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“It’s not that great,” she hurried on to say, aiming to lessen the blow she’d landed. “Life’s a bitch, and then you… well. You know the rest.”
And then, as if she had said some kind of magic word, an idea popped right into the front of Bunny’s mind.
“That’s it!” she gasped, making Death frown and look at her the same way Stuart the security guard had looked at her when she said she’d seen a strange dude in black wandering around Arcadian Waters in the middle of the night.
“It is?”
“Yes.” She felt adrenaline shoot through her like liquid electricity, thrumming through her veins. It gave her a much-needed revitalization, and she looked at him with a gleam of determination alight in her blue eyes. “I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before! The autopsy was inconclusive, but I think I know why.” She pursed her lips, running through the beginnings of a plan in her mind, before she glanced at him. “Are you still mad at me?”
Death blinked, his head tilting ever so slightly to one side. “I was mad at you?”
“Yes,” Bunny scoffed, annoyed that he was trying to pass it off. “The other night at my place you were acting all weird, and then you were like, ‘I have to be in other places’, and then you left.” She shrugged, deciding that if he could pretend he wasn’t mad about their interaction, then she could, too. “Figured you were mad.”
“No. I was busy fulfilling my quota and left you to work on yours.” he said matter-of-factly, looking her in the eye with the same kind of measured efficiency she’d seen from him a hundred times before.
And then it hit her in the gut like a sucker-punch from her sixth grade bully.
He saw her as a work colleague. Nothing more.
“Work,” she said, picking the one word from that mortifying realization she could get away with saying until she forced her brain back into action. “Right. Whatever—doesn’t matter.” She shook it off, figuratively and literally. There was plenty of time later to feel embarrassed for thinking Death had actually been flirting with her.
“Look. I think I know how to work out what happened to my mom.” She forced herself to meet his eyes, unable to disguise the hope he would surely see there. “Can you meet me after I finish my shift?”
“Only because I’m curious.” He smirked.
