Page 71 of The Revenge You Seek
"Doesn't look like it was much fun to me. You need patching up?"
"Nah, we're good. Just need a plate of your pancakes and we'll be good as new."
"Damn shame to cover those beautiful bodies in bruises if you ask me," she mutters, walking us over to our usual booth in the back.
"The ladies love it, Nanna."
"Speaking of the ladies. Anyone special for me to meet yet?"
Devin throws his head back and laughs. "You know me, Nanna. I'm sowing my oats wide and far."
"Yeah, just make sure none of them grow into anything." She quirks a knowing brow at him.
"I wrap it, Nanna. Don't sweat it."
"And you?" she turns her eyes on me.
"Nah, sorry to disappoint."
"Still hanging out with the hoes, huh?"
Devin snorts at her words.
That's the thing about Hallie, she knows everything. Even the shit we don't tell her, and we tell her a lot.
"Yeah, something like that."
I think back to the night before and my need to tell her about Letty almost forces the words out of my mouth, but I can't, so I swallow them down and keep my mask firmly in place.
"You'll find her again," she whispers to me, squeezing my shoulder.
See. Knows fucking everything.
"You want the regular?"
"You got it, Nanna H." Devin rubs his belly, grinning up at her, making her cheeks blush.
She disappears off leaving us alone.
There are a few other customers, but none are paying us any attention as we sit in our dark corner.
"I missed her," Devin says after a few seconds. "Why couldn't she have been our nanna?"
"Because she's too nice? Anyone that sweet doesn't have Harris blood in them."
"Hey, I'm as fucking sweet as they come and you know it."
I stare at him with a blank expression thinking of all the less than sweet things I've witnessed him do over the years.
"Oh yeah. How about you ask those who are long dead and buried if they think you're sweet."
"Just my job, man. I'm a fucking teddy bear under all that. All the girls want to hug me."
"And then they come fuck me."
He flips me off as one of Hallie's servers brings us some coffee over.
The girl's young, probably a sophomore, maybe a junior at Harrow Creek High and the second we both look at her, she flushes from head to toe.
