“I don’t need a reason, do I?”
“Where are you?”
She didn’t answer, the silence cracking between us. Shear’s words came back to me, the idea that she’d placed walls between us, that she wanted to keep her distance.
Good fucking luck with that.
Where it hadn’t bothered me much when Shear had said it—I’d just chalked it up to him being overly paranoid and all in his feelings—the reality of her pulling away now hit me hard.
“We’ll be right there.”
“You don’t know where I am.”
“It’s adorable that you think that would stop us.” I hung up, not needing to hear another word from her. Instead, I opened the tracking app. I hadn’t mentioned that I’d installed it on her phone, seeing no reason to have a fight over it. Times like this proved exactly why I’d done it.
Could never be too careful, after all.
A pin showed at another trailer, one in the high-end area like us, but a smaller one, made for a single person.
I frowned as I stared at it. That was that fucking guide’s spot, wasn’t it?
She’d said he was her friend, but a part of me couldn’t quite accept something that simple. Nothing was ever that simple, after all. Shove people together and things happened, no matter if they were male, female, guides, espers or civilians.
At the end of the day, they were all just horny apes hoping to fuck one another.
I glanced over at Ingram, the perfect example of that fact.
“Why do I feel like I was just insulted?” he asked, but got up anyway. Whether or not he knew what was going on, he seemed more than willing to go with.
That was how it worked in a squad, though. I could show up and say I needed help killing someone, and Ingram would ask which bat he should bring. We were bound together too tightly to ever do anything else.
Which also meant when our guide was being a rebellious little pup, we’d go gather her up together as well.
Kenyon followed, asking questions. Shear stayed silent and standing near the back. “Where is she? Why do you think she didn’t want to come back?”
I didn’t answer—it wasn’t that far to the other trailer, and it wasn’t like they wouldn’t figure it out when we got there.
Besides, I didn’t have the answers he wanted anyway. I didn’t know why she’d done this, or what would happen, or how to resolve it. I only knew that Yun staying out at someone’s place all night wasnotin the cards.
I knocked—harder than I needed to—when we reached the trailer. In fact, anyone with a brain wouldn’t even dare open the door with me pounding like that.
Not that that would bother me. Fuck, I’d snap the handle without an issue. Boundaries didn’t mean shit when it came to Yun.
The lock clicked and the hinges creaked as the door opened to show—yep, the fucker Kaidan. He had his arms crossed and an eyebrow lifted. “Isn’t it a little late for you to be banging on my door?”
Even facing four espers, Kaidan didn’t appear the least bit worried.
It only annoyed me more.
Still, I smiled. “Just came to pick up our stray.”
“A stray?” He peered behind himself as though he had no idea who I was talking about.
It reminded me that Kaidan here was far from just a pretty face—and I wouldn’t even call him pretty. Instead, he seemed more than willing to play along with my bullshit.
“I don’t think I’ve found any strays.”
“See, I’m rather attached to this one, so I’m not leaving without seeing her.” I stared him down, meeting his smile with my own, neither friendly.
