Read Online Until You Come Back To Me, Book 5 by Mallory Monroe - Free Book Online

Sal then not to be fooling around
on Gemma, but Sal told him to mind his own business.   Which Reno knew he should have been doing
right now.   But Reno loved Gemma.   He knew Gemma before Sal knew her.   He had an almost fatherly affection for
her.   And what he was seeing didn’t sit
well with him at all.
    When
the door was unlocked, Reno hoped Sal would say his goodbye and get his ass
away from there.   But it didn’t
happen.   Sal went inside the home with
the woman, closing the door behind him.   Reno closed his eyes and exhaled.   He had too much to do to be spying on some asshole like his cousin.   But he didn’t like it.   Sal was going to break Gemma’s heart if he wasn’t
careful.  
    And
Reno wasn’t going to allow that.  
    Despite
what he told his wife, and despite what he had said previously himself, Reno
put his nose in it.   He grabbed his cell
phone and called Sal’s wife.

 
    Gemma
and Ted were still meeting when the call came in.   Gemma picked up her cell phone from her desk
and glanced at the Caller ID.   “I need to
take this,” she said to Ted and answered the call.   “Reno, hi.”
    “Hey,
babe,” Reno’s voice said over the phone.   “How are you?”
    “I’m
doing well. What about you?   Everything
okay?”
    “I
hope so.”
    Gemma
didn’t like the sound of that.   “Excuse
me?”
    “I
don’t beat around the bush, Gem.   You
know that.”
    “I
know it.”
    “Sal
left a restaurant with some woman.”
    Gemma’s
eyes glanced at Ted for some reason, although she was certain he couldn’t hear
Reno’s voice.   “Okay,” she said into the
phone.
    “And
not just any woman either.   A beautiful
blonde, just like he likes them.   Or, at
least, he used to like before he met you.”
    Gemma
knew her husband used to have a thing for blondes, which made their coupling so
unusual.   “So they left a restaurant?”
she asked Reno.
    “They
left and went to a house.   I figure it’s
her place, but I can’t be sure about that.   I want to go up to the door and drag his ass out of there, but you know
how volatile things get when Sal and I get together.”
    “Especially
when you disagree,” Gemma said.
    “Right.   But I’m parked outside of the house right
now.   It’s nighttime, she’s gorgeous, I
just don’t see the fucking point.   Even
if she’s a business associate, he should have handled that kind of business in
the daylight.   He’s a married man for
crying out loud.”
    Gemma
listened to Reno, a man who used to be accused of all kinds of indiscretions
with females.   Gemma remembered wondering
how Trina put up with it.   But now it was
her man being talked about, and she didn’t like it.   “Are they still there?”
    “They’re
still there.   They just went in.   He’ll probably be there for a while if their
chumminess is any indication.”
    “Chumminess?”
    “Oh,
yeah,” Reno said.    “He was hugging on
her and she gave him a little peck on the cheek.   Very chummy.”
    Gemma’s
heart dropped.  
    “It
might be nothing,” Reno quickly added.   But then he thought again.   “I
take that back.   It’s something.   But it might be innocent.   Sal helps people.   Maybe he’s helping that chick.”
    “Why
did you call me, Ree?” Gemma asked him.
    “I
called you because it looks damn suspicious to me, and you have a right to
know.   I’m no snitch, but I’ll always put
my nose in when it comes to the people I love.   Now take down this address.   Check
it out or not, but take it down.”
    Reno’s
voice always sounded like a command, but Gemma knew he meant well.   She followed that command and took down the
address.   “Thanks, Reno,” she said
afterwards.
    “I’m
no fucking snitch,” Reno reiterated.   “But this is different.”
    They
said goodbye and Gemma ended the call.   She held the cell phone for a moment longer, thinking for a moment what
she should do.   Then she thought about
the man Reno