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She doesn’t return it. “What’s she doing here?”
“I think we should talk in private,” Dante says, taking her by the elbow.
“Don’t start patronizing me, Dante,” she says.
“Don’t force me to.”
“You’re so Arras sometimes. It disgusts me.” She practically spits the insult at him.
I step toward Erik until I feel his hand on my back. Things are getting ugly pretty fast.
“Falon, a word.” Dante reiterates his request. After a pause he adds a hesitant, “Please.”
They walk a few paces off. It’s noisy enough here with the steam and activity that we can’t hear them.
“What was that about?” I ask Jax, who shifts from foot to foot nervously.
“Dante didn’t message us that he was bringing you. He hasn’t been to the dock in weeks,” Jax explains.
“Because of me,” I say with a sigh.
“How did you know Falon?” Erik asks beside me.
“Jost and I ran into her the night we arrived on Earth. She came to see about the ship I took down.” I relate Falon’s warning from that night to Erik.
“You didn’t think to mention this to me?”
“I guess I sort of forgot with everything happening, and you and Jost were fighting.” Even as I make the excuses I know that’s what they are, despite the truth streaking through them.
“Security is tight between things with Kincaid and the Guild. It’s not your fault…” Jax trails off, wiping his palms on his pants.
“I thought you went with the mission,” I say to Jax, recalling what Dante said about Jax not being around.
“Nope, but I
’ve been here most of the time,” he says. Dante lied to me about Jax to cover up where he was really going. It’s a good enough reason to be dishonest, but it doesn’t sit well with me.
Falon and Dante are walking toward us, and neither looks happy. Dante tries to slip a hand into Falon’s but she avoids him. He settles for a quick squeeze of her shoulder, but the grim expression stays on his face.
“That explains that,” Erik mutters to me.
“Lover scorned,” I say.
“And then he shows up with a pretty girl after weeks of no contact,” Erik says.
“I’m his daughter,” I remind Erik.
“Do you think she knows that?”
Good point.
The whispers die on our lips as they come closer to us.
“I apologize for my rudeness,” Falon says. She offers her hand to Erik and they exchange formal introductions. “Dante has caught me up on everything.”
“Everything?” I ask, looking at Dante. Has he told her he is my father?
“Everything,” Dante says, pressing his lips together.
