“He’s not good, Jax.” Rome jerked his head toward the bedroom. “Maybe you should try and talk to him.”
“Is he losing it?” Jax scrambled to his feet.
“Losing faith, anyway. Gigi, you were right. The fury finally ran out.”
“I told y’all it would.”
We trooped back to the boys’ bedroom, where Rome sat on Jax’s bed. One look at Kerry’s face and I stayed next to Rome. Even looking as if his soul had flown out of him, Kerry was dangerous.
Jax wasn’t so wary. He sat down on the end of his bed.
“Too close.” Kerry half-heartedly shoved Jax’s hip with his sock foot. “Go away.”
Jax didn’t budge except to pull Gigi down to sit on his lap.
“Dude,” he said, “what’s going through your head?”
It took a coupla minutes, and Jax had to prod him some more before he finally caved.
“What if she falls for him?”
“Who?Darius?!” Jax traded a look with Gigi. “Do you really believe she’s so fickle, she’ll fall for the guy who kidnapped her? An enemy who took her away from her friends and the guy shedoeslove?”
“What does fickle mean?” Kerry asked.
“Wishy-washy.”
“Nah, she’s not that.” Kerry heaved a sigh. “She said he bought her yarn and crochet hooks so she wouldn’t be bored.”
“If he’s the honorable man Mingo said he is, it goes against his principles to use an innocent girl as a hostage,” Jax reasoned. “He’s being nice to her because he feels guilty about it.”
“He told her she talks too much.”
Gigi’s hand flew up to her mouth to hide her smile, and I bit my bottom lip for the same reason.
“She probably does. Whining and pestering him to let her go, or prattling on and on about you or books or you or music or you.”
Jax’s humor bounced off Kerry as we all knew it would. He was quiet for a second, then, with his eyes full of child-like hurt, he looked up at Jax.
“She called him by his name and said he was sweet,” he whispered.
Ah. The most grievous wound.
“Come on, dude. She’s been with him a few days. She wouldn’t keep calling him Mr. Djinni, would she?” Jax smiled. “Besides, even if he falls for her, that doesn’t mean she has to love him back.”
“Lilas said she ‘kithed’ you a lot in your dream,” Rome spoke up. “That doesn’t sound like she’s ready to ditch you for him. You shouldn’t doubt her.”
I choked on a giggle at his impersonation of Lilas’ lisp.
“Oh, yeah. That dream.” Kerry rubbed his chest with one hand.
I grinned.
Musta been a real good dream to make his taint flare up!
“I can’t believe you’re worried about this now,” Jax groused. “She had guys all over her at the Sanctuary, and you were never jealous.”
“What do you mean, she had guys all over her?”
