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He nodded. “Looks just like it. Guess where I found it?”
“My dad?” she guessed.
His lips thinned. “He knows something about it, but he wouldn’t talk about it. Just said I would need it.”
She inhaled deeply. Okay. Okay. So at least part of her vision was right. She made a mental note to call her dad after work and ask him some direct questions. She talked to him all the time, but he had made a point long ago to separate his life from vision-talk. She would probably need to learn how to do that too, but for now, this vision was heavy on her.
Roller coaster.
Jenna and Cadence came around the bar and greeted her with hugs. She didn’t hug them back, but she also didn’t punch them. Progress.
“Hey asshole,” Mohawk yelled from the pool tables he and his buddies had been playing at.
The snarl in Landon’s throat was immediate.
The man held his hands up in surrender. “White flag. Just challenging you to a game.”
“I’m not getting into it tonight,” Landon called. “We’re here to have fun.”
Mohawk leaned on a pool stick and nodded his head toward four stacks of quarters on the back pool table. “I know who you are.”
Landon took a sip of his beer, his eyes never leaving the man.
“What is he talking about?” Lucia asked.
“Your man can play pool,” Mohawk said loudly as he leaned down to take a shot. “He’s sharked everyone.”
Lucia frowned at him. “What’s he talking about?”
Landon stood and put down some cash for all of the Warlander’s drinks. “Apologize for grabbing her last week,” he told him.
Mohawk picked up a baseball cap from the table nearest the pool table and put it on backwards. “I’m sorry. I was out of line.” There was actually sincerity in his voice.
“I want a warm-up game before we start,” Landon told Mohawk. “It’s been awhile since I took it seriously.”
Mohawk grinned. “Fine by me. Play one of your Crew, I’ll take a break.”
Landon folded his knife and put it back into his pocket, then slipped to the edge of the bar and gripped her hip, kissed her lips and said, “I won’t fight.”
“Good. Those pool tables are expensive,” she warned him. “And old. I want peace in this place.”
“If I start something, you can just order me not to. Apparently you own me.”
“I order you not to fight in here,” she teased.
His chuckle sounded as he walked away, and he gestured Lucas and Kru over to the table.
“I’ve never seen you smile so much before,” Danny called from where he was serving drinks down the bar.
And as Lucia watched her Crew playing pool, laughing and joking and needling the humans who were challenging her man, she knew Danny was right. She didn’t remember ever smiling this much either.
Things were just different. Landon had come in and taken her from the path she had been on, and had shown her a better one.
He made her want to be a better person. Encouraged her to spend more time with the Crew. Cheered her on when she showed him a vulnerable moment, and gah, there was so much value in a man who knew how to elevate a woman.
She didn’t know what tomorrow would bring, but Gunner’s words had changed her life. She pulled her knife from the counter and put it back into her apron.
Tonight was a good night, and that was all that mattered.
