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life she’d
grown up with it. They didn’t mean anything bad by their attention. They were
men who were used to getting what they wanted. Tristan was more like them than
he liked to admit.

Chapter
Two
     
    Tristan waved at his deputy. The boy, Kevin Thomas,
was in his early twenties and wished to serve as a deputy throughout the day.
Law Castle didn’t really need a deputy, but Tristan placed him on night watch
just because he liked the kid. He saw the way Kevin looked at Marla, and part
of him wanted there to be a happy ending between the two, even if it was a
cougar romance.
    He walked out into the warm night air. The heat
irritated him, and he’d paid a lot of money to have air conditioning in his
home.
    “I wondered when I was going to see you,” Stefan
Jackson said. The other man was leaning against his bike, the same bike Vicki
liked to ride on when there was an event taking place in town. He’d watched her
many times laughing and holding onto Stefan as he rode her around.
    “What can I do for you?” Tristan asked.
    “You can start by telling me what’s going on between
you and Vicki. She got shot last year and lost a baby.” Stefan stepped away
from his bike. “I’ve known Vicki a long time, and she doesn’t spread her legs
for anyone.”
    Anger coursed over him. Tristan didn’t like anyone
talking about his woman like that.
    “Get to your point,” he said.
    “She quit working at The Dugout to get away from
you. Her working for me guarantees you won’t come to find her. What did you do
to her?”
    “None of your business.” He
didn’t like the other man’s protective attitude. Vicki was his responsibility,
not Stefan’s.
    “Actually, my town, my business.” Stefan stepped right up to him. “Vicki’s been part of this town a lot longer
than you. I don’t want her to be rushed off because of you.”
    “Vicki’s not going anywhere.” Tristan gritted his
teeth to stop himself from lashing out. Seeing Stefan’s protective side was
making him annoyed. No one told him what to do. “And this is my town. I protect
this town and its citizens.”
    “Yeah, you were doing a stand-up job last year.”
    Stefan referred to the incident where a local drug
runner almost killed Vicki. Unable to hold back his anger, Tristan stepped up
closer. “You’ve got a problem with me?”
    “Yeah, I’ve got a problem with the guy who somehow
broke Vicki’s heart.”
    “If it bothers you so much, why don’t you take her?”
Tristan asked.
    “ Ew ,
gross. That girl is the same age as my sister, which is just fucking disgusting. I
like my women my own age.” Stefan glanced down at his watch. “Speaking of
sisters, I got to go and pick mine up from The Dugout. A couple of aliens were
hitting on her.”
    Aliens were what the locals referred to as
non-locals or out-of-towners.
    Tristan shook his head. He stood outside the station
watching as Stefan climbed back on his bike.
    “I don’t know what happened between you and Vicki.
All I know is she’s saving up enough money to get out of Law Castle,” Stefan
said, gaining his attention once again.
    “What?”
    Vicki couldn’t leave this town. He wouldn’t be able
to handle never seeing her again. No, it wasn’t possible. Tristan refused to
accept Stefan’s words.
    “I got a call from her parents to keep an eye on
her. The Law Castle Bad Boys club sticks together, Tristan. Her dad used to be
one of us until he upped and left. Dude asked me to keep an eye on his girl
until he can come and get her.”
    Tristan had seen her parents at the hospital when
she’d been discharged. She’d gone to stay with them to recover instead of
staying in town. He’d missed her like crazy. When she’d been gone he spent a
great deal of time in the bar where she worked hoping to get a chance to see
her. Steve, the owner of The Dugout, didn’t tell him until he’d spent a great
deal of money in the bar that Vicki no longer worked for him.
    He’d done the same in the