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Ezra glances at his fingers and frowns before hooking his thumb toward my dining room. “And that’s the jacket he’s been looking for since last week. He even accused me of borrowing it without permission and losing it.”
“How do you know I don’t also have one?” I inquire, watching the scotch as I pour it into my glass.
“A leather jacket with the Asphalt Zombies patch on it?” he counters.
“Maybe I’m a member?” I suggest.
“Right,” he sarcastically agrees. “And I’m the King of Croatia.”
I purse my lips and tilt my head, conceding to his point. “I don’t know enough about Croatia to call your bluff.”
He tips his bottle at me. “I’m observant enough to call yours.”
“I haven’t been bluffing,” I clarify. “That is my favorite beer. I don’t wear pink. Riley and I are friends. Have been for a while. I do own a bigger freezer at another location. And he left his jacket here when he escorted me to an event that I had to have a date for.”
“What about—”
“No,” I snap. “That was your inch. Don’t take any more.”
“One inch is like zero satisfaction,” he mumbles as he lifts the beer to take a sip.
I sigh and walk out of the kitchen as I whisper, “I know. But I’m the one sharing right now, and that’s all I’m willing to give.”
The lock on my front door turns, and I briefly press my fingers into my eyelids in a very Kane manner. Ezra and I glare at the door, but for two completely different reasons.
“You said you weren’t fucking her,” Ezra says just as I grumble, “You couldn’t have called first?”
Riley chuckles at us from the doorway. “Nice to see you’re both playing nice.”
I want to strangle him.
“You are not sly,” I hiss. “I know what you’re doing.”
“I was letting the two of you spend some time together so you could see Ezra wasn’t going to be an issue,” he explains, wearing an infuriating smirk.
“Why would I be an issue?” his cousin asks, sounding almost offended.
Riot shrugs. “I brought you to a murder. And then left you with the killer.”
“Right,” Ezra drawls, sounding utterly disbelieving. “And you disposed of a body and didn’t tell her where you put it. Why am I the issue?”
“You aren’t,” the rule breaker assures him.
“Undetermined,” I murmur, my frigid gaze locked on Riley.
He grins at me, stirring more shit. “Here’s your laptop. I didn’t think you’d want it left in your car after all you went through to get it back.”
“Are you getting off on this or something?” I ask, irritation tightening my chest. “There were no free passes to talk about this.”
“Ezra will have questions,” he tells me.
“Yeah, Ezra has a question,” the elitist asshole chimes in. “Why would you kill a man for stealing your laptop?”
I make a frustrated noise as I lean against the wall. “He was supposed to unlock it for me, but he fell short in the skills department.”
“So, not your laptop?”
“No. I stole it from a cartel member.”
