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I swallow hard. “Why do you think he’d listen to me?”
“You’re Gigi, right? Took me a while to put two and two together. You’re the girl he used to hang out with some years back.” He frowns. “So you’re the only chick, hell, the only person he’s ever listened to. The only one who ever got through to him. Fuck me if I know why.”
With a shake of his head, he turns and goes, melting into the shadows, and I slide down the wall, dazed, my ass hitting the floor.
Clues, my sister told me. Find clues.
Here we are. If what Sebastian said isn’t a clue, then I don’t know what is. A man who swore to his adopted mom to keep her dumb, dangerous, delinquent son safe, and followed through with that promise even if it landed him in deep waters.
Not ideal, but if this clue tells me something, it’s that Jarett’s heart is in the right place. It is a good heart, steadfast and true.
But is that enough?
“Where have you been?” Sydney throws herself on me the moment I approach the bar. “I looked everywhere!”
“I’ve only been gone a few minutes,” I mutter, still shaken, unwinding her arms off me. Sitting on the stool where I left my jacket earlier, I grab Nathan’s drink and swallow it. It burns going down, but it steadies me a little. “Sorry. I’ll buy you another.”
“Don’t worry about it,” he says with an amused smirk.
“What happened?” Sydney insists. “Where did you go?”
“Me? You disappeared and I went to look for you.” I don’t know if to tell her about Sebastian. I mean, nothing happened, not really.
He just shocked me, that’s all.
“I disappeared? You did! I peed. When I came out, you weren’t there. I checked all the stalls, called your name. So I came here, to see if you’d returned, but you weren’t, and I got so worried.”
Shit. I’d been so sure she’d left, I didn’t consider she might still be inside.
“Well, now you know how I feel every time you go off and leave me to wonder what happened to you,” I grouse.
“She goes off?” Weston asks, frowning.
Sydney makes shushing gestures to me that I ignore.
Not that I want to talk right now, about this, or anything else. It’s funny, though, and I huff a laugh.
What Sebastian said keeps spinning in my mind. Can I trust his words? He was high on something. Was any of it true? Was it just a story he made up on the spot?
But what purpose would it serve? Too elaborate of a twist just to put Jarett down.
So now I know he joined the gang to keep an eye on Sebastian. And more importantly, I know why he won’t leave the gang. How can he, if he promised to stay and keep an eye on his stupid asshole of a brother?
God.
“Are you okay?” Sydney asks, popping up right beside me. “You’d tell me if something happened, right?”
I nod, distracted.
“Good.”
“What about your mission?”
She shushes me. “Tonight it’s a no go. I’ll explain why another time. Talk to me about Jarett.”
“What?” I start, because of course he’s all I can think about right now.
“Jarett. Any news on that front?” She gestures to the bartender for a drink, then turns back toward me. We’re wedged between her guys, and normally I’d feel weird leaning against one of them—I mean, I barely know them—but I don’t give a damn.
