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She visibly recoiled, and I frowned.
“What is it?”
She shook her head, clearly trying to play it cool even though I could tell something had really bothered her. “It’s just… Drake, I meanCarson… he had a set up almost exactly like this. Cameras and all.”
The comparison made the muscles across my back flex and strain, but I knew she didn’t mean anything by it. I just hated to have anything at all in common with the fucker. But if he had even half of the shit I had here set up, then he knew what he was doing.
“Sorry,uh,can you switch them to night vision? Might be hard to see much with these.”
She pointed to the ones around the side of the house and the others in the forest.
I tapped a few keys and changed the upper right camera to night vision, showing Rook’s kill shed and the rear ends of a few parked cars in vivid green light.
“Awesome.”
“Yeah?”
“Fuck yeah. I don’t know why, but anything night vision just gives me such a lady boner. So cool.”
I found myself smiling. “Yeah. Same.”
Shit.
“I mean, not about the lady boner, but… you know what I’m saying.”
She laughed nervously, pushing off her knees to return to standing, taking in my room as though it was the first time she was seeing it when we both knew that wasn’t true. She wandered to the shelving across the room, fingering the neat rows of manga before she stopped. I didn’t have to look to know she’d found one of my many hiding places.
Behind the manga, in a nook of carved out drywall, rested an old six shooter, loaded and ready to be fired if needed.
If she continued toward the closet, she’d find a go bag filled with money, a change of clothes, a fresh passport, a flare, and enough water and protein bars to last me several days. But she didn’t continue to the closet to find my hiding spot, she turned suddenly, sharply, clapping her hands together. “So, is there anything?”
I cocked my head at her, not understanding.
“Anything I can help with,” she amended, putting all her weight on foot before switching to the other one.
She was… nervous.
It became so utterly, painstakingly obvious, that my lips parted in surprise. I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen her like this. Vulnerable. Almost afraid.
Of what?
“Not really,” I found myself saying. “I have it all covered.”
“Oh.”
She bit her lip, her sea glass eyes darting to the door.
“But you can stay if you want.”
She visibly relaxed, her body heaving a sigh as a small smile pulled the edge of her mouth. “Only if I won’t be distracting.”
But she was already settling herself on my bed.
I laughed quietly to myself, tossing her the stack of letters Carson sent to Diesel. “Might as well make yourself useful. Want to sort those by date and then we can go through them? Make sure there’s nothing we can use.”
AJ snatched them up hungrily, seemingly eager to be helpful. She tucked her legs beneath her, chewing her bottom lip as she focused all her energy on the letters, quickly pulling them from the envelopes and beginning to sort them.
It was harder than it should’ve been to pull my eye from her and return to the screens in front of me, but I found her reflection in the monitor on the left. Despite her wish that I wouldn’t be distracted, I knew that wasn’t a possibility. Not with her on my bed. No more than a few feet away.
