Keith smirked at me. “Don’t flatter yourself. I already told you I was over you.”
“Right. So, I’m supposed to think that you two being here together is a coincidence?” I lifted my chin in Gio’s direction. He was unusually quiet for someone who had always been mouthy around me. His face was red and he couldn’t meet my eyes. “I’ll believe that when Gio there gets over his obsession with Tate.”
Keith’s features turned stony, his eyes cold as it did when he was about to smack me. “Don’t let me get my hands on you Bryan or is that what you want? You missing the way I used to fuck you hard enough to make you scream? Now I’m inclined to think your new partner ain’t doing the job right. You know where to find me if you’re unsatisfied.”
Jeremy tapped me on the shoulder. “We should go, Bryan or you’ll be late for work.”
Keith wolf-whistled at Jeremy, stripping him right there while he assessed the slender man from head to toe. “Who’s your new friend, Bryan?” he asked. “Why don’t you bring him along with you? That’s something I’d like to break in but you’re already quite trained, aren’t you honey?”
Jeremy batted his fake lashes at Keith and gave him a sweet smile. “Darling, should you be so lucky.” He tugged on my arm. “Let’s go.”
My attention focused on Gio, I couldn’t resist getting one last jab at them. “I know you two are up to something. You might have Tate fooled but not me. I’d stay away if I were you.”
The day was officially ruined. We returned to our table but just to pay our bill, so we could go. If the restaurant where I worked wasn’t close by I would have been late.
“Don’t let them get to you,” Jeremy told me. “They are just distractions for you. Focus on Tate and bridging that gap you told me about.”
I thanked him and wished I could offer him advice on his relationship with his boyfriend, but I was too upset to think straight. I hurried along the streets, almost running at times to get back to the restaurant on time. I arrived with five minutes to spare and as I entered, I ran into a woman who was just leaving.
“I’m so sorry,” I apologized because I had been the one rushing which caused the accident.
“That’s fine.”
The voice sounded distantly familiar but the woman was already walking away before I could get a good glance at her. I didn’t move from the door but watched her, trying like hell to remember who she reminded me of. My mind was already too messed up from my encounter with Gio and Keith for me to remember. But then she turned, looking back at me and it was clear.
She was the same woman from the cemetery. The look in her eyes settled uneasily in my stomach. Too many coincidences. What the hell was going on and what had she been doing here at the restaurant? I was tempted to go after her and demand an explanation, but she was already walking away, and I was almost late getting back on shift.