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The breeze coming off the ocean saidno thanksand messed my hair up in a second again.
“What are you doing out here, love?” Atlas whispered.
“Thinking,” I said. “Hannah and I had something to eat. Tacos and tequila. Well, no tequila for me. Just some badass water with lime in it. The bartender was someone she sort of knew. So…”
“A guy?”
“Yeah.”
“Your best friend bailed on you to get laid?”
“Nope. I told her to go get laid. I told her I was going for a walk and then I was going to head home. I’ve been walking for ten minutes and she texted me five times already. She’s afraid a shark is going to swim in to shore and eat me.”
“Does she really think that?”
“It’s Hannah,” I said. “Who knows what she really believes or not.”
“You know, I don’t like you walking alone,” Atlas said.
“So then do something about it.”
Atlas turned and faced the way I was walking.
His right hand grabbed my left hand.
He started to walk.
I went with him.
And there we were, walking along the beach, holding hands.
A moment that should have been pure magic and romance, but it felt anything but.
“Now I get to ask why you’re walking alone on the beach in the dark,” I said.
“Oh, that’s easy. There was a bar fight and I had to get away from it.”
I stopped. “What the hell? Are you being serious?”
Atlas looked down at me. “Yeah. Why?”
“A bar fight? Didn’t I just bail you out of jail not too long ago for that same thing?”
“Yeah,” he said.
“And you think that’s okay? Just a normal thing for you?”
“I didn’t start any fights. I didn’t even finish any fights. I actually kind of broke things up and then got out of there.”
“Oh, wow. So you’re all high and mighty now? Above the conflict?”
Atlas half smiled. “Want to know what caused thealmost-fight?”
“Let me guess. A woman.”
“Kind of.”
“Kind of a woman?”
