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“Of course it is. You’re not going back there because I said so.”

“Well, I am going back there because I said so.”

“But you’re not in charge.”

“Neither are you,” she exclaimed.

“That’s where you’re wrong. I am definitely in charge of you.”

She slumped in his arms, and he actually set her down on her feet. Turning, she stared up at him with her hands on her hips. “Look, just because you promised Charlie that you’d look out for me, does not mean that you are in charge of me.”

“That’s exactly what it means,” he told her.

The man was delusional, and the sooner she got rid of him, the better.

Darn it. She was growing tired and didn’t feel like arguing. He wasn’t in charge. But she’d let him think that if it meant she could get rid of him.

She really didn’t want to walk any further, and she really didn’t have the energy to go back and confront Danny. She’d used it all up just now.

If she went back and talked to him, she’d probably either beg for her job back or cry, maybe both, and she couldn’t deal with the humiliation of that right now.

Tomorrow was another story, of course.

“Fine. I won’t go back and yell at Danny, but only because I might want my job back tomorrow.”

“You’re not getting your job back tomorrow.”

“That does not mean that I am in any way agreeing that you are in charge of me,” she said, ignoring him. “But I am going to use you for a ride to the cats and then home.”

“What the hell are the cats?”

Ammo should have realized that she literally meant cats. He watched as she pulled some packets of cat food out of the backpack she’d taken to the bar.

He thought it held a change of clothes, but nope, there was packet after packet of food.

She also had paper plates that she set the food out on in different areas. And just like that, the cats started coming out of the bushes.

There had to be at least twenty of them, all eating the food she put out.

With a sigh, she glanced around with satisfaction.

“Do you do this every night?” he asked.

“Yeah, of course. Cats need fed every day.”

“At this time of night, in the dark?” He glanced around. They were in a small park nestled into a residential area. This wasn’t at all safe. There was no way she came out here every night and did this.

“Well, I used to do it in the evening between jobs, but now I have to come under the cover of darkness.”

What did she mean she had to come under the cover of darkness?

“You! I see you. You’re feeding the cats again. I see you. Stop that.”

“Oh, shit. Here he comes. Quick, run!”

She took Ammo’s hand and attempted to tug him along, but Ammo didn’t run away from danger, he moved toward it, and he wanted to know what she was running from.

“Who is it?” he asked. “What’s wrong?”