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AJ lifted her hard gaze to me, and I sighed.
“We don’t know,” she admitted, echoing my thoughts.
“You’ll take care of her, right?” Becca asked me, fixing me with a venom laced stare that made me pause. I understood that she was pissed about what happened at BH, and that AJ was being swept up in all this, being out in danger, but there was more than worry there. There was hate.
And then it was gone, erased with Ava Jade’s short laugh at her friend’s demand.
“Themtake care ofme?” she said, grinning at her friend. “Don’t worry, Becks. I don’t need anyone to take care of me. I’ll be back before you know it.”
Becca’s expression darkened, but she nodded. She really was in a foul mood. I hoped her boyfriend called her back soon. Otherwise, I was afraid her claws would only get longer. Her bite, harder.
“All right, then,” AJ said, snatching a faded jean jacket from the back of the chair Becca was sitting on, sensing the tension in the air and wanting to leave before it got any thicker. “Don’t wait up. Keep everything locked. You remember how to use that blade I left you?”
“Stick ’em with the pointy end,” Becca replied, miming a stab gesture that needed alotof work. AJ laughed at that.
“And the other part?”
“Stab first, ask questions after.”
“You’re going to be a pro in no time.”
Becca waved us off after Corvus honked for the second time. “Go already before he blows a fucking fuse.”
Ava Jade checked the door twice before we left to make sure it was locked and secure. She checked the garage door and the front door, too, wistfully tilting her head up to the small illuminated window set above the garage doors, worry creasing her forehead.
“She’ll be okay. Corv installed all those new cameras. If you want, I’ll put the app on your phone on the way there. That way you can check them whenever you want.”
She smiled at me with her hand on the door handle to the back seat. The first smile I’d seen from her in a week. “Can you?”
“Yeah,” I said and held the door as she slid into the seat next to Rook, who was staring out the window like the trees themselves might grow claws and fangs and come for his girl.
I cleared my throat, nudging the back of the passenger seat. “Corv, can you drive?”
“What the fuck for?” he growled.
“I’m going to put the app for the cameras on AJ’s phone.”
He grunted. “Give it here,” he said, holding out his hand for AJ’s phone without turning around. “I’ll do it for her.”
She hesitated, but reluctantly unlocked her phone and placed it into his hand, sitting up straighter in her seat to watch over his shoulder.
Either she had something to hide or she wanted to see if he would try snooping so that she could give him hell.
My skin bristled at the former option, wondering if there were any new messages between her andKit.
I clenched my jaw as I circled the Rover and hopped into the driver’s seat, pulling us out on the road.
“Nothing more from the stalker?” Corvus asked in a tone that I knew was trying hard to sound casual and not demanding but failed on all counts.
“Nope,” AJ replied, popping thep.
Turned out the last message Ava Jade deleted before reading the whole thing was just that first line. Recovering it and decrypting it was a total waste of time.
But seeing the three words for myself was enough to make my blood boil anew.
I warned you…
Hewarnedher? Ha! Motherfucker was a dead man walking.
