Rogue-ARC (46 page)

“Sorry,” I said.

“You owe me.” She smiled faintly then.

“We’ll just have to see. It’s been a while. Er, Chelsea’s going to be home.”

“No she’s not. I already spoke to her about that. Promised to skin her if she was home before midnight.”

“Oh? How did she respond to that?”

“Said she’d do anything to help a potential stepmother, and didn’t need a threat.”

“Stepmother . . . this is moving way too fast.”

“So deal with it.”

She delivered that with a predatory grin.

I have no idea where this will go. There was nothing in my training to cover this, and it’s all up to me.

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