Tell It Like It Is by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2020-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

“I’m going to eat and I’m going to enjoy it, but if that’s a game-changer for you, I get it.”

He tipped his head.

“Why would it be?” he asked.

“Tell worries about me,” she said. “I’m realizing he’s not a total basket case, having been on this side of it. If you’re seeing a human, you have to worry about her. If you’re seeing a nightwalker, you get to worry about everyone else.”

The corner of his mouth ticked up.

“You didn’t ask if I’d dated humans,” he said, and she shook her head.

“No. I didn’t.”

“I have,” he answered. “A few. Most of them never even knew what I was. We can do that. The nightwalkers can’t. Just saw them now and again as I got the opportunity. I can do days just as easily as nights.”

“You’re not looking for anything serious,” Tina said, and he narrowed his eyes.

“I guess that is a tell,” he said. “I don’t think I am. Are you?”

She drew a slow breath and thought it out.

She was a long-term-plan kind of girl. Inside and out.

She plotted a course that stretched beyond the horizon, and no matter how many times she had to make up a new one, she always had a new plan ready that went just as far out.

For a moment she was startled at how stuck she had been at her job.

Was it even true?

She’d had a financial plan.

She’d had a professional plan.

But she’d never had a happiness plan.

She’d just done the job and got on with it, because out there where she had the seniority to change things or to change jobs…

“Maybe serious is overrated,” she said, and the side of his mouth came up. He nodded.

“I’m not saying if I met the one I’d go screaming,” he said. “But as long as we’re putting our cards on the table, the one is probably dogbreath like me.”

“Dogbreath,” she said, and he grinned. He had nice teeth. He was just a little bit unshaven - nothing crazy like Tell; enough to make his face seem warm and familiar - and he had a lean, muscular build around broad shoulders. She liked the way he moved. He felt easy and familiar.

“You wanted to know, but you didn’t ask,” he said. She nodded.

“Maybe just fun is the right thing,” she said. “I don’t know how long I’m going to be like this or what’s going to happen after…”

He shrugged.

“So let’s have a nice meal and not worry about it,” he answered.

“Yeah,” she answered. “Okay.”

“I’d toast to that, but they’re notoriously slow here,” he said. “One of the upsides of eating at Redford’s. They just keep bringing you more food, but there’s plenty of time in between to digest.”

Tina grinned and picked up one of the oysters.

“You know I never even had oysters as a human?” she asked.

“Here’s to trying new things,” he said with an easy smile, toasting her with a halfshell.

“Mmm,” Tina said, sipping at her wine. “How do they do that?”

“What’s that?” Anton answered, covering his mouth as he chewed his steak.

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