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Crux jammed his hands into the pockets of his sweats. “Don’t bullshit me. Nobody will tell me what’s going on, but I know it’s bad.”
A virtual keyboard popped up in front of Logan. “They’re just trying to keep you safe until your transition. Be a kid while you can. You have a five-hundred-year lifespan, and that means four hundred and seventy-something years of adulthood. Play video games and watch junk on TV. Things will get hectic soon enough.”
“Everyone tells me that.” Crux shot him the finger and a droll look. “Got something original?”
Busted. “No. Sorry, kid. I got nothin’.” He started typing out a message to Eva.
“Are you messaging that Aegi?”
How the hell had he known that? “I have some information she needs.”
“Oh. I liked her.”
Logan looked up. “Really?”
“Yeah.” He shrugged, his bony shoulders rolling under the oversized shirt. “I go to school with a lot of humans who don’t know I’m a demon because, well, you know.”
“Too well.”
Crux shrugged again. “She was cool, you know? I mean, after she got over Mace asking her if she wanted to fuck.”
The kid was twenty-two years oldanda demon, and Logan couldn’t help but want to scold him for using the f-word.
That was what happened when your mom was human.
“Yeah, she was cool,” Logan muttered as he marked the message as urgent and sent it off.
“You gonna see her again?”
“I don’t know,” Logan said.
“Do you want to?”
Logan didn’t even have to think about it. Because yeah, he did.
But would he?
Chapter Thirty-One
So, saying goodbye to Logan could have gone better. Way better.
And Eva had so many questions. Like, why was she not as excited to be back home as she should be? And why did she want to punch Maja in the face?
Well, she knew the answer to the latter question, but she considered the answer to the former as she and Maja trudged through one of the gazillion underground tunnels that ran under the streets of the nation’s capital. The walk so far had been mainly silent, but when Maja slowed and let the escort get a little farther ahead, Eva braced herself for questions she didn’t want—or know how—to answer.
“You okay?” Maja’s voice was quiet, but even so, the tunnel amplified it enough that those up ahead surely heard.
And would people stop asking if she was okay? It was yet another of those questions she didn’t know how to answer.
Finally, she settled on, “It’s just been a long couple of days.”
Maja nodded. “Sounds like things didn’t end well for you and Logan.”
Bingo. Stuff she didn’t want to answer. “What do you mean?” she asked, even though she knew.
“I heard you arguing,” Maja said. “Did you guys…?”
Eva let the question hang for longer than necessary. If she had to be uncomfortable, so did Maja. Who had also slept with Logan. Grr.
