Leilani.
The first time I was paid my salary at the end of the month, I had tried to get a Saint Laurent shoe from a middleman named Joe, and maybe I was still so stupid because who the fuck gets things from someone with the name; 'Joe.'?
But that aside, I paid about five thousand dollars— another mistake— for the shoe, only to get some filthy thing from Walmart the next day.
Soooo moral of the story is: you should understand how devastated I was. How utterly miserable I felt after learning that I had just been scammed…
And that is exactly how I felt when Zevran pulled the door open and Caelum and Kael rushed in, both panting like they'd just run a marathon. Both cursing under their breaths because apparently, we had left them outside for a little too long.
When their eyes snagged on mine, they froze and then Caelum exhaled deeply, his chest rising and falling rapidly as he hissed through gritted teeth; "You're safe."
