Chapter 30

Luc fisted his hands in the tablecloth. He knew it was telling, but hell, Deke saw through him anyway. “It infuriates the hell out of me. I’ve had moments lately where I wanted to break every bone in his miserable body.”

“She’s more than a fuck to you?” Deke sounded surprised.

As much as Luc wanted to avoid answering the question, he couldn’t. In fact, he’d been asking himself the same thing.

“I don’t understand it. She’s everything I don’t need. Shady profession, total lack of modesty, so damn independent. Probably multiple lovers,” he snarled. “I can’t see her being happy with a rock on her hand, kids in tow, living in suburbia.”

“But you don’t know that for a fact?”

“No,” he admitted.

“Let me ask you something. Were you ever jealous watching me in bed with Kimber?”

Luc paused. But the answer was easy. “No. Though you two had a bond, for a long time I felt completely involved in the relationship.”

“I couldn’t stand watching you touch her,”