Things We Hide from the Light (Knockemout, #2)

by Lucy Score

He might have been standing there complaining, but it was plain as day that Knox Morgan was happier than he’d ever been.

“And don’t let me fuck it all up.” I grinned. “I’d be honored to be your groomsman…person?” “Naomi’s calling you a groomsgal, but I’m not saying that shit in public. Stef’s a bridesman and I am sayin’ that.”

“Sorry, kids. Gotta throw someone else under the bus or they’ll never move on.”

She’d lied to me and my family, and I was going to find out why.

Maybe I would have dragged her to the floor and used my teeth and tongue and fingers on her until she was naked and begging for me.

Jeremiah gave me a sweat towel.” “Nash gave me his water. Are we as pathetic as I think we are?” “Oh, much worse,” Stef insisted.

Nash Morgan was a hot mess. Emphasis on the hot.

“Night, Angel.” “Night, hotshot.” Piper let out a whiny little yip. I grinned and gave her a pat. “Good night to you too, Piper.”

In the dark, he reached for me, his hand linking with mine on top of the covers. Yep. There would be no sleep for me tonight.

“Angel, please look at me,” Nash begged. “I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to touch you like that.”

“You came to me? In your sleep?” I’d also come on him in his sleep.

One thing was for sure, he never would have ended up behind bars at seventeen if someone had given him a chance.

He thought he and Dilton were friends. But Dilton still seemed to think they were in some kind of competition.

last night he was overheard running his mouth at that shithole bar Hellhound talkin’ bout how he’s gunnin’ for chief since you can’t do the job.”

“Now?” Grave asked. “Now,” I said grimly.

“I earned this office and I’ve worked damn hard to make sure men like you don’t fucking abuse it.”

My vagina hated Lucian Rollins.

“Lina is one of the fucking good ones.”

That can happen fast too.” I thought about our

And I do mean everything.”

“Nothing wrong with your communication as a couple,” I said.

He was kind of a poker instead of a thruster, if you know what I mean.”

“Some things are tougher than others to get over,” he insisted, those blue eyes locking on to mine. “Some things are,” I agreed. Bullet holes and broken hearts.

I needed something from Lina that she didn’t seem willing to give.

Something that was as essential to me as oxygen. Honesty.

And the scales wouldn’t be balanced unless she needed me back.

A slow, vengeful smile spread over my face. “You should ask her out.”

The woman had taken my dog for a treat and now she was lying to me. Lina Solavita was maddening.

“That was cold, my friend,” he said with just a hint of glee.

Your choice.” I wanted the cold, the dark. But she’d unlocked something in me, and instead of the nothingness I’d gotten used to, I was burning alive with rage.

“You’re making a big deal out of—” “I trusted you, Angelina. I opened up to you and you played me.”

That put you in my bed talking to you about fucking panic attacks and memory loss.”

“That’s all I wanted, Angel.”

“I’m never going to forgive you for this.” “Back at you, baby. Now talk.”

“You’re acting like a scorned lover when the only thing we are is…” “What? What are we, Angelina? You want to say neighbors? Acquaintances?” I slapped the file down on the table in a display of temper. “You know my darkest fucking secret. You let me tell you.”

“Go home, Nash. Leave me alone.” I went, but only because looking at her made my chest hurt. Like she’d managed to do more damage than the two bullets I’d taken.

I’m tired of showing up to places and running into Tall Dark and Pissy.

She means Sinful Suit Daddy.

After the “incident,” we’d all been affected in different ways.

“You doing okay? You sound a little down.”

Knox, I noted, didn’t bother to say hi. He merely glared at me before looking away. Stupid Nash and his big, stupid mouth.

“I’d rather go to the gynecologist and the dentist on the same day,”

Real

“You have a date?” Naomi shouted the question loud enough that all the men turned and stared at us.

“Oh, look. Here comes Nash. I thought he had to work.”

Oh, goody. We were gonna go there. In public. With witnesses.

Everyone stared at us as if Nash and I had just turned into a live-action telenovela in front of them. “I said leave her alone, not be a dick to her,” Knox snapped.

“Will someone please explain what crawled up y’all’s butts so I can choose a side? Spoiler alert: Team Not Lucian.”

“Lina’s been lying to everyone,” Nash announced.

I braced for the end of my longest-running friendship. But he was looking at his brother.

We yelled at each other for a good half an hour while stompin’ on a multigenerational roach fest before she agreed to move.”