AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Xander decided with Tina and Ariana as long as we remained on Angelos property, we didn’t need to hide anything. I agreed.”
“You took advice from two eighteen-year-olds?”
“Xander did. I agreed with him.”
“Don’t I get a vote in this?”
He tugged me forward. “No.”
“What if it gets out?”
“Will it change your mind about us if it does?”
“Of course not.”
“Then, why are we discussing this?”
I clenched my teeth. “You’re such a jackass.”
“And you love it.”
I couldn’t help but smile. “Yes, I do.”
Theo and I worked our way through a group of people watching Xander work on Garren, one of the soldiers under Theios Alex.
Xander’s concentration was absolute. Nothing distracted him when he was in the zone. Right now, his focus was on Garren’s upper arm. From where I stood, it looked as if Xander was in the process of completing a sleeve he’d worked on in pieces.
“Hey, asshole, can you fit in a walk-in?” Theo stepped into the beam of the spot lamp trained on Garren’s arm.
“You’re the asshole, standing in my light.” Xander lifted his head with an angry scowl. “Fuck off with you and your walk?—”
He locked his attention on me.
Without saying anything, I reached into my pocket, pulled out the paper with a sketch more than five years old, unfolded it, and set it on the counter near him.
“Everyone, get the fuck out of here.” Xander stood. “It’s time to evacuate the premises.”
Twenty-Four
Xander
“You heard him. Get out,” Theo ordered as I continued to hold Nerine’s sapphire gaze.
She’d kept it.
The back of my throat burned with more emotions than I could ever express.
I’d dared her to let me design something for her, and she’d agreed. Theo and I’d spent hours working on it between shifts.
We’d taken the symbols from the Angelos crest, created the sketch to represent the three of us, and then added our names to the images. The design would be laid in black ink with no other added colors, making it stand out against her light golden skin.
Theo and I never believed she’d go through with the tattoo. She just never seemed the type to get one. Plus, Theios Peter and his overprotectiveness with Nerine gave us apprehension about doing anything visible to her that would reveal our secret.
Then she’d surprised us and said she wanted me to ink her on her next birthday. But that day never came since all our worlds changed six months after we’d given her the sketch.
“This is stupid. I don’t understand why everyone has to leave,” Ariana complained.
“We’re her sisters.” Christina joined in. “It isn’t as if she’s getting inked on her ass or boobs. Please tell me it isn’t on her boobs.”
