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“Please don’t call her that to her face.”

“I’m gonna.”

“Don’t.”

“I’m definitely gonna.”

“Ash.”

“Dev.”

He groaned. “K is going to kill me.”

I grinned up at the ceiling.

“K can’t kill me. I’m in love.”

Dev muttered something vicious under his breath, then said, louder, “You better be careful.”

I rolled my head to look at him, upside-down on the couch. “Why? She’s mine.”

Dev snorted. “No.She’s not. And K knows her. From before.”

That pulled me upright.

“Before what?”

“Like… before, before,” he said, voice dropping. “He recognised her the second he saw her. He was… weird about it.”

I frowned. “Weird how?”

Dev shrugged. “K weird. Quiet. Stiff. Murder-in-his-eyes weird.”

“That’s normal.”

“Weirder than normal.”

Something hot and possessive twisted low in my stomach.

“She didn’t look at him like she knew him,” I said finally.

“Yeah,” Dev replied. “But he looked at her like he’d seen a ghost. So just—don’t touch her yet. If K thinks you’re messing with someone from his past? You’re dead.”

I laughed, loud.

“Let him try.”

Dev stared at me like I was actually unhinged.

“You really are gone for her, huh?”

I didn’t even try to hide it.

“I’m gonna marry her,” I declared.

Dev groaned again. “Gods help us all.”

The door to our suite slammed open and in stepped K, fresh blood being wiped from his knuckles.