“What’s going on? Was she alright?”
“Yeah, yeah, it was fine. She wasn’t very trusting, and you know she’s your neighbor, right?”
Antoine cursed. He knew that there were a few humans out that far in the woods, but not many. Of course, that would be his luck, that he would have slammed into one of the only ones out there. Yeah, that made sense, he thought to himself.
“Fuck.”
“Yeah, and the car is junked worse than you thought. She was talking about the mechanics of it, and I was floundering, man. You know I don’t know shit about cars.”
Antoine laughed. “Did she know more than you?”
“Probably. I told you that I wouldn’t be good doing this.”
“While I am getting better at being chased down by your friends.”
“Sorry about that.”
“It’s all good. So, what did you do with her?”
“I dropped her off at her house and told her I would get her car in to get it fixed. She was not happy. Apparently, she was on her way to an interview and you just ruined her day, week, month, maybe her life.”
“One of those, huh?”
Antoine had a lot of reasons to not like humans, but the reason that he didn’t like the females, even though many of his kind tried them out once in a while, was because they never shut up. They never stopped talking about things of little to no importance. It almost made him feel better about the fact that he’d ruined her plans.
“No, not at all. It was all running in her head a mile a minute. It was like she couldn’t shut it off, and I couldn’t either. She was projecting, and I will be the first to tell you, Antoine, she wants your balls in the blender.”
“Great. Do you think she’s going to go to police?”
“I don’t know. She’s pissed.”
Antoine groaned. “What am I supposed to do? You know that I don’t want cops sniffing around. They’re going to find this place, and then I’m going to have to move again. Great, just great!”
Antoine was working himself up and feeling helpless. One mistake, one miscalculation, and he was going to have to change everything. Again.
“Why don’t you just give her a job?”
“A job? What the hell am I going to give her a job doing? You know that I barely go into the office. It’s more of a front than anything else. Hell, it’s not really even a proper office.”
“I don’t know. She’s a writer. Have her write on your website and social media.”
“I don’t have a website or social media. I just told you, the business is a front. I do some trading, but really, I just do it when I’m bored.”
“Well, she doesn’t know that. You want to keep an eye on her. If she has a job, she’ll be less mad at the man who, and I quote, ‘Barreled her down and left her for dead.’ End quote.”
“That’s what she said, huh? I thought you said she wasn’t like that?”
“It’s kind of what you did, Antoine.”
“Whose side are you on?”
Nathan chuckled, and Antoine was confused as to why his friend was acting so weird. He shouldn’t be so light-hearted about it. Antoine had almost been run down by a bunch of Nathan’s enemies.
“Are you even going to ask about the damn attack?”
“Why would I do that? I know that you’ve taken care of them, you always do. You’re the most loyal friend I know, Antoine. I won’t forget this or anything else that you’ve done. Just wait until I finally get my title instated. I will make you one of us, if you like.”
“No, I already left my own clan. I don’t need another.”
