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“Right or wrong, good or bad, a man who looks like a Greek god squires you into the most romantic restaurant in Phoenix, it’s gonna put a pep in your step,” Luna remarked.
Totally.
“He fucks you so senseless you go to work with sex hair, stamped official,” Raye added.
She was so right.
Willow grabbed my other hand. “I love that you and Javi had all that this weekend.”
“I love it too,” I whispered.
We all sat with that for long moments, all of us loving it (though none of them more than me).
However, since it wasn’t all about me, I looked to Raye. “Are you and Cap okay?”
“Well, I did manage to retain my snit while fucking him stupid because he’s such a kickass badass, but I couldn’t sustain it after he made me Nutella and toasted almond crepes for breakfast and brought them to me in bed yesterday morning. So, yeah, we’re good.”
“Awesome play on his part,” Shanti remarked.
“Word,” Raye agreed.
“Javi and I decided to avoid any talk around Trev, Kev and what happened on Saturday,” I informed them. “It’d kill the vibe. So does anyone know if anything is happening with that?”
“Well, first, a bit of SC news,” Jessie declared.
I looked at her, but Raye spoke.
“Tito took Luna aside this morning and told her they hired Dream.”
Uh-oh.
I turned my attention to Luna. “You okay with that?”
She shrugged. “Tito said she’s going to do half shifts both Saturday and Sunday. He also said Tex only agreed to this if she had a probation period.”
I wasn’t sure what I was getting from her, but whatever it was, I was more confused by it than just not knowing what it was.
“That doesn’t seem out of hand,” I noted carefully.
“Her probation period lasts four hours, on Saturday,” Luna explained. “Tex is coming in, and if she doesn’t pass muster in those four hours, she’s gone.”
I gawked, because, I mean, even Dream couldn’t learn the ropes in four hours.
“Everyone needs a training period,” I said. “Even Dream.”
“Tex says that no one needs to be trained in how to be nice,” Jessie shared through a snicker.
“Not sure how he’d know, since he’s such a grump,” Willow mumbled.
That was the truth.
“Okay, so if you’re okay with that,” I aimed this at Luna, who gave me a reassuring nod, and then to the rest at the whole group, I asked, “What about the bad guys the boys took in on Saturday, or word about Kev?”
“Unsurprisingly, nothing from the guys. They’re zipped up tight. Though, they haven’t stopped the bodyguard thing, so we figure that means they haven’t solved the case. And Luna got an interesting text from Ally yesterday,” Jessie said.
Ally?
“Ally Nightingale?” I asked.