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“’Cause any call might bethatone,” I replied. “What’s up?”
“How good are you at moving couches?”
I frowned. “Couches?”
“Yeah,” he said. “Tati needs some people to help her get moved into her new place. We’re still in the process of vetting everybody again, and I don’t want a bunch of randoms around her yet, inked or not.”
New place?
I hadn’t heard shit about it until now, but it wasn’t as if there was a newsletter about everything that went on with Tati. After that moment in her kitchen, I’d been keeping my distance, not wanting to lean into anything I shouldn’t.
Andthatdefinitely qualified.
“Me either,” I agreed with Blue. The kind of predator that Kev was had to be surgically weeded out or it would spread like a cancer.
“I knew we’d be on the same page. So you’re coming through, right?”
Shit.
So much for keeping my distance.
“What time you need me?” I asked, knowing it would spark questions I didn’t care to answer if I turned down the request. Blue and Tati were close like siblings, but I had no clue if she’d told him what had happened between us.
So far, my best guess was that she hadn’t.
“Now, if Keira or Ozzy don’t have you on something else,” he said. “Or shit, I guess you do have a life outside our shit too, huh?”
I laughed, cause… not really.
I hadn’t been around Tati, but I was fully enmeshed with thePredators, to the point that the “vacant”placard on the door of the tiny bedroom I’d semi-claimed at the bunkhouse had my name on it now.
Keira’s doing, not mine.
Truthfully, I was worn out from being on the court all morning with Isaiah, which had been the goal in the first place, so I was too tired when I passed out tonight to experience the usual nightmares that morphed from my dreams.
I hadn’t had the whole picture when I’d shown up to accept his invitation to “come shoot around”. I knew now though that this was his actual job, one he’d picked up with Ace’s dude, Cree. It was a – cool as fuck – community center situation that put him in position to intervene for kids that were eerily similar to the kind of kidswe’dbeen.
Young, wild, and in need of structure.
In need of somebody who gave a fuck.
“Nyx, you there?”
Shit.
“Yeah, sorry, I can come through,” I answered, knowing I still had a bit of energy left in the reserves.
“Cool,” Blue said. “Just come by Tati’s.”
“Bet.”
Once we’d hung up, I looked over to where Isaiah was back and had started gathering his stuff.
“You got somewhere to be?” he asked and I nodded. “Good, now I don’t feel bad for kicking your ass out of here.” He laughed. “I need to go relieve my old lady—baby duty.”
I grinned. “Would you ever have imagined saying some shit like that ten years ago?”
“Only in my most impossible daydreams,” he said, extending a fist in my direction.
