“Ah, ah, ah,” Mona glanced around as though we were being overheard, “let’s stop while we’re ahead.”
Maya threw up her hands. “Fine. But all I’m saying is at most they might have you help them with stuff on occasion.”
“Stuff…” I said, expecting clarification.
“I don’t know. Maybe they’ll want you to help examine a body.”
“I’m pretty sure Pyre has that under control,” Kaisa said.
“Whatever,” Maya said with a wave of her hand.
“So if you were dating one of them, you wouldn’t feel like you’d need to give up your seat as a County Commissioner?” I asked.
“Hell, no!” She looked at me like I was crazy. “I worked hard to get that position.”
“But they might use you to…influence things,” Melody pointed out.
She shrugged and shot Ainsley an apologetic look. “Call me corrupt if you want, but if it’s in Sentinel’s best interest and helps them out, I don’t care. Especially if I get to keep one of the hot bikers,” she said with a sly smile.
Everyone stewed on that as Maya popped a piece of chocolate into her mouth. Eventually they all looked my way again. “What do you think, Rae?” Harlow asked.
“I don’t know,” I said with a sigh. They’d given me a lot to think about and now I needed to mull it all over.
“We’re forgetting that he did all this without telling her,” Mona pointed out, hands going to her hips.
“Well, she wasn’t his old lady at the time,” Ainsley pointed out. “He wouldn’t have been able to tell her anything. Now, moving forward, he can.”
“But will he?” Melody asked.
“I don’t see any reason why he wouldn’t.”
“I may have accused him of dating me just so he could find out information,” I told the group.
They all stopped, mouths hanging open.
“Oh, sweetie,” Harlow said, sadness etched into her face. “Do you really believe that?”
“I did at the time,” I admitted. “Now… I don’t know. I don’t want to believe it’s true-”
“It’s not,” Ainsley insisted. “I don’t believe that for a minute.”
“I’m worried that I’ll forgive him but it was actually what started all this.”
“He went after you though,” Kaisa countered. I nodded, confused. “Why would he bother to go after you? To try to explain? If he only dated you to get information then he’d let you go. It would be his way of getting out of the relationship.”
“Yeah, and you said he looked pissed at Rotor for spilling the beans,” Maya added. “He’d be relieved if he didn’t want to continue things with you.”
“He probably would’ve told you himself actually, if he really wanted to be rid of you,” Melody said with a nod.
“And he did go after you to save your life,” Mona added.
“You should’ve seen him, Rae,” Ainsley said. “He was ready to rip anyone in front of him to pieces to get to you.” She tilted her head. “He kind of did exactly that…”
Harlow looked around at our group. “So it’s settled?”
“What’s settled?” I asked, panic creeping in because Harlow had that look on her face. The one that said she’d just planned my wedding in her head.
“You’ll forgive Pyre, set some boundaries with him, keep your job, and get married and live happily ever after.”
