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I burst out laughing at that, regretting it immediately.
“Shit, sorry.”
“No, it’s okay. It’s my fault. I forgot.” I don’t think I’ll be forgetting again anytime soon.
“If they didn’t send you, why are you here?”
“I’m curious about you.”
“You’re curious about me?” I frown.
“Mm-hmm…”
“What are you, the Cheshire cat?”
“Otherwise known as Apex’s IT guy.”
“Do Oz and Zig know you’re here?”
“Nobody does.”
My stomach somersaults at that.
“Crap, I didn’t mean for it to sound like that.”
“Okay, tell me why you’re here exactly. And if you try anything, know I will squeeze your balls off while I scream loud enough to pop your eardrums.”
He cups his dick and blanches. “I want to get to know you. Or I did until you threatened my dick. Now I’m not so sure.”
“Why? If you wanted to know something about me, you could just ask Creed and Hawk.”
“They’re surprisingly tight-lipped about you. They were destroyed when you left.”
I laugh at that, ignoring the pain as my new friend morphine skips through my bloodstream. “Sure, they were. I bet they cried all over you.”
He frowns at me, leaning forward until his arms rest on the bed. “I’m not blowing smoke up your ass here, Avery. I might have joined Apex after you left, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t witness some of the fallout. You broke their hearts. There have been no women for either of them since you’ve been gone.”
“They tell you that?” I huff.
“It’s not a secret. They never bring women home—never even mention them. There is only you.”
“Look, you seem like a nice guy, E. But just because you don’t see them with other women doesn’t mean there aren’t any.”
He’s quiet for a minute, and I think he’s conceding my point until he speaks again. “You left them, Avery,” he says softly.
“Did I?”
He frowns, his eyes moving over my face in question, not that it will help him. One of the flip sides of my ability is that I can lie with the best of them. I have zero tells and know exactly what to say or how to say it to make it believable. I just don’t do it. Something about it makes me feel dirty.
Besides, hearing lies day in and day out is exhausting. It made me much more eager to tell the truth, and if that’s not an option, I won’t say anything at all. I just wish everyone had learned that skill.
“Did something happen to you, Avery?”
I laugh, but it doesn’t stop the tears from flowing once more. I turn away from E—the pain in my shoulder almost nonexistent, I love morphine—and close my eyes.
“It doesn’t matter anymore, E. It’s in the past.”
“If that’s true, then why did you come back?”
