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I turned to look at her. “How?”
“Gina.” Huck’s sharp command stopped whatever she was going to say.
She pressed her lips together, but said nothing.
I turned to look at Huck, who was standing behind the sofa with his arms crossed and his eyes on the television. He didn’t look at me or Gina.
“It’s time!” someone called out, and everyone’s eyes went to the television. It got quiet again.
Gina stood up, and I looked up at her. She nodded her head toward the kitchen, then turned to walk in that direction. I stood up and followed. I didn’t want to sit in here with strangers.
When I walked into the kitchen, I found Gina and one other woman I didn’t know. She looked to be in her mid-twenties and had long, dark hair that hung straight around her shoulders. She was drinking a beer and looking at her phone.
Gina took a tortilla chip from a bowl and dipped it in salsa. She looked over at me. “Get whatever you want,” she said before taking a bite.
The other girl looked up then and studied me for a moment. I smiled at her.
“Hi. I’m Maddy,” I said.
“I know,” she replied, then looked back down at her phone.
“Jesus, everyone knows who you are. Stop introducing yourself,” Gina said. “That’s Rose. She’s pissy tonight. Ignore her.”
I looked behind me to make sure Huck hadn’t shown up in here to stop me from asking a simple question. When I didn’t see him or anyone else, I turned back to Gina.
“How?” I asked her, knowing she’d understand.
She took another chip and waved it around in a circle. “You’re his,” she replied, as if that explained everything.
There was that possessive-belonging thing again. I didn’t belong to Blaise. Currently, I wasn’t sure I would ever come back to this place or have anything to do with Blaise. He’d been gone for half an hour now.
I wished I hadn’t left my phone in the damn cave. I could call Trev since I didn’t want Saxon getting in trouble with his parents. He could pick me up at the gate. I felt insignificant and abandoned.
I glanced at the phone in Rose’s hand, then looked at Gina.
“Do you have a phone?” I asked her.
Gina raised her eyebrows at me and smirked. “Yeah, and I’m not handing it over to you so you can call the Houston kid to come get you.”
I smiled, impressed she was so close to my idea. “I wasn’t going to call him. I was going to call Trev,” I replied.
She laughed then and shook her head. “I wish you would. That would be epic. But it’s not happening on my phone. I know better,” she said, then took another chip while laughing some more. “God, Rose, could you see it? Trev showing his ass up here to take her away?”
I looked over at Rose, and she was smirking now as she looked down at her phone. Maybe she’d let me use hers. I started to open my mouth, and she lifted her gaze to meet mine and shook her head.
“Who is she?” I asked Gina.
Gina frowned and picked up her glass. “You talking about Angel?” she asked me in a whisper.
“Of course she is,” Rose replied while tapping away on her phone.
I nodded, finding myself relieved that he didn’t call her angel as an endearment. It was her actual name.
“I don’t think I can talk about that,” she said, still whispering.
“Not if you want to live,” Rose replied.
Gina glanced at the other woman and nodded in agreement, then went back to eating chips.
