Page 44 of Indecent Lies

The feel of him under her.

The taste inside his mouth.

The way he’d gripped her hair and kissed her back.

He’d kissed her back!

Poppy remembered now why she was drinking.

She’d overheard Tait and his friend talking about how he was still in love with Addison and Poppy got all in her jealous feelings about it.

Having never been drunk before, she didn’t know she’d turn into a predatorial floozy.

No wonder he was asking her about playing games earlier.

Her face was beet red when she called him.

“Hey.”

“I’m so sorry I attacked you last night.” She blurted, only to hear his laugh a second later.

“Remembered huh?”

“I wouldn’t blame you for kicking me out.”

“You on the way home?”

Maybe. She might just toss herself into the gutter.

She told him yes, and they hung up because she was much too shrouded in shame to listen to his laughter for another second.

She was jealous of Addison.

Now she remembered what she’d heard, it stayed on her mind while she dragged her feet through the sidewalk slush back to his loft.

Why would he still want his brother’s wife?

Was that the reason he never returned to New York?

Addison was not a nice woman at all.

And her point last night was never more true.

That woman didn’t deserve the affections of the Hunt brothers.

TWELVE

“The damning judgment of Souls.” – Texas

Now Texas was back in Armado Springs, he couldn’t avoid running into aSoulswherever he went.

He caught sight of Tag at the gym, sparring with a young guy. They exchanged a chin lift.

Out running he was passed by three of theSoulsbikes and it was Arson who turned around and looked at Texas but the bikes carried on riding.

And just today, in the hardware store of all places it was Uncle Jed who cornered Texas when he was trying to avoid the old man.

“How’s it going, son?”