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In my head, I was Lara Croft. I was Buffy. I was Wonder Woman. And I’d absolutely fuck someone up if they tried to take a single thing from this house.
The last few steps had an open railing, so there was no hiding my presence once I cleared those.
I’d jump down.
Yell.
Swing.
Thenkeepswinging.
The bottom steps came closer, and I pinched my eyes shut.
Go,I yelled in my head.
With a roar fit for an Amazon queen, I charged down the steps.
“What the bloody fuck?” I heard him yell.
Bloody.
British.
British accent.
It was the accent that messed up my glorious warrior queen entrance, because I’d already started to swing the bat when my toe caught on the edge of the stairs, and I pitched forward.
The bat lodged itself in the drywall, and I tumbled forward, landing on my ass on the floor, where I found myself staring up into the face of one Liam Davies.
And the asshole was smiling.
“My goodness, that was entertaining.” He clucked his tongue. “What were you gonna do? Bash my head in? I’m glad your aim is as bad as your entry.”
“Fuck off,” I snapped, groaning when I tried to roll to my feet.“Ouch.”
The smile melted off his face. “You all right?”
“No.” My ass would be sore for a week, and that wasnothingcompared with the bruising my ego had just taken. “What are you doing here?”
“I’ve always had a key to their house. No one told me I had to give it back.”
“Maybe because you stormed out of the office before we could tell youanything.”
I raked a hand through my hair and grimaced when I realized the bat was still stuck in the wall. Liam sighed, holding his hand out to help me up. I smacked it away and got up without his help, thank you very much. My entire body screamed in protest.
“Why are you using the key now? Have you come here before?”
He glanced around, eyes darkening. “No.”
I rubbed my tailbone and winced. No crab walking for me for a few days.
“Cleaner in here than I thought it would be,” he said.
“Rosa hired a cleaning crew to come in and pick up everything so that I didn’t have to do it.”
He grunted. “Lady from across the street? With the white hair and the scary eyebrows?”
I rolled my eyes. “They’re not scary, but yes.”
