Total pages in book: 126
Estimated words: 122206 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 611(@200wpm)___ 489(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 122206 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 611(@200wpm)___ 489(@250wpm)___ 407(@300wpm)
I’d admit, even after years of knowing him, I still caught myself staring at him longer than what was deemed polite every so often, but it was only because he had so many nasty scars that sometimes I wondered how he survived receiving them. I’d once asked Aideen how he had received them, and she told me it was in his past, and since then, I had never mentioned it again.
It was clearly a sticky subject.
Intimidating looks aside, he was a good man. He made my sister happier than I had ever seen her, and he was a hell of a father to my nephews, Jax and Locke. I got on well with him, but that wasn’t always the case. When I first met the Slater brothers, I thought they were a bunch of cocky sons of bitches because they carried on like they were God’s gift to women. I still thought that, but past fighting between us aside, I got on well with all of them, bar one.
Damien Slater.
I couldn’t stand the wank stain.
A little bit of me hated him because he was going out with Alannah Ryan. I had a four-month fling with her a while back. It was the longest I had ever spent fucking one woman on the regular. It was never anything that serious—we were both up front that it was just casual sex—but in a way, I caught a few feelings as it was the only not-really-a-relationship kind of relationship that I had ever had.
During our time together, she was the only woman I fucked, which wasn’t like me. I’d be the first to admit that I was a bit, or a lot, of a slut. My only interest in women was sex, but Alannah was different. I liked her, and I often thought I would have eventually tried to have a real relationship with her if she permitted it, but it didn’t get that far.
Damien was the man she was always meant to be with, but because I had sex with her, it obviously meant Damien hated my guts when he found out. We were matched when we fought the day he confronted me about it at work six or so months ago. We beat the fucking shite out of one another in the garage hangar, and it quickly ended my sexcapades with Alannah because nothing was worth dealing with a pissed-off Slater brother.
Not even a sweet beauty like her could save me from that headache.
“Date!”
I jumped. Again.
“What?”
“Bro, you completely spaced out.” Kane’s lips twitched. “Am I that boring to talk to?”
“Yeah.” I cocked my head to the side. “Ye should work on that.”
“You’re a huge dick.”
“No. I have a huge dick. Learn the difference.”
“If you really want to know what a huge cock looks like, just ask your sister. She deals with mine every single ni—” Kane cut himself off as he scrambled away from me, his laughter low and rumbling, when I grabbed a wrenched from the nearest tool trolley. “Shit. You were really gonna hit me with that, weren’t you?”
I shrugged. “Still thinkin’ ’bout doin’ it, to be honest.”
Kane held both of his hands up in surrender. “I’m bowing out. It’s been over a year since I’ve been in a fight, and I’m not ruining that streak now.”
“Ye rotten liar,” I scowled. “Ye punched me in the face a few months ago.”
Kane lowered his arms. “I gave you a little love tap.”
A little love tap, my bollocks. I practically saw stars when he hit me.
“Ye lyin’ sack of shite. Ye full force clocked me in the jaw.”
“You were beating on my baby brother right in front of me. What was I supposed to do?”
I rolled my eyes. “Let him square away his own shite, maybe?”
Kane scratched his neck. “It’s hard when it comes to Damien,” he said. “We’re all very protective of him, but we’re learning boundaries now.”
I snapped my fingers. “That’s exactly why I fought him the very first night we met at the club. Ryder hit JJ, and boom, brothers to the rescue.”
That was my first introduction to the Slater brothers. Years ago, in a club called Darkness, we got into a fight with them. It was before they all settled down, got married, and started having babies. It was still a sore topic because we rarely agreed on why the fight started. FYI, it was because of a fucking Slater.
Kane rubbed his jaw. “I can still feel the solid Harley landed on me that night.”
“It was brutal. JJ got the better of Ryder, you had one up on Harley, I flattened Damien, Nico downed me, and Gavin got the shite kicked out of him by Alec. It’s why none of us would back down. Aideen says our egos were too big to allow it.”
“I’m so glad I didn’t know her then.” Kane shivered with fear. “She’d have whooped my ass up and down the country after what Ry caused.”