Fucker.
"I'm not. I don't like being kept hanging. So was it?"
When it looked like he wasn't going to give me an answer, I glared at him, giving him one of my best glares, of course. "Don't make me shoot you."
"He takes his games seriously, doesn't he?" Noah said to Urban.
"If you don't shut up,I'llshoot you," Urban said, probably addressing his brother, not me. I mean, I wasn't the one being annoying here.
We were all silent for another minute or two.
Noah broke it by saying, "Sky."
"Huh?" I turned my face to frown at him.
"I spied the sky." He gestured with his hand, palm upward.
"That's bullshit," I told him. "You can't see the sky. If you said stars, I'd buy that." They were big out here. The sky was blanketed with them. If I was poetic or romantic, I'd say they were pretty.
"I'd also accept shoe." I turned away from him. "Fucking sky," I said under my breath.
"Relieved the boredom though, didn't it?" Noah said. As if somehow that made up for it.
"You're out of your mind," I said.
"Yeah, but at least I'm pretty." He was grinning again.
"Pretty psycho if you ask me." Yeah, okay, he wasn't alone there. We were a bunch of pretty psychos.
I caught a hint of movement outside the house. Someone was walking around to a door at the back. Two someones. They opened the door and stepped inside.
There wouldn't have been anything weird about that except it was dark on that side of the property. I only knew the door was there because I saw it before. It was fully dark. Otherwise, it would have been hidden by the shadows.
Whoever the hell they were, they weren't sneaking, but they were beingsneaky. In my book, that made them suspicious as fuck.
"Stay here," I started to move slowly through the trees.
Damp leaves squelched under my boots, but no twigs snapped, giving me away. Of course not. They wouldn't fucking dare. Right?
Circling around carefully, I stayed in the darkness. Another shadow lost in the darker shadows.
A security guard wandered past in the opposite direction. They rubbed their hands together, apparently more concerned with being cold than looking for people like me lurking around.
In spite of that, I stopped, held my breath and waited for them to pass before moving on.
I stopped again few feet away, under another tree closer to the door. Beside it was window, the curtains open. All I could see from this angle was a wall, covered with some kind of floral wallpaper. I'd have to move in closer for a better look.
"What is it?" Noah said from right behind me.
I jumped violently, pulling out my gun and aiming it at his head.
"Fucking hell," I hissed. "I told you to stay back there." My heart raced like crazy, threatening to jump out of my chest and punch him in the face. He was lucky I hadn't shot him.
"Forrest told us to stay with you," Noah said. He placed his hand on the side of the gun and pushed it away. "You're not going to use that."
"You hope I'm not." I put it away again. "I'm guessing your brother didn't teach you not to sneak up on someone who was armed." He should have, that was basically sneaking around one-oh-one.
"I thought you knew we were there," Noah said with a shrug. "Aren't you supposed to be good at this shit?"
