“I ordered food.”
She shook her head again. “Sure. Blue Owl?”
“Yeah. Piper seemed to know what we’d want, so I just went with that.”
“There better be pie.”
“There better be pie,” I agreed.
That got a small smile out of her, and I liked it. I wanted to see her happy, even though I knew I’d disappointed her. “Myra, I’m sorry.”
“Don’t.” She put her hand on my shoulder and rubbed it a little. “I know you are trying to do the right thing here. I just…I can’t agree on this one. So apologizing is just…yeah, not going to fly with me.”
It was strange to have this distance between me and my sister. Over the years we’d gotten into plenty of arguments, but this was more than that. This was a huge life decision that she did not agree with and would not agree with.
There was nothing I could do at this point. But she watched me, like she expected me to do something. For the life of me, I didn’t know what it was.
What would normal Delaney do? Smile reassuringly?
Ryder walked over—he’d put his boots back on—and draped an arm across my back.
“You two ladies doing okay here?” It sounded casual, but maybe there was more to what Ryder was saying. More Myra, or a person with a soul, could hear.
“This sucks,” I grumbled.
“What?” he asked.
“I hate being treated differently. I’m still me.”
“I know.” He deposited a kiss on my temple.
It was nice, but I wasn’t talking to him.
“Myra, do you understand that I only traded away a part of me, not the whole shebang.”
“Your soul is an awful lot of you,” she said.
“But not all.”
“No,” she agreed. “Not all.”
The knock on the door got me moving.
“Nope.” Myra blocked my path. “Stay. I got it. It might be someone looking for organ donation. Can’t have you giving away your spleen before dinner.”
I rolled my eyes and tried not to let any more of my frustration show. Turned out I didn’t have to worry about that. As soon as it hit, my irritation sort of fizzled out.
Super annoying.
Which I didn’t care about either.
Rinse. Repeat.
The delivery guy turned out to be Mykal, our friendly vampire EMT.
“Didn’t know you’d taken on a night job,” Myra said as she let him in with the box he was carrying and directed him to place it on the coffee table.
“Just got done eating at the diner when your order came in. Told Piper I could drop it off.”
