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When I bare my teeth at him, Agatha tells him, “Come on, Zayn. I’ll buy you a pizza.”
Zayn gives her a suspicious look. “Why? What do you want from me?”
Agatha just shrugs. “What? I can’t be nice to you?”
“Sure. When you’re not being a bitch.”
As the two glare at each other, Ian intervenes. “All right, children. Let’s leave the grownups alone. I’ll buy you both a pizza, so kiss and make up.”
Locking the door after them, I see Sarah yawn and then she looks at me. “I like your friends.”
She thanked them, and Zayn was a little wary when she started tearing up a little. However, now they are gone, and I can see the exhaustion setting in.
I turn off the stove and force her to sit down at the counter. “A hot meal, a bath, and a night’s rest; you’ll be as good as new by tomorrow.”
And sure enough, once I fed her and she took a warm shower, she lay down in bed and was out like a light.
Resting my head on my hand, I lean next to her and watch her sleep.
I hadn’t been making light of the fact that she had had a rough couple of days. But now that she is here, I am going to make sure she takes it easy.
I run my fingers through her damp hair and press the strands to my lips, my heart quivering in my chest.
I might be in love with this woman.
The thought both scares me and makes my heart skip a beat.
10
Sarah
Living with Fergus isn't hard.
Although it has been three days, I feel very comfortable.
Though his lavish lifestyle does throw me off every once in a while, it is something I could grow accustomed to if he would stop giving me small pieces of dainty jewelry.
Even now he is sulking on the large sofa in the living area because I refused the diamond-encrusted earrings that I found next to my bedside this morning.
I lick the yogurt off my spoon and sigh. “You can’t be that mad at me, Fergus.”
He turns up the volume of the television, making me roll my eyes.
I honestly don't know where he is even digging up these pieces of jewelry from. He went to his restaurant in the morning after dropping me to my school and picked me up promptly at three. I can’t imagine him hoarding jewelry to hide around the house for me to find.
I heat the pasta in the microwave and walk over to where he is and sit down next to him. “Are you going to ignore me for the rest of the day?”
Focusing on him distracts me from thinking about Bryan. Ruby, his girlfriend, called me on my cell phone, worried when I didn't answer the house phone. She is currently in Nebraska, staying with her brothers. Bryan made sure she was safe before he disappeared.
She is four months along and texted me a picture of her belly. I heard the forced cheer in her voice and remembered that I am not the only one who is scared.
However, I have more hope than I had a week ago.
Ian managed to track down Bryan’s credit card transactions at a gas station. He is looking into it. And Zayn said that he heard whispers. However, Fergus told me to let him handle it. When I protested, he firmly explained to me that nobody would try to cross Zayn. Even the Street Serpents weren’t stupid enough to attack Zayn.
I wondered whether Zayn runs the underground world.
When they came over to deliver the news, a struggle broke out between Agatha and Zayn over the last slice of pizza, and I watched as the ninety-pound woman attempted to suffocate the ‘king of the underground world,’ who is double her size, with a throw cushion.
