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That explained why I didn’t remember leaving the party. I must have followed Ruen upstairs to have sex and chickened out. Or had I passed out? My throbbing head suggested the latter.
“Okay…so if we didn’t do anything, where are my clothes?”
“No clue. You took them off after you threw up on them.”
“Oh, God.” I groaned. “Is there anything Ididn’tdo last night?”
“Yup.” She smirked. “Pray.” There was a knock on the door a second later, and I clutched the sheet a little tighter while Ruen strode across the room on long, lithe legs and yanked it open without bothering to cover up. “Oh, hey, Rem. Yeah, she was just looking for these.” I couldn’t see who was on the other side, but I did notice Ruen motioning with her hands while she talked. There was a pause and then more gesturing with her hands. “Yeah, she’s up. Bring ‘em in.”
Without any regard for my undressed state, Ruen suddenly stepped aside, revealing me to whoever waited on the other side. Thinking maybe I was still drunk, I slowly blinked in confusion at the sight of another girl wearing Ruen’s face.
It only took a second longer for my drunk-addled brain to catch up.
Twins.
Ruen had a twin sister.
They were identical and yet like night and day. While Ruen was comfortable showing off her skin, her twin was covered from her neck to her toes in a modest white nightgown.
If it weren’t for the hair, tattoo, and piercings,no onewould ever be able to tell them apart.
“H-hey.” I waved awkwardly.
“This is my sister Remedy,” Ruen introduced. And then Ruen began gesturing with her hands again while speaking aloud. “Remedy, Atlas.”
Once again, it took me a second to catch on. Ruen was signing.
My gaze flew to Remedy, who only smiled in greeting and held out the neatly folded clothes in her arms.
I slowly took them and realized they were mine.
She must have washed them for me.
Meeting her patient gaze, I gratefully returned her smile. “Thank you.”
With hands now free, Remedy quickly signed her response, so I looked to Ruen to translate, and she smirked at my helplessness. “She said you’re welcome.”
“I didn’t see you at the party last night,” I said to Remedy.
“That’s because she wasn’t,” Ruen answered while signing something to her sister. “Not her scene.”
“Oh.”
Feeling awkward while they signed back and forth, I quietly excused myself, my brain recalling the tiny en suite where I sought refuge while Ruen filled her sister in.
On the way to the party last night, I’d detoured and stopped at the motel long enough to shower and change into the dress and heels I now quickly threw on.
The room was quiet when I left the bathroom.
Ruen and Remedy were nowhere to be found, but I could hear their voices drifting up from downstairs, so I took the opportunity to look around for my purse and phone.
I eventually found them both hiding underneath the bed. My phone screen lit up, and I blew out a breath at all the notifications waiting for me.
Three of them were missed calls from Pride of Kings,along witha voice message. I skipped listening to the voicemail and glanced at the time instead.
One thirteen in the afternoon.
Shit.
