Entwined by Kat Catesby

Author:Kat Catesby [Catesby, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kat Catesby Publications
Published: 2020-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

The ride home is painfully quiet.

Sophia is practically unconscious and sprawled across the backseat with her head on the lap of a security guy I think is called Miles. The other two men trail us closely in a black vehicle I barely registered as I climbed into the front of the SUV.

Tristan sits in the driver’s seat, making an ice age look like a week in the Caribbean; to say his mood is glacial is putting it mildly.

He hasn’t looked at me since we walked out of the loft room in Inferno and anything he’s had to say to me since then has been monosyllabic.

My patience is wearing thin – I have enough emotional shit to process without him getting pissy and acting like a patronizing sub-parent.

I huff and kick off my shoes. I want to be anywhere but here…and by anywhere, I mean with Jackson, in private, talking through everything that needs to be said and explained before we rip each other’s clothes off.

“What?” asks Tristan, too firmly for my liking.

“Don’t use that tone with me, Matthews. I am not a child, nor have I behaved like one,” – except perhaps when I was lashing out at Jackson – “and even if I had, I’m not your child. I thought we were friends, so stop being an asshole.”

“Not a child, huh? Barking out my surname when you’re on the defensive, like every other mollycoddled rich kid is real mature, Em. I am your bodyguard – you’ll do well to remember that. It’s the only relationship we have that counts and your parents pay a lot of money for it. Friends are what we manage when you’re not running off into a den full of vampires without telling me and then undermining me when I try to protect you.”

“I didn’t run off into a den full of vampires deliberately –”

“You are a dreadful liar, always have been. You knew exactly what you were walking into.”

“That’s not completely true,” I sigh. “I figured out what Sophia’s date was and I suspected there would be more of them and my assessment of the situation was that it was best to keep you – a human – out of harm’s way. They’re like me and I’m trained to deal with that, but I had no idea I was basically walking into a fucking orgy.”

“TRAINED?” he explodes, “You have no idea the training or the missions that I’ve survived. Making decisions regarding my safety is not your place and you have no right to assume that you know best. You don’t. My job is to protect you – why is that such a difficult fucking concept for you to grasp? And as for your training…if you had enrolled and spent several years in the corps then maybe I would hold your assessment,” – he spits the word – “in higher regard. But your skills are basic at best and you got lucky with your roof trick; you’re not mature yet, so your powers can’t always be relied upon to do what you want them to.

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