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 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.