Page 114 of Wolf Cursed
Isaac’s expression lit with understanding. “Oh, shit, sis. No way.”
He looked more amused than worried, but still, my nerves twisted.
“Idrissa,” I said.
She sighed. “Remember how I told you I made a deal with Silas to keep you from fighting for a little longer?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, if he held up his end—” She hesitated. “—I promised him a date.”
“A date,” I repeated. “With you?”
“Yes. Ugh.”
She made a face, and my eyes widened.
“Silas…likes you?”
“Oh, gross, don’t say it like that,” she wailed.
I pressed my lips together to keep from laughing. But watching Idrissa freak out was sort of like watching Isaac have a normal day. Super dramatic and entertaining.
“You don’t have to do it, sis,” Isaac said. “We can find another way.”
“Yeah, but this way is more entertaining,” Kai said, trying to hold back a laugh of his own.
Without lifting her head from the couch cushion where she’d buried it, Idrissa flipped Kai off.
He snickered just as the doorbell rang.
“Pizza’s here,” Isaac said.
Kai got up and paid for the food while Idrissa pulled herself together so she could call Silas and plan their date.
Kai returned a moment later with pizza in one hand and a soda in the other. Isaac pouted at that.
“No beer?” he asked.
“In the fridge if you want it,” Kai told him.
Isaac and Idrissa both disappeared into the kitchen for drinks.
“Here,” Kai told me. “Someone told me you don’t drink.”
“Thanks.” I took the soda and noticed he’d grabbed one for himself too. “None for you either?”
He shook his head as he cracked his can open. “My dad and yours have that in common,” he explained. “Looks like so do we. Cheers?” He held up his soda, and I did the same, clinking our cans together.
“Cheers,” I said, feeling strangely bonded by our matching drink choices.
Afterward, we ate pizza and plotted exactly how we were going to do this mission in the middle of a thunderstorm that bordered on hurricane and with Idrissa trying not to throw up during her date-slash-distraction.
When the food was gone, the rain started.
I looked at Kai across the table just as lightning flashed through the window behind his head. “It’s time,” I said.
He nodded, the look in his eye criminalistic yet panty-melting. “Let’s do this.”
