I nodded. “I’m okay with that too.” They spoke English there, so that was a plus. I wasn’t multilingual like everyone else on this rooftop. I knewcervezaandel baño. That was about the extent of mySpanish.
Nox confirmed his agreement aswell.
It looked like we were moving—again.
Damien sighed. “Okay then, Canada it is. Now to tell Jeremy and hope he handles the newsokay.”
Ronnie was sitting on the other side of Damien, and she reached out and grasped his arm. “We’ll all pitch in to make the transition as smooth as possible forhim.”
Damien looked taken aback by her kind gesture. “Thankyou.”
My heart felt like it was ten pounds lighter in that moment. My best friend and my— whatever Damien was—coming together and helping each other. It felt damngood.
“I wonder if we could get proof that they made a deal with the sentries and were somehow bringing the green stuff back to Earth,” I pondered outloud.
Damien grinned. “Sounds like a job for ahacker.”
I’d forgotten about his computer abilities until now. He’d hacked into Santiago’s apartment building and set off the fire alarm in under aminute.
“Think you can do it?” I asked,hopeful.
He shrugged. “With some direction from your friend Kevin…maybe.”
That didn’t sound too hopeful, but I would have to take maybe. Maybe was all wehad.
Damien placed a hand on my thigh. “As much as it pains me to say this, I think we need to cancel our date tonight. I’ll need to spend the night finding us a new house inVancouver.”
He was right. It was practical, and spending hours on a date while the government was looking to blow up your town was stupid, but his words still stung. “Totally. Iunderstand.”
My eyes flicked to Ronnie, whose face looked sad and downcast forme.
“But I’ll need help picking a place out, so we can have a computer date with my real estate agent,” he followed up with a peppiertone.
I chuckled. “My dream date,” Ijoked.
Ronnie crossed her arms. “Maxine’s the only one who ever has any fun aroundhere.”
The moment she said it, her eyes widened as if she wanted to take itback.
Nox made a groaning noise in his throat and stood, walking quickly toward the stairs that led down into thehouse.
“Ronnie!” I scolded her once he was out of earshot. Nox had recently developed a thing for Maxine, but he hadn’t told her yet, and other than Damien mentioning it to her once, she wasclueless.
Ronnie smacked her forehead. “I wasn’tthinking.”
“You know you could be dating too, if you took that stick out of your ass and gave in to Brisk. The man is going to get tired of waiting around for you,” I toldher.
She rolled her eyes. “Good. Let him get tired and move on. I’m not interested,” shespat.
Damien was on his phone, not paying us any mind as far as I couldtell.
“Veronica Sato, you are lying through your teeth. You’ve wanted to jump his bones for a while now,” I called herout.
She stood, and put a hand on her hip. “But you did it for me, so now I don’t have to. I’m gonna start dinner.” She walked off with asmirk.
Damn, Ronnie’s filter is definitelybroken.
Damien looked at me with one raised eyebrow and put down hisphone.
