He swallowed nervously.
Holy shit!
“Are you?” I whispered.
“No,” he said quickly. Then asked, “What is this? You never sit down with me.”
“Actually, I was joking before. Though we girls have been talking, and we realized we’ve known you for years, but we don’t know you. You’re a good customer, and recently, you’ve taken our backs with some stuff…”
This was true.
When Willow’s ex chased her around SC, he got up to chase him to stop him from catching her (though, in the end, it was Harlow who accomplished that).
He’d also stuck up for me when Dream had been in, doing her normal: giving me shit. In so doing, he’d even gone so far as to declare me as “kind of” a little sister.
Not to mention, he’d manned the bar on occasion when things were going down, which was really beyond the call of duty, even for a regular.
“…so we thought it was high time to get to know you better.”
“Well, I’m not an internationally wanted hacker,” he said.
Good to know…even if I wasn’t sure I believed him.
“So, what do you do?” I asked.
“I have a variety of projects with a variety of clients,” he answered, though not very thoroughly.
It was then that I realized, over the years, I actually had made getting-to-know-you overtures. And Byron had always been vague. It had become such a thing, it became habit.
Therefore, I’d never really noticed how cagey he was.
Now I was noticing.
“Doing what?” I pressed.
“Are you…investigating me?” he inquired.
I was confused. “I’m a server. Why would I do that?”
“Because you’re an Angel.”
It was my turn to swallow nervously.
But I didn’t deny it.
I mean, being there every day, considering most of our Angels confabs happened behind the bar (and Byron was often on the opposite side, waiting to ask for another dirty chai), he’d have to be deaf and blind to miss it.
Not to mention, Byron had chased one of our bad guys around SC.
Even so…
“How do you know about that?” I asked.
“Because it’s all over the boards.”
Oh shit.
I didn’t know what “the boards” were, I just knew the Angels being “all over” them was not good.
