“Where to now?” she prompted, sounding less forlorn than a moment ago.
“Until there’s another job, we go home.”
“We should go see a movie,” she said after a few minutes of silence.
“A movie?”
I could feel her eyes on me. “Yeah. You know. It’s a big screen where you can watch people act out a story.”
I barked a laugh. “I know what a movie is.”
“Just checking. With you, it’s hard to tell. You don’t really do much to have fun.”
She was right. I didn’t. Work and home. That was the extent of my existence. Before her, I would deviate from my routine on occasion to fuck someone, but these days, that urge was satisfied by the two people I had at home.
“What do you say?” She put her hand over mine on the gear shift. “Will you go see a movie with me, Rule?”
I didn’t pull away. And for the first time in my life, I didn’t want to.
“Yeah.”
The little squeal of excitement that burst from her lips was almost as satisfying as an orgasm.
Who would’ve figured?
21
Laikyn
Several days later, I was still thinkingabout the impound lot. Every time I did, I was filled with giddy anticipation. I wanted to do it again. I wanted to go on another job to feel that rush.
Although I was pretty sure I’d done a satisfactory job, Rule didn’t seem excited by the idea of me helping him, so I turned my attention to Jinx, hoping to wear him down so he would take me along.
It worked, but not the way I thought. Turned out Jinx didn’t do those sorts of jobs. His involved computers. Hacking, mostly. And while I was impressed with his skills, it wasn’t exactly what I’d been hoping to do, so I settled for pouting a little. And when that didn’t work, I shifted into vixen mode, propositioning them at every turn.
“What’re you working on?” I asked Jinx when I found him sitting on the outdoor sofa, his laptop in front of him.
Waldo was laid out on the ground closer to the pool, soaking up the mid-day sunshine, his brown coat gleaming. Now that he was used to me, he didn’t jump up every time I came around. Sometimes, like now, he didn’t even lift his head. Granted, if I called his name, he would hop up like it was time for a party, but I decided to let him snooze in peace.
“Anything fun?” I asked Jinx as I stepped up behind him.
He shook his head.
I peered over his shoulder, watching the screen as letters and numbers scrolled by in one of the many open boxes. It was a jumbled mess of nonsense. At least to my untrained brain. Since his fingers were moving over the keyboard, I had to assume he knew what he was doing. Not that it helped me.
“So I was meaning to ask you something,” I said casually, flopping down on the sofa and putting my feet out, tucking my toes under his thigh.
Jinx glanced my way briefly but turned his attention back to the screen.
“The other night … when Rule fucked you out here…”
This time, his head snapped over, his eyes wide.
I flashed a smile. “Oops.”
Jinx’s eyes narrowed.
“You didn’t know I was watching, huh?”
