Limelight by Alyson Santos

Author:Alyson Santos [Santos, Alyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-12T18:30:00+00:00

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No. Everyone agrees first is the rowhome tour of hell. Damn, the devil will be so bored with me when I finally get there for real.

I push through the crowd to reach the door first. “I need to grab something from my room quick.” If I can at least give her—

“Hey, Jess.” Her smile fades as the foyer fills with former targets. Victims. Enemies.

“Mila Taylor?” I’ve never seen Luke flustered. Never. But that’s my specialty: turning normal shit into documentary fodder.

I clear my throat. “Yeah. We’ve kind of become friends.”

Now I’ve pissed her off too. I’m on a roll.

“Friends? Right. Friends.” She forces a smile and offers her hand. Luke takes it with robotic grace.

“Wow. Been a while,” he says.

I’ve also never seen Casey look ready to punch a girl before. “What brings you above ground? Lucifer give you vacation days or something?”

The guys snort behind us.

“Right. Well, clearly you have plans I didn’t know about, so I’ll leave you to it.” Her lips are so tight, it’s amazing words even escape through them. Oh I’m in a shitload of trouble.

“Wait, you all know each other?” By his grin, Derrick didn’t catch the tone or any of the previous exchanges.

“We go way back,” Casey says.

“Really? Wow! How…” We can see the moment when Derrick joins the rest of us in the present awkwardness. “Ohhh. She talked shit about you too, huh?” At least it shuts him up. Or not, when the silence turns from awkward to unbearable.

I clear my throat. “So how about heading over to the studio?”

Bodies are already moving toward the door before the matching chorus of yeps, sounds good, and okays joins in.

“I’ll catch up with you,” I call after them. Except it’s Mila I have to catch when I turn around. I follow the sound of dishes banging in the kitchen. Back straight and fist clenched around a spatula, she’s prepared for battle—or murder. Death by pancake-flipper. I dunno…

I’ve never been great at hiding my amusement.

“What’s so funny?” she snaps.

“Just calculating how long it will take you to kill me with that.”

She glances down at the weapon, and her shoulders relax with the twist of her lips. “Quite a long time, I reckon.”

“Bet you’d get bored.”

“Bet you’d stop me first.”

“You’ll just have to tie me down then.” I reach from behind and close my hand over hers. Air releases from her lungs as she lets go of the utensil to lace her fingers with mine instead.

“Friends, eh? Is that what we are?” she says, leaning into my chest. I cross our arms around us to force us closer.

“I don’t know what we are. It’s just—”

“No.” Her hair brushes against my lips as she shakes her head. “You don’t need to explain. It’s the nature of what I do, what I’ve done. I guess… It’s just never hurt before.”

Her voice is soft. “Where did you come from? You’ve made things very complicated for me,” she mutters, and see, that’s funny.

“I’ve made things complicated for you?”

I feel her smile when she burrows in my arms.

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