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“You two need to wait here,” Addy continued.
“And why exactly would we do that?” Maliki questioned, finally looking away from me.
“The last time we took you two into a place for a lead, you killed three people before we got to question one,” Trix answered.
I guess I could see how that might be an issue, but that had been us trying to make someone speak the hell up.
“Just let us check it out first. If the environment calls for two hostile hellions, I’ll whistle,” Zane said before his navy gaze swung to me. “I’m more worried about you than him, for the record. Maliki has excellent self control. You don’t.”
“Neither does your reckless princess.”
“Hey,” Addy objected.
He gave me his usual, annoyingly smug grin.
“I can control Addy.”
“The bite mark on your neck says otherwise.”
“The ones on her pert little ass make up for it. So does the one right beside her—”
“I don’t need any more details,” I interjected.
“Yeah, this discussion is done. Let’s go, dickhead.” Addy pulled her hand free of his and stalked off.
“Our guy is supposedly wearing a funky ass hat and boots, for the record.”
He left us with those words, catching up to Addy in two strides and wrapping an arm around her shoulder.
“You think they have a bathroom?” Greer asked, following with Trix, a hand on his stomach.
Alone with Maliki once again, I released a heavy breath and took a quick survey of our location before leaning against the side of the truck.
Heated metal warmed my back through the thin fabric of my tank-top. Maliki settled himself right beside me, crossing muscled arms over his chest. He didn’t attempt to speak to me.
While that wasn’t unusual for us, the tension and awkwardness was.
I took stock of the massive pair of balls attached to my chest, and spoke up. “Are you mad at me?”
“I’m always pissed, Nyx, but never at you.”
I swallowed thickly and brought a hand up to shade my eyes from the blazing sun, turning so I was facing him. “Is it her?”
“Loaded question.”
Not liking his response, I turned back to my original position. “I’m angry. Kinda sad, too.”
“Is it him?”
Okay, he was right, this was a hefty question. My answer was equally as weighed down, and I wasn’t ready to go there quite yet, not when we were on unsteady ground for the first time in over a week. So I answered as simply as I could.
“It’s everything, Malik. Including you.”
Without warning, he pushed off the truck and stepped directly in front of me, hands landing on the tinted window and caging me in.
“What is it about me, Nyx? Tell me, because I think it’s time we started accepting the truth.”
“I don’t—”
