Risk Me (Vegas Knights Book 2) by Bella Love-Wins & Shiloh Walker

Author:Bella Love-Wins & Shiloh Walker [Love-Wins, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bella Love-Wins Books
Published: 2017-11-01T18:30:00+00:00

Naomi had insisted I get dressed and meet her at Café Du Monde for beignets and café au lait.

I wanted to argue and just insist she tell me what was up—I didn’t think Thea’s closest friend had made that long drive just for the hell of it, but once she turned around and started down the hall, I was kind of stuck.

I was wearing a bedsheet wrapped around my hips, and the woman was already at the stairs of my apartment building.

She waggled her fingers at me and flashed an over bright smile. “Twenty minutes!”

I made it in fifteen and that included the haphazard shower.

She was already seated at one of the small tables near the familiar green and white striped awning of the popular coffee joint. She had a plate of beignets in front of her, but whether or not she’d eaten even one, I couldn’t tell. She nodded at the café au lait she’d ordered for me before taking another sip of hers. “I could drink this stuff morning, noon, and night,” she told me.

“We’re college students. Our blood runs on caffeine,” I said. Small talk. That was good. The more small talk there was, the less important this could be.

“I’m here because Thea asked me to come down.”

Aw, fuck….

She swallowed and met my eyes, tugging her sunglasses away. That was when I realized she’d been crying. Not little crying, either. Big, ugly cry crying.

“Whatever it is,” I said slowly. “Thea can tell me herself.”

“She can’t,” Naomi replied, shaking her head. She laid something on the table next to me. “She wants you to know that if you don’t want to wait—”

“She can tell me herself!” I said again, louder.

Naomi slammed her fist on the table. “Listen to me,” she said, her tone remarkably calm. “I had to put her back together this week and I’ll probably have to do it a dozen times before this is done. I’d do it for you, too, but to be honest, there’s not enough of me left right now to do it. Now…do you love her?”

“What?” I demanded. “You’re coming fucking down here to dump me for her and you’re asking me if I love her?”

“Oh, please.” Naomi curled her lip at me. “You know her better than that—if it was as simple as her dumping you, she would’ve done that her damn self, so shut your arrogant ass up and listen to me.”

I was surprised into silence, mostly because I’d never heard the sweet, laid-back girl say so much as boo to anyone.

“Melody put Nicky in a home.”

Ice broke out through my veins. The fury I’d felt, the rage, all of it drained away. I’d reached up to shove my hair back, something that had become a nervous gesture, but now my hand fell limp into my lap. It smacked the table, I was so unaware of my own body. Pain sang through me, but even that felt distant.

“No,” I said, shaking my head. “No.”

“Yes.” Naomi stared at me with eyes that burned, with venom, fury, and hurt.

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