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“Doesn’t matter to Fox. He collects people.”
Yeah, that sounded like him. “Still, I don’t seem to fit in around here anymore.”
“You just got back,” he sighed. “Give it time.”
“Time is something I…” I shook my head, not even knowing where to go with that.
“Time is what?” he asked curiously.
“I don’t know. I’ve already lost so much of it at this point. I was never supposed to be gone more than a month.”
“Yeah, Rafe has a way of tricking people into doing shit for him. You should have come to me first. I would have set you straight.”
I snorted in derision. “If only I had. I never thought things would go that way.”
“So, it wasn’t as glamorous as you planned.”
“Not even close. Don’t get me wrong, there was a ton of adventure. It was quite the experience, but coming back…”
He clasped his hands as he leaned forward. “How did you end up with a stake in your side?”
“Worried I’m still a vampire?”
“No, but very curious how that even happened. The last you told me, you ran with Honey from the bar and got married because of her dad. But what you didn’t tell me was how that all came about.”
“Yeah, that’s a bit of a long story.”
“Do you have somewhere else to be?”
I didn’t. In fact, I really didn’t want to go to Texas. It was hot and there were rattlesnakes. I survived a ton of shit over the last year. It would be a shame to die from a snake bite.
“Well, you know about the bar fight and the meeting with her father.”
“Right. You were about to be married.”
“Except, Honey had other plans. She didn’t like the idea of being forced into marriage by her father.”
“I can see that turned out really well,” he said sarcastically.
“Hey, it was still the best thing that could have happened.”
Cash rolled his eyes at me. “Can we get to the story?”
“Right, let’s see,” I said, tapping my finger against my lip. “What happened next?”
“Are you just making this shit up?”
“Of course not. I had a head injury, boss. Give me a minute.” I thought about the timeline and then it hit me. “Right, so we were leaving her apartment, but Honey didn’t want to go with her father. She had big plans to escape. Long story short, we fled as soon as we left the building.”
“Just like that.”
“Pretty much. I mean, there were details, but I won’t bore you with those.”
“Right, we wouldn’t want pesky details to get in the way.”
I grinned at his sense of humor. “We got away clean until we were on the road in the middle of nowhere. Headlights flashed behind us, shining so bright that I could hardly see.”
“Who was it? Her father?”
