Too bad?I glared at her, horrified, before grabbing and reapplying deodorant. I also sprayed on some cologne for good measure.
“How do I look?” I asked, spinning on the spot.
With a grin, she answered, “Handsome.”
I grinned at her approval. “Thank you.”
“Is anyone going with us to eat?”
I shrugged. Honestly, I hadn’t considered that when I decided to get food. I’d been too focused on finding her after rehearsal to think about anyone else.
“Do you want them to?” I asked slowly, running through a mental roster of who we could ask. “Night definitely won’t, but Bobbitt might. We can also ask Syxx and Sev?—”
The click of the trailer door opening cut me off, and Night’s masked face appeared over Arina’s shoulder. My stomach dropped as his aura filled the trailer, making the air thick enough to choke on. His salted-pretzel scent drifted over, and Arina froze, her eyes widening like she’d seen a ghost.
She looked terrified and, honestly, I couldn’t blame her for that either. She didn’t have the best track record with the Knotty Sideshow alphas.
It’s a good thing I didn’t take a shower.
She would have been out here alone with him…
“Hey, Night,” I said, doing my best to sound casual. He simply glared at me, his sapphire-blue eyes burning holes in my soul.
Fuck.He wasn’t happy.
We needed to get out of here.
“This is Arina, the sideshow’s new assistant,” I said, still trying my best to sound nonchalant. To sound less nervous than I felt.
Arina turned slowly on the spot to face him, and I stepped up close behind her. Maybe if I could gently nudge her forward, we could get out fast.
Unfortunately, he was standing between us and the only door.
And he wasn’t budging.
“Arina, this is Night, our resident magician.” My tone was more tense now. “You saw him perform tonight.”
“Nice to meet you,” she said confidently. I didn’t know how she kept sticking up to these alphas without being fazed, but she made it look easy. Maybe she wasn’t as timid as she let on. “You were incredible. Truly magical, excuse the pun.”
Normally, Night would preen at compliments, but he looked thoroughly unamused now. Almost angry, like she’d insulted him.
“Leave,” he signed, and my heart clenched hard.
Night never spoke, and he rarely bothered with sign language. If he ever had something important to say, he’d typically text me when I wasn’t in the trailer. Or he just wouldn’t acknowledge it, and I’d be left wondering what he was mad about.
The fact that he told me to leave meant he was seconds away from losing his shit.
That wasn’t good.
“Arina, will you wait outside for me?” I asked, my eyes never leaving Night’s. “I'll catch up in a minute.”
She looked back over her shoulder at me, worry painting her features. “Is everything… sure. I’ll be outside.”
With that, she hurried past Night with her head low and bolted out the door. It snapped closed behind her, leaving me alone with the alpha.
“What is your problem?” I asked, trying to harness some of Arina’s courage. “You’ve been shitty to me since last night. I didn’t do anything, at least not that I know of, but you’ve been even more distant than usual.”
He ignored me and took off his top hat, crossing the space to lay it on the counter. Then, he stripped off his jacket and hung it on the back of the chair that was tucked up against the small dining table. Still, he didn’t sign anything else.
