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Their phones blew up,and it was a welcome interruption after the conversation we’d just had. After I agreed to let one of them stay with me here, a terse quiet had fallen.
I hated it.
It felt unnatural.
Something between us all had been broken, and I didn’t know if it could be fixed. Still wasn’t sure I wanted it to be. But what I told them was true. I didn’t have any place else to go. Lennox was the last place I wanted to go back to, but where else in this world was there a place for me?
With the so-called best friend who betrayed me?
With my female Hitler of an aunt?
This was the only place I’d felt like I’d fit in so long I had to wonder if I ever felt like I fit anywhere else before this.
“What is it?” I asked as they all read the messages on their phones, noticing how their faces had turned stony.
Rook dropped his phone into my lap and I glanced between it and him before picking it up to read the message on the screen.
Diesel: We have a meet with the Aces tonight. Sending details and location later. Be ready for 10 pm.
Diesel: Becca Hart got on a plane this morning to Europe, but we need her back here. She’s our only source of intel on the piece of shit who was trying to make a move on you. Make it happen.
“I’m coming with you tonight,” I decided, rising from the couch to go and discard my mug in the kitchen sink. Feeling Grey’s eyes on my ass as I walked.
“I don’t think that’s—”
“I wasn’t asking. I’m a Saint now, remember?”
Grey nudged Corvus’ arm, giving his head a little shake. Telling him not to push this right now. I was willing to bet he would try to convince me to stay behind later. He wouldn’t have any luck.
I needed to speak to his father. I needed to make a couple of things clear if I was going to even try to stay in Thorn Valley.
Corvus’ nostrils flared. “Fine,” he growled. “Are you coming to class?”
I lifted my head to the clock on the kitchen wall and sighed, the word fuck silently forming on my lips. There was already lots of noise in the hallway outside. Classes would be starting in barely twenty minutes.
“We can pick up your assignments,” Grey offered, and I looked at him curiously for the second time this morning.
He was giving me this weird vibe. Like he was stepping on eggshells. Tip-toeing around me. It wasn’t like him.
The air was still charged with everything said and not said. It felt fragile, like even the smallest push would send everything we’d built tumbling down to ruble and ash. I wondered if he felt it, too. If he were afraid of what might happen if he pushed too hard.
“No, I’ll go,” I decided. “I don’t need another absence right now.”
Really, I didn’t need to deal with more angry texts from my psycho aunt right now. No wonder my dad never talked about her. But more than that, I wanted the distraction.
“Rook?” Grey asked, and I watched the exchange between them, wondering why Grey was offering to pick up his assignments. Why he assumed Rook wasn’t going to class.
His dark eyes betrayed nothing, but he gave Grey a tight nod, lifting his gaze to me. “Mind if I stay here?”
“Uh…sure. I guess.”
He leaned back on the couch, lifting his legs to cover the area where I’d just been sitting, laying his head on the armrest. His forearm lifted to cover his eyes.
“I’ll meet you guys down there,” I told the other two, going to change.
“We’ll wait,” Corvus decided for them both. “Hurry up.”
Don’t stab him. Don’t stab him.
