Chapter fifty-one

“You can make it all better by leaving me alone.’

He stood in a darkened corner of the club, questioning what was left of his sanity for stalking Roy. But seeing Roy kiss Angelo through the CCTV footage had flipped a dormant switch in him and he knew he could no longer stay away, blood oath be damned.

Which was exactly what led him to crash the date Roy was having. It’d been a coincidence that he saw Roy at that restaurant. It was true that the restaurant was a cheap, homely place and was far from his usual taste but his international business partner had insisted on a local seafood restaurant to give him the feel of a local during his stay in Louisiana.

Then while engaging in small talk with the man, Bryan had been texting Roy on his phone, smiling lightly at his pretense of offhanded replies when his eyes had strayed over and halted on that mop of short dark hair that shined under the fluorescent lights.

Then he noticed that Angelo guy seating across the table from him, looking at h