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The gigantic, blond shifter stood on my doorstep with a donut in his hand. There was a single bite taken out of it.
I plucked it from his fingers, then grabbed the purple donut box from him and walked back to the couch.
“You look…” he started, trailing off when he realized he had nothing polite to say.
I took a vicious bite of my donut.
The chocolate glaze melded perfectly with the abundance of sugar in my mouth.
The way I looked didn’t matter.
“I told August I’d give Jasper updates about you,” Eli finally said. “What am I supposed to tell him?” he gestured to my face, which was probably red, blotchy, and a little swollen.
I took another violent bite.
Its deliciousness would not sway me.
“I thought of a way to prove it.” Eli changed the subject again.
“To prove what?” My mouth was full when I spoke.
“That he’s planning on coming back. Here.” Eli tapped the screen of his phone a few times, then handed it to me.
I scanned the text conversation.
August
I put the cabin in her name. She should get an email a day or two after I’m gone. Tell her after heat ends, so she knows she doesn’t need to leave.
Eli
Tell her yourself
August
She’s dealing with enough right now
Eli
She’d rather hear it from you
August
Just tell her
The date on the conversation marked it as taking place a week and a half before heat ended.
“That doesn’t prove anything. Transferring a mortgage to me when I don’t have a job doesn’t exactly seem like a kindness.”
“There’s no mortgage. Dragons get paid well to protect the prison. I’m sure you know that.”
He had mentioned buying Eli a cabin when he bought his. We just hadn’t really talked about money before.
I finished off my donut and grabbed another one from the box.
It was far emptier than it looked like it had started, which made me flash an annoyed look at Eli.
He lifted his hands as if in surrender. “He wanted you to have a place to live after graduation, and he thought it was yours as much as it was his.”
