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“Nah.” Knox shakes his head. “I know a personal grudge when I smell one.”
“So you’re just going to talk about me like I’m not standing right the fuck here?” the girl asks, sounding ticked off.
No one stops to answer her, which makes her lips flatten into a thin line in irritation.
“You were just foaming at the mouth about St. James earlier tonight,” I point out to Gage, even though it feels like it might as well have been another day, considering how much has happened since then. Night has pretty much given up the ghost and turned into morning by this point. “We’ve got someone here already gunning for him. Someone who doesn’t seem like she’s gonna stop until he’s dead.”
“I’m going to kill him one way or another,” the girl called Ghost says forcefully, and when I turn to glance at her, that fierce light is back in her eyes.
It’s not an idle or empty threat.
She means every word of it, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make it happen. I can tell that much. She already ripped up her wrists and went up against me unarmed just to get out of our basement, and judging from the look of her, that’s probably not the hardest thing she’s come through to get to where she is now.
I raise an eyebrow at Gage as if to say ‘see?’ and he sighs and grits his teeth. I can tell it’s going against pretty much every instinct he has to let her walk out of here after everything, but he nods in the end.
I flash him a bright smile for his trouble.
“Fine,” he says. “She can handle this.”
“Oh wow, thank you,” the girl deadpans. “I’m so happy you’re willing to let me continue the thing I was going to do anyway. You’re all just too fucking nice.”
Finally, we all turn to look at her. She still has her arms folded, still looks guarded and tired as hell, but that doesn’t take away from how gorgeous she is even a little bit.
“You’re welcome,” I tell her cheerfully. I take a step closer and put a hand on her shoulder, massaging it a little as if that will relieve some of the tension coursing through her.
When she glares at me, I just wink back, flashing her my most winning smile.
“We’re not bad guys,” I continue. “Well… not all the time. We can work together on this.”
“We’re not working together,” Gage cuts in. “She’s going to make up for killing some fucker outside our club by killing Ivan for us. That’s it.”
I grimace, catching the girl’s gaze and chuckling. “He’s grumpy tonight. But the point is, it’s a win-win.”
It’s not quite a win for anyone yet, actually, since there’s still a chance Gage could change his mind and end her right here and now. A long moment stretches by, and I wait to see what he’ll do.
Finally, he lowers the gun, and the tension in the room eases up a little.
“You’re free to go,” he says, jerking his head at the door.
