Chapter 7
Though she had Simon and Seth to protect her, everyone decided Claire’s apartment was their best haven from Celeste. They had no doubts Celeste knew where it was—she’d found them at Antonio’s without the bond, so clearly she’d known all along where he was—but it held the advantage to being impenetrable for her as long as Claire refrained from extending an invitation. She still had the defenses Sosata had given her in place too.
Still, it felt more than a little weird letting two men into her place at almost two in the morning.
“It’s not much,” she apologized when she flicked on the light. Mild disarray greeted them, the shoes she’d decided not to wear lying discarded behind the overstuffed chair she’d had since college, her laptop resting on the coffee table where she’d tried
