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Niles looked up.
She cringed.
“Dahlia?”
He was up the steps very fast, slithering over them in that way of his. He could go really fast with his snake tail when he wanted.
Her phone was still ringing. She answered it. “Hello?” she put it to her ear.
He was approaching her. He put his phone to his ear. “Hello. I was worried about you. You’ve been here all along. Spying on me?”
“I guess.” She hung up her phone and put it in her pocket.
He hung up his.
They eyed each other.
He drew in a breath. “That’s Valdi’s ex-wife.”
“Oh,” she said. “Dr. Thalt?”
“Yeah,” he said. “Look, don’t spread it around or whatever, but they had a rough divorce. They’re fated mates, and they had to get a spell to extricate themselves. It’s a big, long story, and she’s… Valdi is engaged to someone else and she’s hurt about it and she’s been trying to get pregnant and…”
“You had sex with your best friend’s wife?”
“You heard the thing about the venom,” he said, sighing.
“But you did?”
“I mean…” He rubbed his forehead. “I told you about this, didn’t I? How I justdothese things?”
“You did,” she said, nodding, shoving her hands into her pockets.
“Hey, but she’s hisex-wife, and nothing happened tonight.”
She bit down on her lower lip. “Right.”
“You don’t believe me?”
“I didn’t say that.”
“Honestly, I don’t know that you have any right to be angry with me. Are you still my girlfriend? You don’t answer my texts. You don’t talk to me. We had the mind-blowing sex and you just…” He spread both of his hands.
“Yeah,” she said. “Sorry about that.”
“But you came here for a reason.”
“I…” She shrugged. “I might do therapy, like you were saying.”
“Oh,” he said.
“But, this… with us…” She shook herself. “I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m doing here.”
He swallowed. “This was a reconciliation attempt, though. Wasn’t it? And because Hiljd was here—”
“Idon’ttrust you,” she said. She winced. “I’m sorry. I know it’s not fair. I mean, after everything I let Tommy do, and you… I don’t know that you’ve done anything. But it just seems like something you’d do, actually, Niles. You would fuck her.”
“No, I wouldn’t.”
