Free Talon's Heart by Jordan Silver Page A

fucking country to get away from that asshole, so don't tell me he's harmless. Look just please do what I say, I'm almost there okay sweetheart."
    "Okay, but honey...I moved across the country to meet my destiny, remember that okay." Her voice went all soft and dreamy cutting through the haze that had been forming in my mind.
     

Shit, I stopped in my tracks, she was going to make me soft if she kept talking like that and I needed to be tough right now. Is there anything more perfect than your woman telling you that you’re the answer? I closed my eyes as I let the sweet rush through me; it wasn’t often that she overcame her shyness enough to say these things to me. Though hearing it right now while I’m in killer mode might not be the best timing. Fuck that, that shit went straight to the heart of me, that's why she’s mine, only she could make me feel what I’m feeling right now, only she ever will. I don't know why I'd found her at this point in time, or what life held in store for us, but I was absolutely sure that we would face it together. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
    "Babe, seriously, that was…wow, I don't even know what to say."
    “You don’t have to say anything. I love you.”
    “Fuck baby.” I started moving again my heart beating in a whole new way this time. She was going to turn me into a sap. “I love you more baby.” Why do women do this shit to us men? How am I supposed to rip a motherfucker’s head off if she puts dreams of romance and happily ever after in my damn head at a time like this?
    "So you'll come home and forget all this nonsense?" Aha that should do the trick.
     "Not a chance, one thing has nothing to do with the other. The man is basically calling me out, showing up on my turf, coming after what's mine, nah, I gotta deal with this shit once and for all."
    "Coming after what's yours, what am I a piece of meat?" There was no real heat in her voice so I knew she wasn't really mad. My baby has her soft side and her sweet side, then there's this other side, I call it the pain in the ass side. That's when she doesn't listen for shit, digs her heels in and set up for mutiny. Yeah I learned all this about her in just a few weeks.
     Like I know that the sweet, quirky, free spirited Skylar is the real Skylar and the cautious almost weary Skylar is what emerged after what this fucker had done to her. And that thinking put me back into the right frame of mind completely, which was a good thing because I was turning the corner when I saw the rental pull up.
"I love you babe gotta go." I sped up, hanging up on her after sending her a kiss.
     

 
     
     

Good, my posse had done their jobs, he hadn't beaten me here. One of the hangers on must've alerted the guys to this new development. All along I thought he was going to try the dorms first. This move, him coming to our place, convinced me that he was getting help from someone here, how else would he know where we lived? I'll deal with those two idiots later right now I had to deal with this cheating asshole. The guy had to be a real heel to cheat on someone like Skylar, fucking weak. His lost, my absolute gain.
     

He got out of the car and was headed to our condo, I sped up my step and was in time to body check him on the walkway. "What the fuck?" He puffed up like he was a badass, yeah okay dipshit.
    "Private property douche, get going."
    "I'm here to visit my girl so whoever you are, you need to step."
    I looked him up and down, stocky, darkish, not bad looking for a douche who was about to die if he didn't get the fuck out of my face.
     "You don't have a girl here, this is my place, you need to get the fuck out of here now." If I’d caught him at the dorms it would be a different story, I would’ve handed him his ass. But this was too fucking close for comfort
the instinct to keep him as far away from her as possible kicked in and all I wanted was for him to be gone
I’ll have to kick his ass another