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“You’re my friend. Of course I would!”
“I know.” I push the cup back toward him. “Drink your coffee. Nothing happened.”
He growls. “Spill, Sawyer.”
“Fine, fine. One of them came by and decided to rearrange the books at the back.”
A blank space in time. A beat of thundering silence.
Ronin squints at me. “And?”
“And I got mad! I have my system. It’s working great.”
“What do you mean? Did he play the alpha card on you? Alpha-splaining things?”
I shrug. “Not exactly.”
He finally relaxes. Drinks some more coffee. “You’re serious about your organization system, huh?”
“Like you wouldn’t believe. I don’t think he cares about books. He’s like you.”
“Hey,” Ronin says mildly. “I read.”
“Not only mangas.”
“Mangas are perfectly good books.”
“I know,” I mutter. “It’s fine. Forget it.”
“Sawyer…”
“That was uncalled for. Sorry. I…”
The door of the café opens, and someone walks in. I watch him out of the corner of my eye as I wash the rag under the faucet, then wring it out. He has stopped in the middle of the café, looking around. The place is empty right now. A dead hour. He’s well dressed, in a dark suit. With his dark hair and square jaw, he looks like a model who just walked out of the pages of a magazine.
Wait… he looks kinda familiar.
“What is it?” Ronin turns to look, his frown returning. “You have that look on your face again. Who is that guy?”
“What look?” I say, then freeze when I recognize him. “Oh, shit. It’s the alpha from the bar!”
“Huh. Really? The asshole is back?”
“No, not the tattooed alpha who pissed me off. The other, the one he kissed.”
“You were really paying close attention to them, huh? For a bunch of nobodies, they did well.”
“What are you talking about?” I breathe.
“Well, you said you weren’t watching anybody. You said?—”
“Shush. I’m going to talk to him.” Wiping my hands on a dish towel, I walk around the bar and over to the guy.
“But… why?” Ronin asks from behind me.
Why, indeed. It’s just that, I’ve never seen this guy around. And the odds of him calling in so soon after I saw him at the bar with the annoying, tattooed alpha are stacked against it being a coincidence.
As in… why did he come looking for me?
