the whole show and you leak that to Tack I will not be happy.”
This surprised me. “You have eyes on Ride?”
“Yeah.”