What was he doing to her?
“I thought that was you.” I heard Dev say quietly beside me. At his voice I jumped.
“What are you doing up so late?” I asked.
He grimaced, and I grinned. “Ahh. You are avoiding Jess.”
“If you let me sleep in with you and Ash, it would be so much easier.”
“I’m fine with it. It’s Ash you need to get past. He can be- “
“Psychotic?”
“Territorial,” I corrected.
Dev laughed out loud. “That’s putting it lightly.”
I looked at him. In the dark he looked mussed for the first time. There were dark shadows under his eyes. “You look like crap Dev.”
His face softened. “Only you could get away with telling me that.”
“Lucky me. I’ve missed you these last few days.” I said quietly.
“I’ve been around.”
“I know, but-” I sighed and breathed in the mountain air. “It’s not the same.”
“I know. I kind of miss you too,” he said softly. “How was the trip?”
I leaned my forearms on the railing, watching the darkness where the valley should have been.
“The trip was… educational.”
“Educational huh. And?”
“And I don’t know if I did the right thing, Dev.”
Dev leaned on the railing beside me. “So they gave you the spiel. Took them longer than I expected. And Kieran?”
“He was there. He’s … angry at me.”
“He’s always angry,” Dev said. “Has been the moment I met him.”
“How did you meet him?”
“Would you believe we got in a bar fight?”
I looked at him. “No. I wouldn’t.”
“It’s true. I was with some people – they were mouthing off about dark magic users. K took it badly.”
“I bet,” I said. “So what, you punched each other and became best friends?”
“I wouldn’t call us best friends,” his nose crinkled with disgust. “What are we, five?”
I laughed. “Of course you wouldn’t. Dev Redgrave doesn’t dofriends.”
He shot me a dirty look. “Smartass.”
