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“I was just looking for it.”
She pointed to the cabinet in the opposite corner and slumped down in a chair, resting her chin in her hand.
“Rough night?”
“You could say that,” she grumbled. “Little fucker wouldn’t let me sleep.”
“Oh, you have a kid?”
She nodded, but didn’t actually say anything.
“Is he teething or something?”
She frowned. “No, he slept through the night. It was my husband that was making life difficult.”
Well, that made so much more sense. “What happened?”
She snorted, her eyes drifting shut the longer she sat there. “What didn’t happen?”
That was vague, but I wasn’t about to press the issue since I didn’t know this woman. “I don’t think we’ve met. I’m?—”
“Honey,” she finished for me.
Yeah, something like that. It seemed everyone knew who I was, but I didn’t know any of them.
“So, you met FNG at a bar?” she asked, squinting at me.
“Yep. It was…interesting.”
“Why’s that?”
“Well, let’s just say he’s not exactly the type of man I fall for,” I said, grabbing the coffee. I desperately needed it to survive this day.
“And what is your type?”
“Not tall, dark, and dangerous.”
She huffed out a laugh. “Dark? I mean, he’s definitely tall and dangerous, but I wouldn’t call him dark.”
“Then you haven’t seen him in action.”
That perked her up a little. “Actually, when I first came here, FNG was on the team that saved my life. He’s quite eclectic.”
“I’m sorry, I didn’t catch your name.”
“Eva.”
“So, you didn’t come here of your own free will?” I mused.
“Not even a little. I pretty much fought it every step of the way.”
I walked over and sat down beside her as the coffee brewed. “You said he was on the team that saved your life. What was he like?”
“Weird. I don’t know how else to describe it.” She bit her lip as she thought about it. “The man really can’t die.”
“Is that a joke?”
“Nope. Absolute truth. There was a time when we thought he died. Several, actually,” she laughed. “This one time, he was fighting these guys who were in a vehicle racing after me. He actually handed one of the other guys an umbrella as a weapon.”
