Do you want me to stay? Or leave?
Her eyes flitted up to his, and he saw those honey eyes harden in what he could only interpret as one thing. Challenge. His lips twitched and he had to press a hand to his eyes to not grin at the absurdity of this situation.
“I’m going to work now.”
Stay.
“You do that.” Angel murmured back and flopped back into the pillows as he threw a hand over his eyes.
And swore like a maniac in his mind with an absurd grin on his face.
* *
When Ray awoke, Angel was already gone. She was surrounded by a flock of papers and an embarrassing recollection of the memories from last night.God, what had gotten into her?She thought grimly as she put her face in her pillow and let out a wail.
Fucking amber eyes.
“You sleep well last night?”
Verana’s voice was like a cold pail of water on her body. Ray snapped up and immediately regretted the sudden movement. She swore out loud and clutched her abdomen as jolts of pain shot down her spine. Still, she turned to face the other girl, who was standing in Ray’s doorway with her arms crossed,
“Don’t act like you care Smith.” Ray snapped back and shook herself once to get rid of the aftershocks in her body.
She heard Verana sigh, but she didn’t pay her any heed. Didn’t really want to, after last night. Instead, Ray focused on collecting the papers splattered across her bed and placed them in her bag carefully. After hours of sorting everything out, Ray had finally settled on an accurate person for the job. She’d talk to Maya and Alessandro about it directly. Didn’t really have the ability to talk to Kyle right now.
“We got a girl who escaped from the place yesterday.”
Ray froze and snapped her head back to face Verana.
Her eyes were grim, and her fingers white as she curled them into tight fists, “How old is she?” she asked, fighting the frown off her face.
Verana’s eyes flashed, and Ray jerked back, “Young.” Was her tight response, as Ray jumped off her bed and shoved her laptop into her bag.
“Has Maya talked to her?” she asked, her voice borderline desperate as she looked down at the IV lines. A part of her wanted to rip them out, but she shook her head,
“Get David Pierce.”
“I’m not your–”
“Just fuckinggo.”
Verana swore and scrambled out of her room. Ray let out a harsh breath and pulled the pair of clothes from her bag. They’d packed her a pair of jeans and a clean white shirt with some undergarments. This would do, she thought grimly as she looked up her doorway impatiently. As if her thoughts had summoned him, David ran through, looking worried,
“What?”
“Get me out of these.”
She pointed to the IV lines. David opened his mouth to argue but she grit her teeth and snarled softly,“Now.”
David ran to her side and as carefully as he could, removed the line from her hand. Ray didn’t even blink at the brush of pain in her hand. All she could think of was the young girl and Maya and those questions.Shit, shit, shit, she swore as she pushed past David and yelled at him to get out.
She didn’t even turn to see him leave. Just hauled the hospital gown off her. Verana cursed out loud behind her, and Ray caught the scraping sound of the curtains being shoved closed as she put on her clothes.
“Has Maya seen her?” Ray asked again and turned to see Verana’s eyes. Her actions stalled at the look in her eyes, and a look of horror passed her gaze,
“What? Why this fuck did you–”
“I couldn’t stop her!” Verana shouted and Ray cursed out loud again.
