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“Is something wrong, Mrs. Angelos?”
She paused two feet from me. “I do not need someone in the toilet with me. Where the hell do you think I will go in a gown like this? It’s not like I can sneak out a window.”
“Rebecca will only intervene if your safety is compromised.” I kept my tone bland and without inflection.
She cocked a hand on her hip. “My other team lead didn’t feel this level of security was necessary. Why is it so important now?”
“Your other security lead wasn’t me.”
“Or me,” Xander added, coming up behind me. “We take our roles seriously.”
A flush crept up Nerine’s face as that unsaid energy that seemed to flow from the three of us surged. We shared so much history, and it couldn’t reach the light of day.
How long had it been since we’d been this close? Almost five years. The night before everything went to hell.
“I’m not a child.” She kept her gaze between Xander and me, not daring to look us in the eyes.
We knew this firsthand.
“We have our orders to keep you safe,” Xander responded.
“This is all to keep me safe?”
I hoped she read past the words I’d say next. “Everything we’ve done is to keep you safe.”
“Is that right?” She smirked. “Could have fooled me. Fuck off with keeping me safe.”
I should have known better, subtle never worked with her.
“Whether you want it or not,” I said, “we will make sure nothing happens to you, Angel.”
Fire lit her eyes, and for a split second, I thought she’d deck me.
“Never call me Angel again. I’m not your angel. You lost the right.” Her attention moved to Xander. “And so did you. I am only an assignment to you. Follow his orders like the good little enforcer lapdogs you are. I’ve survived on my own so far. I can keep doing it.”
Turning, she stalked toward the main entryway of the house.
“That went better than I expected.”
I glared at Xander. “We shouldn’t have stayed away. She hates us.”
“No, she doesn’t. She’s smarter than everyone around us and knows we had no choice but to keep our distance.”
I resisted the urge to smack him on the back of the head. “From where I’m standing, she’d rather gut us than look at us.”
“Did you forget how you two started?”
Only an idiot would forget how we’d circled each other as if we were feral cats ready to claw each other’s eyes out. It had annoyed the hell out of me that Papa saddled me with babysitting duty for the boss’s fourteen-year-old daughter. And she’d felt the same way about me being her babysitter.
After getting expelled from her elite private school with all the debutantes like her and where security was part of the tuition, she’d decided to attend school with all of us peasants instead of finding another institution on par with her social status.
So my job was to keep an eye on her as she navigated her first year of high school.
“That was a lifetime ago.”
“Doesn’t change the dynamics.” Xander’s gaze locked with mine, the undercurrent of the unsaid pulsing between us.
Nerine folded her arms, shooting me a glare as she waited for us. The giant rock on Nerine’s left hand glimmered with the reflection of the light.
