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Her senses couldn’t make heads or tails of anything.
Frustrating on a good day, but doubly so today.
Silver would be watching her every move tonight.
So she’d done a quick lap of the grounds and found the Merricks.
Nick was playing skeeball with that bitchy blond cheerleader.
Gabriel was with a dark-haired girl and a younger boy, throwing darts at balloons way at the end of the row of game stands.
Chris was sitting on a bench with the brunette who’d clung to Hunter in the hallway, and they were sharing a box of popcorn.
The crowds were giving her a headache, and she clung to the shadows between two tents, wondering which Merrick brother she should attach herself to.
“Looking for your friend?”
Kate turned. Hunter had found her.
And his eyes were full of suspicion.
Was Silver right? Did Hunter suspect what she was?
What they were?
But there was also a spark of challenge in his eye. If he knew they were Guides, wouldn’t he be doing something about it?
“What’s your problem?” she said. She slid a tube of gloss from her bag and ran it across her lips.
“Can’t figure out your angle.”
“My angle?”
“What’s with the little texts? Old boyfriend not doing it for you?”
She wanted to kill Silver for making it look like they were a couple. “Maybe I just like you.”
“Maybe I just like you back.”
His voice was quiet and intense, more sure than she was ready for. She turned away, suddenly flustered, heading into the darkness behind the tents. Even Silver couldn’t see in the dark.
“I don’t think that’s all,” Hunter said, following her. “I think you’re playing me for something.”
She hesitated. Suddenly he was closer.
“The problem is,” he said, “I just can’t figure out what.”
And then, before she had an answer, he was moving away.
God, he was making her insane.
She went after him. “Are you always this direct?”
“Saves time.”
She felt breathless, like he’d snatched control of this little interlude and was now playing keep-away with it. “I can’t even figure out whether you’re mad at me.”
She’d thrown a little plea into her voice, but he didn’t turn. “You’re not fooling me,” he said.
