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He slid into a pair of brand-new slippers the maid had given him and he smirked at how the wealthy lived.
“Stay, boy,” Ice told Grit, who’d lifted his head when Ice walked to the door. The big dog had already been fed and was sprawled out on the bed and resumed his snooze.
Leaving the room Dave had given them for the night, he made his way to the dining room and found Dave sitting at the table along with two nicely dressed women.
One of the women was Dave’s cousin, Monica. She had to be in her mid-fifties, but she looked much younger with dark wavy hair and blue eyes. The other woman looked several years younger with bright blue eyes and long blonde hair. Ice supposed that some men might find it sexy.
“Is this okay?” Ice gestured to his clothes, he could eat in his room if not.
“It’s fine. Come in,” Dave said, waving him into the room and pointing to the chair at his left. Dave had changed into a dark blue polo and black slacks. His curling black hair was threaded with light sprinkles of gray, but his steel-gray eyes were sharp as a tack. The former SecDef always looked sophisticated and powerful.
“Hi Ice!” Monica waved, sending her dark hair tumbling.
“Hey, Monica” Ice said, settling into the chair next to Dave.
“This is my friend, Charlene Jones,” Monica gushed.
“They dropped by unexpectedly,” Dave said flatly.
“David…” Monica pouted at her cousin, “if I told you I was coming, you’d say don’t bother.”
“And for good reason. I have company.”
“It’s only Ice.”
“Should we leave?” Charlene asked, looking from Dave to Monica.
Ice stabbed at a potato and waved it at Charlene. “No, they always argue,” he said and popped the bite into his mouth. Charlene gave him a tentative smile and picked at the salad on her plate.
“See?” Monica glared. “You’re scaring the guests.”
Dave snorted and returned to his plate. Ice wasn’t sure why Monica had brought a friend, but he suspected that she was trying to get Dave married. Ice could have told her that she was barking up the wrong tree with miss blondie there, but it wasn’t his story to tell.
“Ice? Are you seeing anyone at the moment?” Monica asked.
“No, but there’s someone I’m interested in.”
“Oh poo…well, if you’re not that invested, you should stick around tomorrow and we can all play tennis and swim.”
Ice smiled at Monica. He’d be gone in the morning now that he was fully reinstated back into Erebus. Dave and his matchmaking cousin would have to deal with this shit on their own.
He had given Echo space. A lot of space over the past several months, but now he had every intention of finding Echo after what Dave had told him what little he knew of his past. Dave only knew what Solomon had told him because Echo wasn’t sharing. All Dave could say was that Echo had split from Solomon for about six years and then one day in twenty twenty-two, he’d reappeared.
Where had he been those six years?
Later that same evening, Ice’s cell phone buzzed with an incoming text.
Stone: “Where are you?”
Ice: “At Dave’s, why?”
Those three little dots flashed across the screen telling him Stone was responding, but then they stopped. They flashed again and then stopped. Stone must have been writing a book. Ice huffed and flopped back on the bed and waited.
Stone: “Solomon gave us a job together.”
It took that long to type six words? Why the hell was Solomon pairing him up with people suddenly?
And, why the sudden job? Ice could only imagine that Solomon had to be beyond pissed.
