“What’re you doing here?”
“What? I can’t just drop by anymore now that you’ve got a new friend?” The jackass grinned.
“Funny! What’s up?” I got up and pulled on the lightweight down vest that I’d thrown over the back of my chair as he stood there smirking at me.
“Nothing’s up. I got bored. Where are you going?”
“Come.”
Not like I was going to shake him anyway. I wasn’t doing much, just making a quick stop since the Alden woman wasn’t answering her phone. I’m not afraid of her going around me, the woman had taken her kid out of school after all, but I needed to make sure all the same. “Wait here.” Of course, he didn’t, not once he realized I was going to the twins’ room and not Gianna’s.
We could hear the three of them from outside the door, laughing. She was laughing. The sound rushe
