Hideaway (Devil's Night 2)

Taking my cuff, I wiped the blood off my mouth, not answering him.

“Are you jealous?”

I cast him a ‘fuck you’ look and went back to staring at the mirror behind him.

I could feel his eyes on me, eating away the small distance between us and wrapping around my body like a cage.

“What did you mean about ‘in both ends’?”

“You know what I meant.”

Their little threesome in the steam room. Kai took the front. Michael got the back. How many times had it happened after that?

“You heard about Rika and me?” His voice was low. “About the steam room?”

Who hadn’t heard? They were seen, it was all over the club, and it was no secret how he felt about her. It was there every time he looked at her.

“I—”

“No.” I cut him off. “I’ve had my fill of your stories, and I couldn’t care less—”

“Shh, shh, shh…” He pressed his finger to my lips, shaking his head at me. “Let’s not do this here, okay? We need to talk about it but somewhere we can really talk.”

And his gaze turned dark, telling me there was another meaning to his words.

Really talk? Where?

Dropping his hand, he walked around me, leaving the room.

“What do you mean?” I barked after him.

“You’ll find out,” he threw over his shoulder and then disappeared.

Banks

Present

An hour later, and I’m still on edge. I was tired before the fight at the dojo, but now I was wired, awake, and pissed at myself. My cards were on the table now.

She knew I hated her, so th

ere was no getting close to her if I needed to, and Kai was probably relishing my disgusting display of jealousy. What had Damon told me, time and again? It’s always best to say as little as possible. The more of a mystery you are, the less leverage they have.

And I went and fucked it all up.

I walked down the quiet street, entering Halston Park, the shopping district of Meridian City. It was just after nine, and I looked up at the sky, finally able to see a few stars. The lights everywhere else in this town were too bright to see many anymore.

What did Alex want? She’d texted, saying that Kai wanted me to meet her at McGivern and Bourne. I’d never been there, but I knew it was an upscale department store.

Rounding a corner, I swept some hair out of my eye and tucked it back under my hat as I approached the building’s glass doors.

I raised my hand to knock but stopped, seeing that it was dark inside. There were a few emergency lights shining way in the back, lighting hallways, but this store was closed. Why did she tell me to come here?

Screw it. I dropped my hand and turned to leave.

“Oh, don’t you dare!” a woman’s voice shouted.

I spun around, seeing Alex coming out of the doors. She wore a billowing, sexy white blouse that hung off her shoulder with black leggings and brown leather boots up to her knees. It occurred to me I’d almost only ever seen her in workout clothes. Aside from Michael’s party.