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I didn’t give her a chance to respond before padding across the white tile floor and through the glass doors toward the backyard, overlooking the granite infinity pool.
A small flock of birds chirped from a nearby ash tree, heightening my hunting instinct, if only for a second. Primal urges were primal urges, after all. Maybe that was why I was so smitten with the doe-eyed girl. I was being guided by something ingrained deep in my DNA over which I had no control.
“Here, Mr. Atlas,” Luve called, her lilting Spanish accent reaching my ears. I glanced over my shoulder as she neared, a cappuccino mug in hand. “There is a man at the door for you. He is from the casino.”
I frowned.
“Already?” I asked worriedly, accepting the cup.
She nodded. “El feo,” she added, grimacing.
I snorted and downed the coffee in one sip. I wouldn’t tell Virgil that she called him “the ugly one.”
“Send him back,” I instructed her.
Luve hurried to oblige my order, and a moment later, I found myself facing the guard, a flutter of abnormal nervousness touching my chest as I tried to read his expression.
“You delivered the message already?” I asked dubiously. “How?”
“I managed to catch up with her before she made it over the wall,” he explained. “There was no reason to enlist Gideon this time.”
I hadn’t anticipated that.
“I trust that you handled it better than you did when she came back to the casino,” I growled.
Virgil nodded vehemently. “Yes. Yes, of course. I reiterated word for word what you said, that the offer was not a joke, and that if she is interested, she is to report at midnight, but not a moment before and not for any other reason.”
I drew in a breath to still my nerves.
“And?” I demanded when he didn’t follow up.
“Well…” Virgil cleared his throat. “At first, I thought she was going to hit me.”
I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had.
“She didn’t.”
I continued to stare daggers at him to get on with it.
“She just looked at me for a minute, like she was trying to decide if I was pulling her leg or something. I told her that I required an answer, that you were waiting for a response.”
Time paused for half a second.
“She said she’ll be at the casino tonight,” Virgil concluded. “She wants the job.”
I exhaled and released a small chuckle as I set down my cup and clapped Virgil on the back.
“Good,” I laughed.
My pulse raced at the prospect of seeing Bianca again, and this time, I didn’t care what kind of fire I was playing with, having her so close. She was coming back. I’d get to inhale her tantalizing smell at least one more time.
Chapter9
Bianca
Stupidly, I was chasing the high of being caught by Virgil on the way back to Forny, the giddiness overtaking my common sense as I slipped back over the walls toward Jesse’s compound, a grin painted on my face as I realized that my initial take on the immortal wolf had been right.
Hedidwant me as much as I wanted him. Why did he deny me? I didn’t know. Maybe he was playing a game with me, but it was a game I had a chance of winning if he was sending his security chasing after me, almost begging me to take this job.
