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Jace blinks at them. “Oh, hey.”
Kendall pushes past me. “What are you doing here?”
Jace doesn’t seem to be bothered but I suddenly feel there’s a misunderstanding about to start brewing. “Jace lives here!”
Everyone turns to look at me, this time their jaws about to drop on the floor.
“He lives here?” Kendall looks like she’s seconds away from having a stroke. “You two are living—?”
I start waving my hands frantically, instantly understanding her meaning. “No! Absolutely not! I meant…”
Jace is snickering behind me.
I growl over my shoulder, “Stop laughing like an idiot and fix this!”
He tucks his hands in his pockets, grinning. “Oh, but you’re handling it so well.”
I glare at him.
He just shrugs, looking amused. “It’s none of their business. Try telling them that. I don’t know why you care so much—Oomph!”
His words are cut off when Kendall flings the cushion at his face. “Say that again!”
“Don’t destroy her home.” Jace puts the cushion back in its place. “I forgot my key yesterday.”
“Yeah.” I nod, feeling relieved that he’s finally pitching in. “And since we live in the same building, I thought it would be easier if he just crashed on my couch rather than go back the whole way to the office.”
Lana is, meanwhile, peeking in the kitchen. “Well, this is cozy. You two are having breakfast together.”
“Who cooked?” Elise asked, immediately.
I stare at all three faces.
They’re not even trying to hide how nosy they’re being.
Jace decides to change the subject. “Lana, did you hear about Hashem?”
Everyone’s expressions turn grave and Lana tells him, “This morning. Some Detective David. He kept asking about you and he asked about Halley. He seemed very well informed about the relationship between you and Hashem and the incident between Hashem and Halley.”
“He’s going to be a pain in the neck,” Jace mutters. “The two were friends. He and this other detective showed up a while ago, wanting to question Halley. The moron implied that she somehow taught herself how to drive and then located his favorite bar and waited outside to run him over. Then she stashed the car and came back here only to be woken up by them.”
Kendall looks worried and turns her attention to me. “Do you have a lawyer or…?”
I shake my head. “They have video surveillance that tells them that both me and Jace left the office together and we arrived here before the accident. The detective with him, Felix, he seemed to be much nicer and together.”
I can feel Jace’s eyes on me at my last statement.
“That’s terrible.” Elise’s brow knits together and then she steps forward and links her arm with mine. “Come on. You’ve had an eventful day. Let’s get you dressed and then we’ll go shopping. We all agreed to meet at the Plaza but you never showed and then you wouldn’t answer your phone so we pull…” At Lana’s sharp look, Elise hastily changes her statement. “I mean, then we took a rough guess about where you lived and just magically arrived here.”
When I give her a suspicious look, she just smiles, innocently.
I glance at Jace who’s studying me with a strange look in his eyes. Not knowing what to make of this, I decide to just go and change. With everything going on, this might distract me from my overwhelming thoughts.
When I come back out, in a surprisingly demure pink T-shirt and mustard colored pants, I’m putting on my multicolored skull earrings, my makeup simple.
Jace is still standing there, drinking what I assume is the last cup of coffee.
Kendall is tapping her foot on the floor. “You could have come to our place and crashed.” She’s grinning at him while he’s studiously ignoring her.
