“Telling her that you made me late this morning,” he murmured.
I huffed but kept eating rather than arguing. I’d be sure to tell her the truth, preferably where Daniel could hear it and maybe be a bit embarrassed by it.
Though, judging by the way he was behaving this morning, his stick-in-the-mud routine had vanished.
I guess this would be a good way to test it.
We ate in silence for five minutes, both of us finishing our bagels quickly. He stood and carried both our plates to the dishwasher. Once he was done, he wiped his hands on a kitchen towel and turned to me.
“You ready?” he asked.
“As I’ll ever be.”
15
Ihadn’t considered what would happen when we were around Poppy or even other supernatural beings.
For example, that with their sense of smell, shifters could tell if you’d recently had sex.
Poppy was quick to remind me of this because, as soon as Daniel and I walked into the office, her eyes landed on me, and she grinned.
“Don’t start,” Daniel muttered, going over to her desk to pick up the mail.
Poppy waited until he had his back to her and then waggled her eyebrows at me while she leered.
I scowled at her. “What is that face supposed to mean?”
She glanced down the hall and saw that Daniel had already disappeared into his office. “It means that you and the mayor got down and dirty this morning. Is that why he’s so late? Because he’sneverlate. We had a tornado skirt Devil Springs a couple of years ago and a tree fell across the road from his house into town. He still made it to the office twenty minutes early.”
I rolled my eyes. “You don’t know what we did.”
Poppy tapped her nose. “Shifter smell. I know exactly what you did.”
I scowled at her, which only made her laugh.
Before I could retort, the door to the office opened and Leo the Lion Man stepped through.
My back straightened and I turned to face him fully. I couldn’t help it. I didn’t trust him.
He seemed calm, but that didn’t mean anything.
“Is the mayor free?” he asked Poppy.
“I’ll see,” she answered, her tone frigid.
Poppy stood up, came around the desk and took my arm. I nearly stumbled as she pulled me down the hall alongside her.
She didn’t even knock as she pushed Daniel’s door open.
He barely glanced up as we crashed to a halt inside his office, and she shut the door behind us.
“Done with your interrogation already?” he asked Poppy.
“No, but that doesn’t matter,” she replied, getting closer to his desk, and dragging me along.
He looked up then, his gaze sharp when he saw her face. Daniel got to his feet. “What is it?”
Poppy leaned over his desk, finally releasing my arm. “Leo is here,” she whispered.
