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He said something too quiet for me to hear, and her eyes widened.
Then, staring into her eyes, he took a bite, and I saw her throat bob.
Music filled the air—Amara threw her arm around Callie’s shoulder, and began to dance.
The mood in the room lightened—though I was ignoring the elephant.
“Did you forget it was your birthday?” Summer asked.
“How did you know?” I was amazed—I’d never told her the date.
“I have my ways,” she threw me a smirk as she took my hand, leading me towards Knight. “And put that away, please.”
I hadn’t even realized I was still holding my gun.
“Rook, this is Knight. Knight, this is Rook. And also, Tatiana.” Summer said sarcastically. “They’re new friends I made.”
“Hi, Rook. It’s good to see you again.” Without preamble, Tatiana hugged me, and I folded into it. Holding her tight. I’d missed her, too.
Fuck me. What had Summer done to me? I was hugging people? Missing them?
As Tatiana pulled back, I didn’t miss Summer’s satisfied grin. Then she leaned into my side as I faced Knight.
“I see you got what you needed,” he said, referring to Saul. He’d been the one to give me the information that led me back here, in exchange for leaving him and Tatiana alone in Vegas.
“I did.”
“And I’m not talking about your revenge.”
I blinked at him in surprise and that smile, that damn smile he always had, crooked upwards.
“Fuck me,” I groaned, rubbing my hand over my face. He was talking about Summer. Bastard could read me like a book.
“You would know what that’s like,” I finally said, and he shrugged.
“It only gets better from here.”
We grinned at each other stupidly before it melted off his face and he turned serious.
“Really, though,” he said. “I’m here because I wanted to make amends. It was wrong of me for what I did to you.”
I blinked in shock. Had Knight apologized?
“This must be why I saw pigs flying earlier.”
He chuckled, and Tatiana wrapped an arm around him, her face shining with happiness. “He’s learned a thing or two about making up for all the shitty things he did.”
“I did.” He said in all seriousness. Fuck me, pigs really were flying. “And,” he continued, pulling something out from behind him, “I brought a gift.”
I took the small, wrapped package, tied with a red ribbon. Tatiana must’ve wrapped it—red ribbons were her signature thing—the reminder made a trickle of sentimental warmth flow through me. “Thank you.”
“It’s…” Knight struggled to find the right word, “they’re some videos I managed to find, in some of my old stuff. From times we hung out. It has Nana in them.”
I blinked, feeling a burn at the back of my eyes. “Thank you,” I mumbled, touched.
“And,” he continued, “if I can do anything to make up for what I did to you, then tell me.”
It took me a moment to get over my shock, but Summer’s hand in mine was grounding.
