“Yes, ma’am.” He is still dressed, so he sits on the edge of the bath and not in it with me. “I missed you too. But it’s time to fill me in on what I missed. As usual, with you, it sounds like a fun-filled week what with one thing after another,” he adds dryly.
“You don’t say. Christ. I can’t believe it’s only been a week. So much has happened… again.” I proceed to tell him the story of mine and CK’s making up on the night he left, then Sebastian showing up, followed by Cade stalking me and Xane appearing in the restaurant. He wasn’t overly pleased to learn of the shenanigans in Toronto with the bloody roses and the Hunter blood, so I leave out the secret meeting. Well, not so secret meeting now that CK knows and which we still haven’t properly resolved. I sigh. “It’s been hectic.”
“Sounds like. So, you think he really doesn’t know Cole is a Vampire? What about the rest of us?”
“I’m fairly certain about Cole. He definitely knows about CK but then it would be hard not to. He got close enough to you in JFK, but only for a few seconds so I can’t be sure. So, be careful, okay?” I say softly.
“I will. I’m not really in the mood for dying right about now,” he jokes, and I splash him.
“Not funny,” I scold.
He trails his hand in circles in the bath water and it laps up against me. He circles my breasts but there is nothing sexual in it now. It just…is.
“So, what next?” he says after a long pause.
I shrug. “Hopefully a quiet few days, then I need to see Cole and next week is a trip to see my mother.”
“Tiamat? Why?”
“There are questions that need answering. I can’t go into it now. It’s complicated.”
“Humph. What you mean to say is it has to do with Constantine and you feel like you can’t tell me.”
I smile at his reckoning. “Yes. I’m sorry, my love. I will tell all when we know more.”
He nods, accepting that. He wouldn’t betray my trust, so he knows and understands.
“Did you speak with Jess?” I ask hesitantly.
“Yes. I told her again that I’m not turning her. She’s pissed, but whatever.” He shrugs apparently unconcerned, but there’s an underlying worry in his eyes. Whatever this thing is, I just know it’s going to bite me on the arse several times over before it’s done.
CK comes in then, holding out my phone and says, “It’s Cole. I answered as he has called a few times.”
I hold my hands up out of the water and say, “Wet. Can you put it on speaker on there?” I indicate the bath tray that sits over the tub.
He does as I ask and retreats, much to my surprise. Although, after a second, I realize it is a tactical advantage as he can now eavesdrop freely. Arse.
“Hey, baby,” I say, “I’m in the bath so you are on speaker and Devon’s here.”
“Hey,” he says. “Devon’s back?”
“Yep. Came to my senses. I can’t live without her,” he says and smiles his devastating grin at me.
“Tell me about it,” Cole mutters and I pounce.
“Everything okay?”
He sighs. “I miss you. And I have news.”
“What news?” I ask quickly.
“We are leaving Toronto for a while, going away on location,” he says warily.
“Where to?” I ask a bit too harshly.
“Miami. The week after next for about two weeks.”
“Miami? That’s…” I try to come up with an appropriate word, “inconvenient.”