Free Talon's Heart by Jordan Silver

could care less what coach knows, he wants to bench me he can; as for the guys it's called loyalty, they know I would do the same for any one of them if some douche came sniffing around what's theirs."
     "Did you ever stop to think that you might be overreacting just a tad bit?"
    "No, and I'll tell you why, after what the fuck he did to her he had to know she was gutted, she ran away from that shit. The fact that he's coming all this way tells me that he still thinks he can control her or some shit. That he's just gonna show up and she'll tow the line which from what she's told me was pretty much how things were before. Now I'm all for being a man's man and going after your shit, but the difference is he’s no man he’s an asshole. I could never do what he did it’s just weak. Her family and his gave him a false sense of himself, so he thinks he's a big shot. She doesn't get to deal with him when he shows up, he doesn't get the chance to intimidate her, if he ever even looks at her again I'll blind the fuck."
     

"Dude you are so gone." Kevin started laughing his ass off but it wasn't funny, it was the truth. I was gone, and I didn't give a shit. She was mine; mine to love, to protect and to shield. I had already spoken to her parents so I know they're not the ones who sent him here, in fact they were rather surprised to hear he was coming. Her dad seemed to have the same idea I had, keep him away from her. I gave him my promise and I meant to keep it.
     

 
     
    My girl is not as strong as she thinks she is yet, she still has moments when that shit creeps up on her. She tries to hide it from me but I know her inside and out. She’s not all the way over what they did to her back on that farm but she will be, I’ll see to it. It was hard to remember that all that shit went down not too long ago, for some reason it felt like we'd known each other way longer than we had. Things had progressed so fast between us that some days it was hard to remember what I did before her. That’s because nothing else had ever mattered as much.
     I couldn’t imagine not being with her, not having her there. I’d never given her a chance to tell me no, to deny me. When I thought of it like that I thought maybe I should pull back, take it easy, and then I would say fuck that shit and carry on as I was. I wasn’t the only one who’d felt the pull that day on that football field. I’ve seen the same longing in her eyes that I know has been reflected in mine. It is what it is, it doesn't matter how long we knew each other, all that mattered was that she was mine for keeps, we belonged to each other, anyone who tried to come between that was fucked.
     

Chapter 11
     
    TALON
     
    


My phone beeped with a text from my boy Tyler Cunning. I read it and my body went cold.
    "Fuck."
    "What?" Kevin ran to keep up with me as I'd read the message and started moving.
    "That fuck's going to our place."
    "What, how?"
     

"Those bitches told him I'm sure, I can't think about that shit right now." I was too busy calling Skylar's cell. She answered on the second ring. "Baby, don't answer the door." My heart was knocking the shit out of my chest as I raced to get to her. Why had I been so sure that he wouldn’t find where we lived? It was true that not many knew where my condo was, it’s not like I broadcasted the shit. But in hindsight I should’ve known that somewhere along the line one or more of the females I’d tangled with would become curious. I’ll have to think about my slip in judgment later, right now all I could think of was getting to her before he did.
     "Talon what's going on?" She sounded freaked, no doubt from the panic in my voice.
    "Just don't answer the door babe, I think Stark's on his way there, I'm coming to you right now." My feet weren’t moving fast enough.
    "Talon you sound like you've been running a marathon, would you calm down Robert's harmless."
    "Don't tell me that shit babe, you moved across the