Page 38 of Look at Her and Die

Kind of, maybe.

Both of them had the same mother, but different fathers.

Aella’s father, Cakes, just found out that she was his, as a matter of fact.

“I feel like I should go order food.” Milena stood up and said, “You want anything, sugar pie?”

Cutter shot his wife a look. “Don’t call me that.”

“Snookums?” She batted her eyelashes.

“No.”

“Toots?” she pushed.

“Milena Clayborne…” he growled.

Milena walked off, giggling.

“She didn’t get your order,” I said around a mouthful of the best sandwich I’d ever tasted in my life.

I had no clue I had a thing for grilled cheeses until I came here.

Now, I couldn’t imagine going a single day without one.

“I feel like, possibly, it was me,” Silver said. “I think we passed her on the road.”

I frowned. “We did?”

“Yeah.” Silver nodded. “When we were riding. Thanks for the ride, by the way. I have to ask Webber if he’ll take a look at my car when he gets back in town.”

I thought about that for a long moment then decided that her being on the back of my bike couldn’t be why she was mad. Hell, there were times I wondered if she even saw me as a man.

I looked up and spotted Milena at the counter with Searcy.

Searcy was writing on a notepad with one hand, and digging at her chest, between her breasts, with the other.

I frowned and watched harder.

Searcy lifted her shirt slightly, and I saw a glint at her navel just before her forearm snaked up the inside of her shirt and started to fidget with her chest again.

She came back out with a round wire.

“What the fuck was that?” I asked.

“What?” everyone asked at once.

“She just pulled some sort of metal contraption out from under her shirt,” I said. “It’s in her hand.”

“That’s an underwire, dummy.” Silver snickered. “Most bras have underwires. Sometimes if you wear the bra a lot, the wires will poke through the fabric and start digging into your skin. She probably pulled it out because it was gouging her.”

“Oh.” I felt kind of stupid.

Logically, I’d known that there was some sort of support in bras, but I hadn’t realized that they were metal.

Jesus.

There was laughter at the counter, and when I looked up, Milena was pulling out her phone and showing Searcy something.

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