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“Okay,” I shrugged.
Riel’s eyes narrowed.
“Come on,” Captain Morgan ordered, gesturing to me. “You can come keep ol’ whiner over here
company.”
Captain Morgan grabbed my purse that I had sitting on the counter and left, leaving me no choice
but to follow.
“Whiner?” I asked quietly.
“Apparently I bitched and moaned too much about coming here,” he muttered darkly as we
walked toward the seat.
There was already a chick putting the extra leaf in the table, and another pulling up an extra chair.
I was sat on the end between Riel and a woman that I should know the name of but didn’t.
I sat down and offered her a smile.
“I should know your name,” I admitted as I reluctantly took my seat. “But I can’t remember.”
She smiled sadly. “My name is Piper. I grew up with Luca.”
I nodded once.
That was where I knew her.
Luca had a lot of friends that he’d grown up with, and if I wasn’t mistaken, Piper had a twin and a younger sister that looked exactly like her.
“Nice to see you again,” I lied.
It wasn’t nice to see her.
In fact, it brought up the painful memories of the last time that I had seen her.
Luca had taken me to a party at the ‘compound.’ The place where the men of Free and their
families had lived. I’d met a ton of people that day, and Piper, if I wasn’t mistaken, had been a major influencer in Luca deciding to sign on for another four years of service to the Navy.
And look where that got him.
I shut off that vicious thought in my head, knowing that it would take me nowhere good.
Seriously, if there was one thing that I knew I didn’t need to do, it was play the blame game.
Piper didn’t realize that she’d influenced Luca at all.
And even then, Luca was a grown-ass adult when he’d re-upped.
Piper nodded her head soberly.
“It’s good to see you looking well.” She nervously fidgeted with her shirt.
I did snort at that.
