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He definitely had a type.
And it isn’t you, a small voice whispered. I shook my head to shut it up. It didn’t matter, anyway. Yeah, we spent one incredibly random night together. His kiss touched more than my lips, and being beneath him took me to places I’d never been, but Maliki and I were just friends. Surprisingly good friends, in fact.
I needed his friendship more than I wanted to find out how badly he’d hurt me, or all the ways I’d unintentionally hurt him. Two broken people couldn’t offer the other anything but pain.
“Girl, all you gotta do is tell his ass to stop,” Trix commented, following my line of vision.
I wouldn’t ever do that. “What makes you think he’d listen to me?”
She clucked her tongue and tossed back the rest of her beer with one large gulp.
Gross.
“Because you matter to him.”
“Yeah, so do you.”
“True, but not remotely in the same way.”
“Right,” I said dismissively.
I tapped my fingers on the bar and glanced towards the back of the room. The redhead the blonde had been with was practically climbing into a stranger’s lap.
She didn’t seem all that concerned about her friend.
If Addy had tried something like that, I’d have been breaking doors down. Fortunately, as reckless as my cousin was, she wasn’t a total idiot, and she was with Zane.
I returned my gaze to where they were standing; they must have made some progress.
The bartender appeared to be explaining something as he scribbled on a piece of paper. It’d been a good while since we’d had any kind of lead. We were simply bouncing from town to town, seeking information. It was Lucifuge who told us to try here.
The door swung open again and two people entered the bar—a woman with long, teal hair who couldn’t have been more than five feet tall, and a man who had to be nearly seven.
They remained just inside the entryway, both scanning the room, clearly searching for someone.
When the woman’s eyes landed on me, she paused for a second or two, and then she began to head my way. The man was like a shadow, right at her back.
There was a silent threat evident on his face that dared anyone to get too close.
Before they could reach me, Zane caught sight of them and immediately placed Addy behind him, his entire demeanor going from somewhat relaxed to protective.
“He is such a caveman,” Trix chuckled.
I couldn’t have agreed with that statement more, but I wouldn’t speak ill of him for it, either.
His unwavering devotion to all things Addy wasn’t something I could thank him for with words.
I watched him and the giant of a man speak quietly to one another, and some of the tension gradually eased from his shoulders. Then, he surprised the hell out of me by shaking the man’s hand.
“Who’s that?”
“I dunno. Your guess is as good as mine,” Trix replied.
As they began speaking in earnest, the woman he’d come in with squeezed around them and closed the remaining distance between us.
“Hi,” she greeted with a reserved but friendly smile.
I noticed the Anubis tatted on the left side of her chest straight away. It was placed in such a way one couldn’t miss it, just like the inverted cross inked beside my right ear.
