Chapter 24

"Who are you guys?" Troy asked as I walked down the stairs.

"And where's Sam?"

He came into my line of sight but by the time he did, Hawk had come into his line of sight and Troy was staring at him as I would guess anyone would have a tendency to stare at Hawk, Hawk being all that was Hawk. Then he jerked like he was pulling himself out of a trance and his eyes came to me.

"Sam, honey, what's going on? You didn't tell me you were having work done."

"Hey Troy," I greeted as I came to stand several feet to the side of where Hawk was standing several feet from Troy.

Hawk, however, didn't like this distance and I knew this when he closed it and he didn't close it by moving to me. He closed it by leaning to me, grabbing my forearm and giving it a tug so I had no option but to teeter sideways. I slammed into him, his hand left my arm and he caught me by clamping his arm around my shoulders.

"Wednesday," Hawk muttered when he'd accomplished this feat, his eyes on Troy. "Shit, I forgot."

Troy stared at Hawk, then he stared at me, then he stared at Hawk and me and he did all of this with his eyes wide and his mouth hanging open much like, I suspected, I looked on more than one occasion recently.

However I didn't struggle against Hawk's hold because I was catapulted back to yesterday when Hawk told me Troy wanted to get into my pants and therefore I was standing there, staring at Troy with his sandy blond hair and blue eyes, wearing his suit from the bank, and comparing. He was a Loan Manager. He wasn't tall but he wasn't short, he was, however, taller than me. He didn't have a bad body but he wasn't ripped by any stretch of the imagination.

And he was so far from a commando it wasn't funny.

Troy finally settled his gaze on Hawk and asked, "Who are you?"

"He's -" I started but Hawk spoke over me.

"Hawk, Sam's man."

Shit! I wished he'd quit saying that!

"Sam's man?" Troy whispered, now his face had paled.

Shit again!

"Troy, it's not -" I began.

Troy's pale face moved to me.

"You have a man?"

"Well... um -"

"Sammie!" We all heard shouted and through the front door flew Tracy.