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They were coming down with a little bit of Isobel in the form of shitting their guts out thanks to the goodness I had dripped into their coffees on the way to the shop.
Ariel Kimber was going to hold those stupid pot brownies against me until the day I died despite the fact Rain didn’t give a shit about it. I saw the way she and her bodyguards eye fucked each other all the time, I wasn’t stupid.
This was me giving her a real reason to hate me, and if she found out about this, she for sure would hate me for it. I was beyond the point of caring.
Until she apologized to Finn and me for being an asshole, I’d show her just how big of a psycho I really could be. And I wouldn’t feel bad about it either.
You see, watching Finn all throughout dinner last night as he attempted to hide his nerves when he’d never come across as nervous before really did a number on me. He wanted to be a part of this family we were building so badly that he made me realize something I didn’t think I had allowed to fully sink in before.
Even without Ariel and the Alexander coven, I still had my very own family.
My family had been sitting around me at Romero’s dinner table last night.
Romero.
Rain.
Baxter.
And Finn.
That was my family. They were my future.
If Ariel Kimber wanted to be a part of that, then it was going to have to be her who had to prove herself worthy of it. Not the other way around.
I knew she loved her father, but this would be a test for her to show just how much and how far that love reached.
After she’d hurt me this last time, I wasn’t sure I’d be so welcoming to her when she apologized to me. And there was little doubt in my mind that she would because of the love she had for Rain. But I would never forget this, and I was sure there would always be a small part in the back of my mind that questioned whether she’d been genuine or whether she simply did what she had to in order make Rain happy and his life easier.
“Shit. There’s only one bathroom here, right?”
I coughed to cover up my snort. Uh, no, there were two bathrooms, but Rain must not have shared our private one with them. I hoped he didn’t share it with them now, because I didn’t need to be using a toilet that one of those fuckers destroyed because of my little gift.
Wouldn’t that be a quick dose of karma?
“Sorry,” Rain said, “but you’re going to have to run over to Fortunes to use their bathroom.”
“Shit.”
Indeed.
I didn’t bother to look up when the bell above the door jingled on his way out of the shop.
“That wasn’t very nice,” Rain growled from right behind me.
I knew I hadn’t fooled him, but I was thankful he hadn’t given me away.
I shrugged carelessly. “Why should I care? They already don’t think I’m nice, so now I’m just giving them a reason to actually think that about me. Arealreason.”
“You’re playing a dangerous game, and I want you to stop.”
I knew he’d feel that way, I just didn’t know I would care so much.
He wrapped his hand around my braids and tugged on them, pulling my head backwards. I looked up at him through narrowed eyes.
He gave me his dead eyes. I hadn’t seen those in a while.
“Baby, I’ll let you get away with a lot of shit because your crazy antics amuse me, and I never want to snuff out that spark you’ve got. But you need to step carefully with this. I know she hurt you, and this is your way of striking back. I even get why you’d want to do it, but I’m going to ask you to stop before you can do any more damage and you can’t come back from it. You love her. She loves you. I love you both. And, for me, will you please think about not burning this bridge to the ground? Not just for me, but for yourself as well.”
