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“Even if they had turned against you, you think they’d tell me? They know how close we are.”
“Maybe you overhear something then? Someone letssomethingslip while you’re out with Gunnar, taking care of business.”
“Maybe,” I conceded. “But it’s a big fucking maybe, Rixon.”
“I know.” He took one final sip from his coffee cup and placed it on the tray. “Something is going to go down. I can feel it. I want you to be ready for it, okay?”
“Okay.”
Rixon rose from his seat. “I won’t keep you, Nick. You have your own shit to think about.”
I rose and turned for the door. “I’ll see you later.”
In the kitchen, I found Molly sitting at the little four-seater table leafing through a magazine. She looked up when my boots hit the linoleum.
“Going so soon?”
“Rixon’s got a job for me.”
She started to scoot out of her chair, but I waved her back down. “Stay, Mol. I just wanted to thank you for the dog food and bowl you left when I got back. And for the top up.”
“Of course, honey.” She smiled. “I think that dog will do you some good.”
It was funny how everyone kept saying that. “I’ll leave you to it. It was nice seeing you again.”
“Nice to see you, too, honey.”
Chapter 15
Alex
Being freshlyand thoroughly fucked was hard to hide. But I thought I’d done an all right job of it… until Bliss waltzed into the garage and took one look at me.
“You got some dick!” she practically screamed.
How the fuck could she tell?A man walking past the garage startled at her statement, and I shook my head at her. “Jesus, Bliss, don’t you have a filter?”
“You did, didn’t you? You got dick. How was he?Whowas he? Anyone I know?”
Her rapid-fire questions were making my head hurt. “No, nobody you know. Just a guy I met.”
She popped a piece of gum in her mouth and started to chew. “When did you meet him? Where did you meet? Did he deliver on theOs? Was he—” She made an obscene gesture. “—hung like a fucking horse?”
I made a face. “MyGod. How are we friends?”
She shrugged. “You kind of adopted me. I don’t know. But I need to know all the details. So, spill.”
“You know it’s really none of your business who I sleep with.”
“Ah-ha! You admit that youdidsleep with someone.”
Jesus Christ. Bliss wasn’t going to let it go. “Will you promise to never bring it up again if I tell you?”
“Nope,” she replied, popping a bubble for emphasis. “I’m a free spirit, babe. You should know this about me already.”
“How about this? I tell you all about the sex, if you tell me where you disappeared to on Friday night.”
Her smile fell from her face. “I was at the party.”
