Free Rogue Stallion (Chrome Horsemen MC Book 2) by Carmen Faye Page A

after a few moments,” Jim sold you short. That's fucking brilliant."
     
    "Thanks," Brain said and calmly took a sip of his coffee while Cole got back on the phone and told Mark and James the plan, and their parts in it.
     
    When that was done, they paid the check, but were set to wait for twenty more minutes.
    "Cole? What was I wearing for our first ride together?" she asked, unable to control her curiosity.
     
    Cole recited her outfit without hesitation and from what she remembered, which she felt was fairly accurate since she spent a lot of time picking out her clothing, it was near perfect. In fact, she felt he was dead on. "What color were the eyes of the first man you saw on the boat that day?" she pressed.
     
    "Green," he said, "You going someplace with this?"
     
    But Nicole noticed that Brian was suddenly very interested, as well. How he might have picked up on where she was going with this, she didn't know. Fucking brain trust in this group of motor junkies. "That car across the street, did you see it at the hotel?" she asked.
     
    "Yeah, just where Brian said it was, but I didn't notice it here until he pointed it out," Cole explained.
     
    "What's the license number?" she pushed.
     
    Cole, again, told her without a second of hesitation. There was no brain searching. It was just there, in his mind, like magic.
     
    "Wow," Brian said, not bothering to hide his amazement and sat back looking at Cole, "Eidetic memory?"
     
    "What's that?" Cole asked, looking from Brian to her and then back again.
     
    Nicole walked him through what she knew about eidetic memory, admitting that the subject, at the time she came across it during her research, didn't hold much interest for her, so her understanding was limited. "No one has ever brought that up to you?" she asked him with slight wonder.
     
    Cole shrugged, "I get the visual part. I use that a lot and certainly during every fight I'm in." Then Cole ran a play by play with the boat ambush he walked into, even moving pieces like the salt and pepper and sugar packages around as he explained how he knew where the attackers were behind the curtain, or at least the couple of places physics would allow them to be and used that to aim.
     
    "Again, wow," Brian said with a little more wonder in his voice. "I've heard about it, too, but listening to how you use it puts chills in my spine knowing I was so close to going up against it."
     
    Cole checked his watch, "It's time. We can talk about my brain after we take care of this little chore."
     
    "No we won't," Nicole told him, "You're going to avoid the subject like a plague." She smiled teasingly while she rose from her chair and shrugged into her jacket, "aren't you?"
     
    Cole grimaced at her.
     
    "I don't know what impresses me more, your memory or how well she knows you," Brian laughed. "You two have quite a connection with each other."
     
    Cole looked at him, "Buddy, you have no idea."
     
     

 
    CHAPTER FOURTEEN
     
    The only thing Cole didn't like about this plan was that Nicole would be riding behind him. But, there was no way not to tip their hand if she didn't get back on the bike. He noticed a tremble in her hand as she strapped on her helmet. He wanted to say it was going to be fine, but that felt kind of silly coming from the man who was about to ride her into battle. Then he noticed the expression in her eyes. They were alight with the fierceness of a small Valkyrie whose wrath was barely contained by her glowing blue irises. "Ready?" he asked.
     
    "Ready ten minutes ago," she told him with a smile. "Let's get them."
     
    That was probably the moment, the moment he fell in love with her. He wasn't sure now, though, if he hadn't fallen in love with her before this and just now realized the depth of his feelings for her. It felt like he had always loved her and was just now catching up. If it wasn't the moment, it should have been, he decided and got on his bike.
     
    He started the engine up and came off