Talon - A Warriors MC Romance
Or was his chest just hitching with strain?
“Alright, clear out!” Jake shouted. “It’s going!” He motioned to Talon, who darted back and wiped the saw blade clean on his jeans, then dropped to a knee behind a heap of cut limbs. The world seemed to hold its breath.
The trunk gave a tortured crack and the oak lurched forward, branches flailing. I jerked Logan behind me just as the tree slammed to the ground in an explosion of leaves and dirt.
A cloud of dust swept the yard, swallowing the men, the house, the sun. For a long, impossible second, the only sound was the ragged rush of my own pulse.