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I turned to look at her, my eyes narrowing. ”Don't do it again,” I said, an edge creeping into my voice. I wanted to tell her that it was okay that she was worried about her brother, but even with the killer gone, I knew better than to trust anyone else.
Once Sofia wrote her true crime exposé, she might become anyone's target. It wasn't like she would give it up. I knew what was coming next: the endless probing into her own life.
Which meant endless probing into mine.
Regardless of my extracurricular activities, I'd always been good at keeping a low profile. Keeping my head down was something I excelled at.
With her in my life, I realized it was no longer going to be possible.
And it didn't matter.
I wanted her.
Even if it meant that my life was about to get a lot more complicated.
She edged her chair closer to me, her hand on mine. ”I won't do it again,” she said softly. ”I promise.”
Chapter Thirty-Three: Sofia
Iheldbackagrimace as I watched Teo slowly make his way across the living room of HQ. It had been two months and his doctors said his recovery was going to take a while, but watching him struggle to drag himself across the living room of this apartment when his presence had filled it made my chest tighten.
He picked his head up to look at me.
”It’s oka–”
”Don’t fucking say it’s okay,” he replied between gritted teeth. ”I know it’s not okay.”
”Right. But it’s better than it was.”
He sighed. I was right and we both knew it. When he had been discharged, his leg couldn’t bear any weight.
But now, he was slowly regaining his strength. The bullet wound had healed, but the pain still lingered.
”I’m not useless, you know,” he said, his voice laced with frustration. ”I can still do things.”
”I never said you were useless,” I replied, trying to soothe him. ”But you need to take it easy for now.”
”I’ve been taking it easy for two months,” he said, his voice rising in anger. ”I’m sick of this. I need to get back to work.”
I took a deep breath, trying to remain calm.
”Teo--”
”Boss, you almost died,” Grayson, who had been sitting quietly on the couch pretending to read a book, finally said. ”You need to take your recovery seriously.”
Teo quieted down, his face darkening for a second. We hadn’t spoken about how things were between the two of us, but Teo always took Grayson seriously, and Grayson hadn’t said a word about this until now.
I had been frustrated by it at first, but as my gaze flitted between the two of them, I could see that Grayson’s move had been calculated.
Teo sighed. ”You’re right,” he said. ”You’re right, I just feel like I’m going crazy. I don’t know how much longer I can handle this.”
”Come,” I said, scooting away from the middle of the couch so Teo could sit next to me. ”Have a seat.”
He sat between us, the couch moving under his weight.
He buried his face in his hands for a second, a rare moment of vulnerability around us. I wondered if he would do the same thing if Jace and Victor were around, but I immediately realized that he wouldn't.
”I just feel like everything's spiraling,” he said. ”I don't know what's going to happen after the police question Jace.”
