Page 148 of Burn It Down

It was a work in progress, especially for Asher, but it had inspired this surprise.

Jonah: Yule log. Got it, Pretty. Chill.

Killian: Even those tiny roast potatoes, extra crunchy ones that had all that cheese on it that Asher was all for?

Asher: They’re like cheesy fries.

I grinned. Those two and their fast food.

Jonah: Got it all. We’re good to go. You’re gonna need to chill, or she’s gonna pick up on it.

Asher: Seconded. You know how in tune she is with us.

Jonah: Can’t get a thing by her.

Killian: Outside of this, you better not be trying to get anything by her.

Jonah: Relax, little puppy, there’s nothing.

That stupid-ass nickname had started up about three weeks ago and it hadn’t stopped since.

Killian: I told you to stop calling me that.

Asher: Difficult to do when you most definitely are that when it comes to her.

Jonah: LMFAO. Jeez, I just spilled some cranberry sauce, you funny fuckers.

Asher: You brought it up. Bryce is missing. He’s supposed to be out by the pool to assist with that last thing.

Jonah: He’s here in the kitchen. I needed a taste-tester for something.

Asher: Hurry it up. We have twenty minutes.

Killian: How do you know that?

Asher: How do you think?

Killian: Fuck, you’re still tracking us, surveilling us, or whatever the hell?

Asher: Always will be. Your safety above all.

All right, seeing as though I knew that was the reason now, nothing based in manipulation or his puppet mastering like it was before.

Killian: That’s how you knew I went to meet my mom before I got the chance to tell you all?

Asher: Yes.

Killian: I’m surprised you let it happen without sending a half a dozen bodyguards along.

Asher: She only still held the slight potential of being a threat.

Killian: And she disproved that completely.

Asher: Yes.

Killian: Maybe next time we do something big like this, she can be a part of it too?

Asher: There’s a strong possibility.

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