The Redheads by Rebecca Royce

Author:Rebecca Royce [Royce, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

11

Isupposed I could have stayed in the same clothes I’d worn to the event, but if Max intended to take me out, I actually needed to dress down a bit. He wasn’t going to be taking me anywhere where I needed to be so formal. I ended up putting on a pair of dark jeans with a black tank top. It might have been a little bit too chilly for it, but I’d been cold for fashion before. I didn’t want to have to carry a jacket or a sweater around. Years of leaving my things all over the place and having to go back for the things I’d forgotten wherever I’d set them down had taught me it was better to just not bring the thing at all.

Rubbing my arms as I walked with my bodyguard to the side door of Hyperion made me wonder if I should have just brought the sweater. Too late to change my mind now.

I lifted my hand to knock when the door swung open. It was five minutes after midnight, and although the streets were somewhat more subdued, no one would call them empty.

“Hey.” Max smiled at me. “I saw you pull up.” He offered his hand. “You’re five minutes late.”

Oh, so he was that kind of punctual? That was an interesting fact to store away in the box labeled ‘Max’ in my mind. “There was traffic.”

He winked at me before looking at my bodyguard. “You’re new.”

“They rotate at night sometimes. Can’t expect the same two people to follow me around all day. This is Trey. Trey, Max.”

With a slight tug, I found myself in the restaurant. “I’ve got her now. We’ll be leaving soon. Nothing will happen to her while she’s with me.”

Trey, who was usually quiet in the way that told me he absolutely did not want to chat, nodded at Max. “I’ll follow along from a distance you won’t see. We don’t take our eyes off her unless she’s inside and secured.”

Max nodded back, like he appreciated the answer, then turned back to me when my bodyguard left. “Aren’t you going to be cold? It’s a little bit chilly out there.”

I shrugged. “I’ll be fine.”

“I’ve got something here you can wear.” He left me to walk around the kitchen, staring in the sink. It was weird, after so much activity earlier, to see it so eerily quiet. But Max checked out every square inch of his kitchen before turning toward his office. I’d never been in there, but when he came back out seconds later, he wore a coat and handed me a dark black jacket. I wasn’t small, but it was huge on me since Max was significantly bigger. “You benefit from the fact that I left this one here a year ago by accident.”

I grinned at him. “A year ago, and you didn’t bring it home?”

“I kept meaning to. I guess it’s good, since you didn’t properly dress tonight.” He took my hand. “We’re going to walk ten blocks.

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