AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“A realtor, eh?”
“Yep. My dad’s girlfriend. She’s getting her license transferred here. So she could probably find you something affordable.”
“Owning is cheaper than renting.”
“It is. And you’re not commitment phobic like me so I think it would be a good move for you.”
“Alright, cool. I’ll let you know. So how are things with you?”
“Not bad. I’m ...” I start to tell her I’m seeing someone but I don’t know if that would be insensitive. “I’m good.”
“Justgood?”
I shrug, take another sip my coffee. “Better than good.”
Devin leans her elbows on the counter, hitches her hip to the side. “Does someone deserve the credit for that?”
I laugh softly. “Maybe. I am seeing someone.”
“I rather figured. You have that new relationship glow about you.”
“I do?” I wrinkle my nose, making Devin laugh.
“Yeah. You do.” She stares at me for a moment, hiding a little smirk, but seems genuinely happy for me. “I’m not at all surprised. When our relationship shit the bed I knew it was just a matter of time before you and Rigger hooked up.”
“What? Me and Rigger? Really?”
Devin nervously licks her lips. “It’s not Rigger?”
“No. It’s someone I met recently. You really thought … me and Rigger would hook up?”
“Not right away. But when I came to get the keys to my parents’ house and you were, you know, saying you needed to figure things out, I just assumed that’s who you would figure them out with.” She makes air quotes.
“But … why?”
Her eyes dart to the side and the front door chimes as a customer comes in. “I don’t know. There were these subtle signs. Like the way you two would look at each other sometimes. And the way you’d say his name when you talked about him. I didn’t think about it when you and I were together because you two had been friends for so long. But after your confession, I just assumed you two would wind up together.”
I let out a sigh and her eyes flick behind me. “I’ll be right with you, sir.”
“No problem. I’m still deciding.”
I grip my mug and sling my bag higher on my shoulder. “I better get to work and let you do the same.”
“I want to hear about this other guy. I mean, if you want to tell me,” Devin says, adjusting her beanie on her head. I feel good about this, about trying to be her friend.
“Sure. I’ll hang here for a while, if you get a break or something.”
“I won’t get a break till one and you’ll probably be gone by then. We could do lunch sometime?”
“Lunch would be good.”
I sit at a table near the window where I always sit, and check in at work. I’ve consumed at least half my coffee before I even get logged into my computer but my body needs it. Ben stayed at my place till after midnight and after he left, I could hardly sleep with so many things running through my mind. Worrying about Daddy possibly being gone over the holidays, meeting my half sibling tomorrow, all this shit with Rigger and Ben, and finding King and how that seems to have swiftly moved to the back burner. Like, I care about finding him still. But it seems less critical since Ben is trying for the same thing. I must really trust him to handle it.
I also can’t forget the fact that I left a wig hair behind when I snuffed Peter Snowden so I need to be extraordinarily cautious with King.
I’m anxious as hell about meeting Rigger tonight, too. I’m trying not to think about what he’ll say because if I do, I’ll end up planning my possible responses. I’ve invested so much time in planning things, mostly related to my kills, that I want to dial that back some. Just live in the moment. Take things as they come. It’s freeing as hell, to live like this. I know I can’t do it all the time but I want to try.
That afternoon I’m cleaning up the master bath when my phone rings.
