The last meeting he had for the week was one with Nathan and of course, he didn't want to talk about work. He was far more interested in what was going on at Antoine’s house. He had a million questions, and all of them were centered on how Cassandra and Antoine were getting along. Wink. Wink.
“You know, it would be easier to answer you, if you weren't grinning so damn big.”
Nathan waved him off. “Dude, I have never seen you all twisted up for a chick before. You know that I'm going to have to say something. We are now in uncharted territory.”
He was joking, but it was true. Antoine was twisted up because of Cassandra and he didn't like it one bit. The more he thought about it, the less he could smile about it. She really had messed him up in the head and he had no idea what he was supposed to do about it. At the moment, all he could think to do was stay away from her as much as possible. That's pretty much what he’d been doing, even though he had been failing miserably and the space between them didn’t seem to be helping.
“What is there to say? I got a damn human staying with me and surprise, she is more trouble than she's worth.”
“So, you've given it a try?”
“What?”
“You know, you fucked her yet?”
His head snapped over so quickly it almost hurt him. Not only was he not digging the way that Nathan was talking about her, but he was also confused by how easily Nathan thought he would do something like that. It went against everything that he stood for. All there was to think about was the fact that she was human. That's all he needed to know to keep him away. Humans, women, they were all the same. Human women were too dangerous.
“Why would you think that I would do that? With a human?”
“Because for one, she's hot as hell.”
While that was true enough, Antoine thought that Nathan knew him better than that. He should know that he was not interested in her like that, or shouldn’t be. He was interested in getting his friends through his time of need and going back to the simple life that he missed so much.
Nathan just shook his head, like he could read his mind and maybe he could. “Look, man. You're making this more complicated than it has to be. You like her, I bet she likes your crazy beasty ass, so why make it more difficult than it has to be? Bang her and get it out of your head.”
Antoine sarcastically thanked him for his help. “Really, you’ve saved me with your wise wisdom. Bang her…”
“No problem, anything I can do to help.”
“So, now that we have my problem solved, I just need to bang her. How about we take care of your problem?”
“Oh, you mean the old leader that wants to kill me, or the military faction that's looking for me as well?”
Antoine shrugged. “Either one of those will do.”
He groaned and told Antoine there wasn't much more to talk about. “Vincent is trying to help me find them. As soon as we do, we will be able to move on to the next plan.”
“And the next plan being?”
His friend smiled in this eerie way.
“Burning them to the ground, obviously.”
Antoine sighed. “I was afraid you'd say that.”
“Was there ever a doubt, though?”
“No, I guess there wasn’t.”
***
Antoine went home a little bit later with his friend’s words on his mind. Just bang her. That's what he kept telling himself and before he knew it, it was all Antoine could hear. By the time he got through the door, he was raging hard and in need of some attention. It had been a long time since he had been so worked up. It was impossible for him to get it out of his mind. Cassandra had cooked for him, trying to help out, and he was thankful for it, but of course he wasn't thinking about that at all. He was far more worried about other things, things that mattered more. Like the sway of her breasts without a bra on. She was wearing one of his shirts again and nothing on underneath. His attention was officially pulled away.
“You're not eating.”
“Just got a lot on my mind.”
“You went to see Nathan, didn't you?”
