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“Yes.Do whatever you need.”When Nash stood up, so did Archie.He wasn’t as dizzy as he’d been at first, but his body was beginning to hum with whatever Nash had done to him.When Nash headed for the three people in the corner, he told him to go to the back room and help the manager.He was nearly back there when he heard the sound of one pissed-off cat and then nothing at all.
“You can’t be back here.”Archie told the man making pizzas that the place was about to be robbed and that he needed for him to get out.“All right.I’m done here.This is the fourth time this place has been hit in a year.I’m not coming back.”
The man tossed his apron onto the half-finished pizza he’d been making and left by the back door.Alarms were still going off when Archie entered the office of the manager.The woman was sitting there with a gun to her mouth.Sitting down, she stared at him with her eyes full of falling tears.She pulled the gun out of her mouth long enough to tell him to go away.
“I can’t do that, I’m afraid.Please don’t do whatever you’re thinking of doing.”She said that she didn’t want to go to prison for someone else’s trouble.“No, I can see that.Where is your brother while you’re dealing with this shit here?”
“Dead.He decided to get himself killed and leave me hanging.Wait, how did you know I had a brother?Who’s been talking to you?”Archie told her that he had read her mind.Then he asked her why she thought that killing herself was going to help.“Great.A loony reading my mind.And it won’t solve anything, but I won’t have to deal with it either.I’m sick of being everyone—you know, I’m not even supposed to be managing this place.I’m just a waitress who started helping out the real manager when she was too drunk to care what happened here on a daily basis.Since I like to have a check and food in my belly, I took over.”
“That’s commendable of you.Brave too.Where is the manager right now?”She told him she didn’t know, but he came in to take the deposits to the bank at night.“No doubt after you’re closed.Are you sure that the money is getting to the bank?”
“No.And again, I don’t care all that much.I have the money witnessed by an off duty cop before I leave.He records it all for me, and then I email it to corporate and to both him and myself.I might be a waitress, but I know how to cover my ass when I need to.”He grinned at her, and she cocked a brow at him.“I don’t know what you think might be funny, mister, but I have shit going on, and you’re not helping me get to the end.”
“My brother, you’ve not met him as yet, but he’s taken care of the problem in the lobby for you.I don’t know what he did—I know that I would have killed them, but then Nash has a better head on his shoulders than I do most of the time.”She asked him to get out of her office.“Sure.But in the meantime, do you want to have dinner with me tonight?”
“No.Now leave me.”He did leave her, but he wasn’t sure that he’d be staying away.She was a spitfire, and he wanted to get to know her.Before he was to the dining area again, it hit him like a ton of bricks.He’d just met his mate.Turning to go back and talk to her more, he heard the sound of a gunshot before he reached her office.
“Christ.”
