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“Is it making you jealous?” He smiled. It was beautiful and made his grey eyes sparkle with an almost surreal silver touch, which against his almost black hair was always spellbinding and it could normally lure me to him as the stupid moth goes to the flame. Not today though—never again.
“Nope, I’ll let you get on with it,” I said, smirked and turned to the sound of two glasses being placed on the bar.
“Two vodka cranberries,” the bartender said, pushing the two glasses filled with pink liquid in front of me. “Seven fifty please.”
I reached across to flash my card on the scanner. Carter’s hand stopped me. “I’ll get them.”
“No,” I hissed.
He glared at me and said, “Clay asked me to look out for you.”
My eyebrows furrowed at the nerve. “I’m an adult. I can look after myself.”
Carter sighed and turned his attention to the bartender. “Have you checked her age?”
“She showed her university ID to get in, which puts her over the age of eighteen.”
“You’re an arsehole, Carter,” I shouted over the chorus of the very loud tune and the patrons of the pub as they erupted into song.
“She’s a year ahead, she’s seventeen,” he shouted as he leaned over the counter to the bartender.
I saw a tinge of green sweeping over the bartender’s face as he stared at me.
“I’m eighteen,” I said.
He tilted his head and gave me a puckered smile. “Sorry, I need to see your ID.”
I pursed my lips and let out a long, frustrated sigh. Opening my iPhone case, I pulled out my driver’s licence and handed it to the bartender and watched as he walked away and studied my card. He returned and handed me the card and tutted as he shook his head at Carter before he turned to me with a smile. “Happy birthday sweetie, I’ll get those drinks for you.”
My grin was so wide I could kiss him, but not sure how the lip ring and tongue stud would feel in my mouth. “Thank you, but unnecessary,” I said and quickly swiped my card across the card reader.
After putting my card in my case, picked up my drinks and glared at Carter. “Now leave me alone so I can get pissed on my birthday,” I said, pushing past him.
Chapter 7
Seb
Carterreturnedfromthebar, seriously pissed off. His mouth in a rigid line, his jaw clenched, and his eyes flickered with silver flares.
Lacey wasn’t making it easy for him, and he wasn’t used to it. In fact, this was the first time I’d ever seen this happen to him. Carter wasn’t the type of guy that girls refused, and I saw with every glance he made how obsessed he was with her.
Not that I could tell him he was wasting his time. But he was—soon he would know the truth.
“She is so fucking stubborn,” he yelled over the music, picking up his drink, taking a gulp and slamming the glass on the tabletop. I wasn’t sure how it didn’t smash into tiny pieces.
I differed from Carter; we were similar in build and height, both dark-haired, but I was darker-skinned and darker eyed. But apart from being friends, going back years from our Knight training days, as did the other guys, that’s where our similarities ended.
Because I watched him as he spoke to another female, making what he thought were secret glimpses towards Lacey. And when the girl leaned to him for a kiss, he raised his glass to his face to deflect her and yet he still didn’t ask her to leave. He didn’t want this girl, but he was foolish enough to try to make his ex jealous. But Lacey wasn’t looking, and he didn’t like it.
I got it—she was definitely different from others.
But then I already knew that.
I probably knew more than everyone else, because I remembered every damn thing regardless of what Angel Raphael threatened. But I had a feeling this was only me and I wasn’t about to help anyone else remembering. This time, I hoped the other people from her past lives didn’t recall a damn thing.
Kanael, now known as Kane was one of the two and he gave no sign he remembered and considering his status previously, that was surprising. He was a changed man in this life, deep as the Mariana Trench, and I wasn’t sure there was anyone out there who would ever understand him.
Carter was a not one of her angels, he was purely magical but it seemed Lacey Summer was his kryptonite, and I had a feeling she would bring him to his knees. But was Carter the Dark King? I doubted it but in this life everyone was on my radar.
