“Is anyone going to listen to me?” Zander said, crossing his arms over his chest and giving them all a grumpy look. “I don’t like this.”
“You don’t like change,” Webb said to him as he walked out with Eli. “We’ve done a perimeter check. There’s no way anyone is getting over these walls without it setting off one of Miles’ alarms. Sure, they could take her out with a sniper rifle from a tall height. But that would take some effort. Harder to do if she stays inside.”
Angie just gaped at him. Was he crazy? He was going to upset Zander even more. She crossed her arms over her chest and tapped her foot.
“Are you on my side or what?” she asked.
“Nope,” Webb told her.
“We don’t want you to move in here,” Ammo added with a frown.
“Well, you guys don’t get to vote,” she said.
“Ahh, were you not there when we voted?” Honey asked. “Oh wait, you weren’t. You were resting with a bad period.”
Angie turned her glare on Honey. The woman was an oversharer. These guys liked to share everything with each other. But not everyone needed to know her business. They especially didn’t need to know about her periods!
There was a girl code.
But no one even flinched. Meaning they’d already known or hearing about her period didn’t worry them.
Likely both with this lot.
“Vote?” she asked quietly.
“Don’t be mad,” Keira said. “You know it’s the way they do things.”
“It is? I thought everyone just did what Zander told them to,” she said.
Zander sighed sadly. “It would be so much easier if they did. If everyone in the world just did as I told them to, I’m sure they’d all be better off. Imagine if I was the ruler of the world?”
“All hail, the supreme dictator, Zander,” Honey said, raising her arms up and down and bending at the waist. “Or is that supreme dickhead?”
Angie had to hold in a giggle at Honey’s teasing.
“Hey, it’s probably both,” Zander admitted.
“You really voted on whether I should go or stay?” Angie said to Keira.
She wasn’t sure why, but she felt kind of hurt.
If she was here then they must have voted in favor of her leaving, which meant they didn’t want her at the compound.
“It wasn’t like that,” Keira said hastily. “No one wants you to leave, Angie.”
Shit. Obviously her hurt was showing.
“Nope, we all voted that you needed to stay except for Miles, Keira, and Honey,” Eli told her.
“And that’s only because the two of us know how much you want to have some space for yourself,” Keira told her.
Was there a hint of hurt in her voice?
“It’s nothing against you guys,” she said.
“I know. So even though I want you to stay with us, I voted that you should be able to leave. Not that you had to leave. That wasn’t the vote.” Keira gave her an earnest look and the knot in her stomach unraveled.
“It was whether we thought it was safe enough for you to go,” Miles said, pushing at his glasses.
