Killer Curves (Dangerous Curves 3) のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 41 - チャプター 50

“Yeah, I know. That was six years ago, and I have no desire to go back to Texas at all. I love Colorado, and I love Denver, and I just started again here.” He shrugged. “This is home now.”“And Curves?” This was the part that still floored her. “Why did you decide to start bartending?”“Because in a completely crazy and totally inexplicable way, I find it easier to handle not drinking alcohol if I’m around it all the time.”She cocked her head. “Say what?”“I know, right?” That teasing, sexy grin was back on his face now, and she relaxed a bit, feeling like she knew Aidan again. “It’s a kind of… exposure therapy, I guess.”Gabi was puzzled. “What’s that?”“It’s typically used to treat fears and phobias, actually. The whole idea is that if someone is around the thing that they fear the most in a safe and controlled setting, then they’ll gradually be able to change their reaction to the thing.”“That makes sense.”“Yeah, and it’s amazingly effective too. It totally breaks the person’s a

“But the Dad that I knew would never have had an affair, never have abandoned the mother of his child, never have left his daughter alone in the world… and since he did do all of those things, I kind of feel like I can’t trust my judgment about my own parents right now.”Aidan sighed, stroked her hair. “Yeah.”“So did my Mom know? I want to think that she didn’t – but I have no clue.” Gabi twisted her fingers together in agitation. “I’m – I’m having hard time with that, actually, and I can’t answer it. Maria asked me, too, and I didn’t know what to say.”“Is she angry about it all?”“Surprisingly, no. She was shocked when I called her up out of the blue and explained who I was, and she was really hesitant to meet me in person for a long time. It took about six months of phone calls before she finally agreed to meet me.”“And it went OK?”“Yeah. Yeah, it did. Like I said, she didn’t seem angry but she was really… wary, I guess. Like she was afraid to believe she actually had any family

Aidan was on automatic pilot at the bar. His body may have been at Curves pouring beers and shots of whisky, but his mind was at his place, wondering what Gabriela was doing right then. And God knows, his heart was with her; he was sure it was actually beating in time with hers.“So… how’s Gabi?”He jumped a bit, startled out of his thoughts. He turned to see Jax standing there, Mac on one side of him and King on the other. Aidan blinked, wondering just how the hell the three of them had snuck up on him like that. Wow, I’m a goddamn space cadet tonight, huh?“She’s better,” he said, starting to pull beers for the guys. “Worried about Maria, scared about those fuckers finding both of them… but calmer, I think.”“Yeah?” Mac said, going into doctor mode. “She’s eating OK?”“Yep. No problems there.”“She talking to you? Or does she sit and stare into space?”“No, nothing like that. She’s OK mentally, and she’s talking about everything openly.”“Bad dreams? Insomnia?”“Well, a bit. She ha

Since uncovering that tidbit about Mirrie by accident, King had done a bit of digging, though. If his girlfriend was going to be in such close contact with Joker Kane’s sister, he wanted to be sure that both women were safe. He’d found out that Mirrie had been raised in The Fallen Angels motorcycle clubhouse scene – her druggie Dad was still a member and her Mom had been a hooker hellion who'd gotten knocked up – and for most of her life, Mire had probably thought of the MC as her family. A dysfunctional, dangerous one, no fucking doubt about that, but still family. The only one she’d ever had.When she’d resolved to get sober, Mirrie had somehow managed to walk away from The Fallen Angels, from her parents, from her brother. All of that made her hands-down one of the bravest people King had ever known. She'd had no contact with any of them since, and she never even spoke about that life, as far as King knew. But she still had to have some feelings about him and Jax going to the clubh

“Actions also get people killed when they don’t have to end up that way,” King pointed out. “We should try to figure this out before anyone else dies.”“Anyone else?” Trigger said in a low, almost-silent hiss. Usually when he spoke like this, it terrified the crap out of grown men, but King wasn’t a guy to be even slightly freaked out by a scary voice. “Did somebody die, Kingston? I didn’t hear about a body turning up.”“Yeah. Somebody definitely died.” King held his eyes. “Look, I don’t give a shit about Santos, OK? He was your man, and he was screwing you over, and he knew who he was dealing with. His risk, his neck, his life. You’ll handle your people how you see fit, MacGee, and I’ll have no opinion about any aspect of your business… until it comes into my yard and affects my people and my friends. Now, Gabi Torres is my business, you get me? She’s an innocent who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she wants nothing more than to pretend that it never happened. So w