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Rocketman was a doctor. Full-on and certified. You gleaned little bits of information about people when you hung around groups like we had. I didn’t know why a shadow fae decided to become an MD, and I didn’t know why he wasn’t still doing it in a hospital. But right now? I was glad he was here for my friend. “Good. But as a heads up, I don’t think you’ll be able to go home yet.”
She frowned. “Why?”
I filled her in. Yet another thing that was my fault. Maggie would have to come here too. I wasn’t going to risk her life or put her in danger, like I had Clementine. The dragoness might have to fend for herself for a week.
“I think Brian will be okay if I’m here.”
There were a few apartments for club members in the compound, in a building behind the clubhouse. I hadn’t been inside it, and from looking at it, it wasn’t the luxury our apartments had, but I doubted Silver let the members live in squalor.
“How long have you been together?”
She smiled, and even though she was beat all to hell, it lit up her face. “Not long.”
“Both you and Jessie are here with guys and you didn’t even tell me.”
“We thought it might make you sad.”
I smirked. “Don’t worry. I’m not sad now.”
Silver and the others hadn’t told anyone else about me being theirâmmelune, and given how precarious things were, I wanted to be careful. “Let’s just say I’ll be sore, and not from dancing.”
Clementine laughed, waking up Puff. “It’s about time. Jessie and I were thinking about bringing in Maggie and staging an intervention. A woman can only go so long without sex before she shrivels up and dies.”
“My battery-operated friends did just fine.”
Staring at me, she said. “It’s not the same and you know it.”
Couldn’t argue with that.
She gently pulled Puff out of her hair and held her up, scratching her belly. “I’ll see if Brian will let me stay with him.”
“Silver already said you and Jessie are welcome. I’m going to see if there’s room for Maggie. If you know anyone in No Man’s Land, tell them to get out.”
Sighing, she handed Puff back to me. “Thankfully I don’t, except for you guys. But I will say, I’m not mad about this. Not No Man’s Land being destroyed, but the two groups finally just having it out. I’d love to see the Legion get their asses kicked. It’s been a long time coming.”
I briefly allowed myself to imagine what would have happened if they hadn’t rescued me that day. Or if the guys in the van had snatched me while I was in a panic. It made the nausea reappear in my stomach. “Me too.”
She turned toward me. “Don’t let me keep you in here. Especially now that I’m staying.”
I laughed. “You kicking me out?”
“I’m going to sleep a little, I think. Then hopefully Rocketman will get me patched up.”
“Call me if you need something, okay?” I grabbed her hand.
She squeezed it back. “I will.”
Puff rode my shoulder like she was a little angel. I needed a black-winged kitten for my other shoulder for balance. Then again, I already knew Puff was sassy enough to be both the angel and the devil.
What did I do now? It wasn’t like I had anywhere to be. I could unpack my apartment, but I couldn’t think of anything less appealing right now. My body was restless, despite the tension it went through this morning, and when I was tense, there was only one thing that made me feel better.
I crossed the plaza to my new studio, ready to dance.
* * *
Sitting against the wall, I watched Puff chase a small beetle across the studio floor. She wasn’t killing it, instead batting at it and jumping up like it might fight back. The poor beetle kept trying to run, changing directions, but never got far.
Give up, dude. Puff’s going to win.
