Page 76 of Feed Your Fiends

“Did you want to chat about your mother throwing herself at my father before the play? You know, before Gant humiliated you again.”

“I stopped her in time…” I mumble.

“She would’ve thrown her legs around his waist if she could.”

“Look, do you know how they know each other?”

Sylo picks up a raspberry lemon tart, pressing his finger into it before tossing it back onto the tray. He’s done it to allthe raspberry lemon tarts his mother loves.

“Probably fucked at some point,” he says dismissively.

Jaime would never cheat on Jarett, but Sylo doesn’t know that. Does that mean he doesn’t know about Jarett at all? But The Watering Hole…

“Oh, when they were teens or something?”

Sylo snorts. “Probably last month. Last week…”

I look at Delphine. “Your father cheats on your mum?”

“Yours doesn’t? They always do. This,” he uses another tart to gesture around the room, “gets boring fast.”

“Is that why he isn’t here to meet his nephew? Too boring?”

“He’s an orphan and an only child. Family doesn’t mean as much to him as it does to my mother. She never got over her sister not forgiving her. This little reunion with Gant is her dream, no one else's.”

An only child?So, he doesn’t know about Jarett?

I grab a tart, one he hasn’t touched, and he does the same, reaching for another raspberry lemonade, but before he does, he tucks a long lock behind his ear, and I see a headphone.

“You’ve been listening to music this whole time?”

“Did you think I could take more than twenty minutes on a memory lane I’ve travelled down fifty times before?”

So, Delphine always spoke about her and Marisol’s past? It isn’t news to Sylo?

“What are you listening to?”

“A rock band.”

“I love rock. There’s this indie band from the late nineties, That Night.” I search his face, but he looks at me blankly.

“Are they any good?”

“Yeah, they just had a small concert at the Watering Hole.”

“What’s the Watering Hole?”

“You’ve never been there?”

He smiles. “Maybe my height makes you forget that I’m in the year below you.”

“You don’t have a fake ID?” All rich kids do.

“To get into the Watering Hole if it’s legit? No. It worked well enough for Stassi and Zedd’s party, though, until Hale kicked me and my horsemen out.”

The Watering Hole would accept a sticker of the anime character Sesshomaru, Sylo’s likeness, and let him through. If he didn’t know that, then he didn’t know Harod or the bar.

“You have horsemen?”

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