Chapter 26

TALON

 

That damn dog is a pain in the ass, not only is he eating me into the poor house the little shit has totally confiscated my woman. I fixed his ass last night though; that's right I locked him out of our room and no matter how much he moaned and carried on I didn't give in. Skye bitched at me until I got my mouth on the goods then she piped down too.

"What are you giving him now?"

"You do know its ridiculous to be jealous of a dog right?" I could see she was trying her best not to laugh at me.

"I'm not jealous of the mutt, I just asked a question."

I sniffed her neck and wrapped my arms around her waist for my morning breakfast snuggle. The damn dog started making noises.

"You want to become a handbag you keep that shit up." I pointed at him and he settled his ass down again. I guess I should be happy that he was already becoming protective of her, as long as he remembered who was the alpha around here we should get along just fine.

"Okay so tell me, what's going on."

"What?" How the hell did she learn to look at me like mom? You know the look, the one that if they held it for one minute more you'd be spilling state secrets. I'd seen mom put the whammy on dad more than once. I ducked my head into the fridge, which was fast becoming my safeguard these days.

"Oh no you don't mister, get out of there and tell me what's going on with you."

Okay Avery, man the fuck up you knew this day was gonna come sooner or later, looks like its now.

"No."

Yep, that threw her for a loop alright, the first time I'd told her no. I went about my business like she wasn't looking all flustered and out of sorts.

"Talon."

"What did I say babe? leave it alone."

I wasn't trying to hurt her feelings but we both knew I was gonna do what I had to do. There was no point in discussing shit with her because I already knew what she was gonna say so what was the point?

"You can't just leave it like that."

"Babe we got married I didn't become a eunuch. What made you think I was gonna become that guy just because we got married? Listen couple things you can bank on; one, I'm never gonna cheat on you, I'm always gonna take care of you, I'm always gonna love you, with that said, there's nothing for you to worry about. Don't do that, why are you doing that?"

I pointed my finger at her because she looked like she was about to burst into tears.

"Because you're gonna get into trouble...please Talon."

I studied her for a minute, these Avery women were full of tricks; dad and gramps had already schooled me.

"Uh huh, alright Olivia junior eat your breakfast and stop trying to play your husband." She wasn't too happy that I'd called her on her shit, hah. I'm gonna have to watch out for that one.

I'd given the guy I had working the case what Cunning had given to me the day before; he said it was a start but we needed more than just Robyn's word on shit. Now I have to set up a sting and shit. He thought maybe I should stage a fight with Skye for Mackenzie's benefit but I nixed that shit. I wouldn't give her the satisfaction not even in make believe. Besides Skye would probably junk punch my ass, she'd grown a little feisty since the I dos.