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Chapter Twelve
Rebel
Everyone is too damn...weird this morning. Raven looks green and she won’t meet Baxter’s eye. Jax is pensive. Thorn is downright hostile and Ace is whistling and grinning like all his Christmases just came at once.
I don’t get it, but I feel like I missed some serious shit going down last night. I open my mouth to ask – well, demand – that someone starts talking, but just as I do, Ace plops a massive greasy fry up down in front of me. Eat first, questions after I decide, picking up my cutlery to tuck in.
As I shovel food into my mouth, I watch the others more closely. The powers of observation have never been my strong point, but the more I look, the more I see. Thorn can’t take his eyes off Raven, but she’s avoiding his gaze. When she notices him staring at her, she blushes. Shit went down between them last night.
And Ace. He’s far too happy. Which makes me think he had a taste of Raven too. They don’t strike me as the sharing type though.
I’m just turning my attention to Jax, who is constantly on his phone, when Raven distracts me.
“Were you smoking last night?” she asks Baxter, affronted.
“No,” his response is terse.
“You stank of smoke when you came home. I can smell it all through the house, so why lie to me?”
The air thickens with tension. Even Jax puts his phone down and watches warily. What is going on?
“I don’t lie,” Baxter grinds out angrily from between clenched teeth. He looks fucking formidable but Raven doesn’t so much as flinch.
“I know what I smelt.”
“You’re mistaken.”
“Here you go, zarocenka.” Ace breaks the tension, beaming at Raven like she hung the fucking moon as he gives her
breakfast. Jax slams his phone onto the worktop.
“Zarocenka?” he barks.
I frown. I’ve not heard that word before. But then again, Ace is always coming up with weird terms of endearment. I wouldn’t be surprised if he just called her baby corn or some shit. I don’t know what’s crawled up Jax’s ass and died.
“Ja.”
“Since when?”
“Last night.”
“And is she aware?”
“Vprašal sem.”
“In English?”
“Rekla je da.”
“Hey! Want to let the rest of us in on this little tête à tête?” Thorn snaps just as I’m about to demand something similar.
“Maybe Raven should be the one to announce it,” Jax replies. But Raven looks as confused as the rest of us. Now Ace looks murderous.
“No.”
“Tell us, Raven, why is Ace so happy this morning?” Jax taunts unkindly. He sounds like a total bastard right now but I want to know what’s going on so I don’t say anything.
“I-I-I’m not sure,” she stammers but she’s blushing so I call bullshit.
