“You just made me the happiest man on Earth.”
“You make it sound like I said yes to a proposal, not a date.” I brush my hair from my face.
“Technically, it was a proposal of sorts,” Luca smirks.
I’m sittingin the Guild lounge, sifting through everything they’ve gathered on Daniel when the doors swing open behind me.
“He looks like he got hit by a truck,” Maeve announces.
“Not helpful.” Noah deadpans.
“It was an observational statement.” I can hear the smile in her voice.
“A rude one.”
“Oh, I’m sorry, would you like me to pretend his face isn’t fifty shades of purple?”
“I’d like you to have tact, just once,” Noah almostpleads.
“It’s not like he can hear me from here.”
I laugh as I turn. “God, I’ve missed you two.”
“Iz!” Maeve skips over and crushes me in a hug. “How are you holding up?”
“I’m alright.” I hug her back.
They drop into the seats on either side of me.
“Well, hello, stranger.” I turn to Noah.
He chuckles. “Hello yourself.”
“I feel like you’ve been avoiding me.”
“It does feel like you’ve been avoiding her,” Maeve chimes in.
Noah shoots Maeve a look, then turns back to me with an easy smile, “No, I just figured you had your hands full with all the bullshit, so I was helping where I could.”
“I appreciate it. Really.”
Noah gives me a large, cheesy smile. Maeve laughs.
“So, what are you looking at?” Noah leans in, glancing at the screen.
I slump back, huffing out my annoyance.
“Daniel. I’m trying to sort the real intel from the crap Gideon planted.”
Maeve hums. “How can you tell?”
“Gideon had Jace sabotage certain missions. He told us which ones to ignore.” Noah pulls the laptop over to him, his fingers going to work.
I turn to face Maeve. “What have you been up to?”
She forces air through her lips. “Nothing really. Just hanging around, classes and stuff.”
“You should do some of the training we do for the Guild.” I nudge her.
