Heat Rising [Brac Village 5] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) by Lynn Hagen

his hand on the metal push bar on the door and walked outside. It was well after midnight and the streets should be pretty lifeless. Although a few businesses stayed open twenty-four hours, this wasn’t the busy city.
    Reno pointed toward two men arguing on the sidewalk right in front of the firehouse. “You called me out here to watch this?” Now Bear knew he was going to kill Reno.
    “Just listen,” Reno said as he held a hand up.
    “I’m not fucking Bailey,” the taller of the two men shouted. “I don’t know where you’re getting your damn ideas from.” The guy yelling tried to walk away, but the shorter of the two grabbed the tall guy and yanked at his arm.
    “I’ll kill his ass if I see you with him again. I’m not playing around here, Harley. I won’t share you!”
    Bear’s eyes skimmed over the tall man. He wasn’t bad looking, but Bear didn’t see why men were going nutty over Harley. From the way Bailey had been acting, he would’ve thought the man a god. Harley had black wavy hair to his shoulders, a strong jaw, and a broad build, but he was kind of common looking.
    The man must have a dick made of gold.
    “Should we tell somebody the guy is threatening Bailey’s life?” Reno asked as he crossed his arms over his chest. “I called you out here because that’s not the first time he said that since standing there. The more witnesses the better.”
    Bear agreed but wasn’t sure the cops could do anything about the threat. They just might say that the short guy was letting off steam. “Who is that standing with Harley?” Not that Bear knew who Harley was. But now he had a face to go with the name.
    “Beats me,” Reno said. “Never seen him before in my life.”
    “Is it always this lively around here?” Sampson asked as his eyes cut from Bear to the two men arguing. He seemed very engrossed in the spat. “And here I was kind of dreading moving into a small town.” The new firefighter nodded toward the quarreling men. His voice was humorous, but his eyes were way too intense to match his tone. “Looks like there’s plenty of entertainment.”
    Bear rolled his eyes. This was not entertainment. This was a guy who was playing with fire. Harley was screwing around with more than one guy, and apparently, breaking hearts. The man disgusted Bear.
    “Oh,” Spencer said as he walked out of the side door, coming to stand next to the men. “I knew it!”
    “What?” Reno asked as he glanced around Bear. “What’s going on?”
    “Don’t start,” Bear warned his mate. “No more gossiping.”
    Spencer waved a hand at Bear as he hurried over to Reno. “The tall guy is Harley. He’s a slut. The guy has apparently been screwing anything that isn’t nailed down. And now all the men are finding out about each other.” Spencer pointed toward the two men standing out front. “That’s Tommy and Harley. Tommy works down at the twenty-four-hour Laundromat.”
    Bear heard a low, menacing growl coming from Sampson and assumed the man disapproved of what was going on.
    “No shit,” Reno said. “Just how many men is he fucking?”
    Spencer shrugged. “Lord only knows.”
    “You’re not going to touch a hair on Bailey’s head!” Harley shouted. “You’re going to take your ass back to work and stop harassing me.”
    The guy had some nerve. He was running around sticking his dick in everyone’s hole and getting mad when confronted about it? Bear wanted to walk over to the arguing pair and smack the shit out of Harley.
    The two finally walked away from each other, Harley in an angry stride, Tommy looking like a kicked puppy. Maybe it was time that Bear had a talk with the alpha. Normally, Bear didn’t interfere in people’s lives. But Harley was asking to get his throat sliced by one of the scorned men. He could see the writing on the wall.
    “Back to watching television,” Sampson said as he walked back into the building, his voice flat. Flint was next, leaving Reno, Spencer, and