Mandy knocked on my door that night and told me that I had a visitor. I swung my feet from the bed and sat up. Tray? No. She wouldn’t have called him a visitor. It wasn’t Brian. She would’ve been scared. “Who is it?”
She shrugged. “I don’t know, but he’s hot. Like really, really hot.”
I caught the shadows under her eyes, the ones that weren’t from the dark hallway. “You okay?”
She didn’t answer. “Dylan’s staying over.” Then she walked into her room and shut the door.
I frowned at her bedroom door a moment and saw the light turn off. When had that happened? Then I shook my head. Maybe it was best if I didn’t ask. When I got downstairs, I stopped on the last step.
It was Jace.
He was dressed in dark clothing. I grinned. “If you’re going for dark and deadly, mission accomplished.”
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