Page 36 of Burn for You

“So?” Gianna asks.

“You’re going to have fun with him.”

“Oh,” she chuckles. “I’m not the one who’s supposed to be mentoring him.”

I laugh sarcastically. “It’s a pity he has to start learning how to work with a team out on the floor.”

It’s a weak excuse, I could start him in the kitchen straight off the bat, but I don’t want to. So I’m sending him out front.

Her face drops. “You’re a prick.”

I shrug. “Have fun.”

“Well,don’t you look like you’ve been hit by a truck.”

I glare at Leo who’s sitting lazily on Caio’s couch. “When are you going back to the city?”

“Keep pretending you hate me; we all know you’re happier since I got here.”

Heath and Caio frown looking over at him. “Yeah, actually he started getting grumpy just as you showed up,” Heath says.

“Oh shut up,” Leo says. “You’re forgetting that I showed up days after a certain blonde that’s now living in his pockets.” He pours me a glass of whiskey as I sit down next to him, sinking into the plush cushions of Caio’s expensive couch.

Boys’ night is exclusively held at Caio’s apartment at Hotel Dolce. We used to alternate, but at some point, we ended up coming here every time. There’s something about looking out over Ruby Cove at the end of the week that creates the ideal atmosphere for the perfect balance of a little shit talking, and a little vulnerability.

“How’s that all going?” Caio asks cautiously. I just sigh. “That well?”

I swallow down my whiskey and motion for Leo to pass me the bottle.

“It’s fine,” I grumble. “I’ve only lived with one other female, Marisol. She was never so…nosy.”

“Yeah well, she had nothing to be nosy about, she’s your sister.”

“You missing her right about now?” Leo asks, a hand on my shoulder.

“We all knowyouare,” Caio chuckles, raising his eyebrows at our friend.

“I missed Marisol before I even met her,” Leo says wistfully.

I bump him in the shoulder. “Lucky she’d never go for you, huh?”

“One day. I’m waiting for the day she breaks up with that twat from the city, and then it’ll be my time to shine.”

Heath looks between us all. “What am I missing here?”

Sometimes I forget Heath hasn’t always been around. There’s so much that I forget he doesn’t know about us, but from the day he moved here he so seamlessly slotted in with us that I forget he ever wasn’t around.

“Leo has been in love with Raf’s sister since the day he met her,” Caio says. “But she’s currently tangled up with her agent in the city.”

I can’t help the way my face breaks into a frown at the mention of my sister's horrible boyfriend Jack. The guy’s a sleaze, anyone could tell you that Marisol could do so much better than that guy.

Leo nods. “She’s got bad judgment right now, but she’s an angel.”

“And you’re Lucifer,” I add.

He shrugs. “Perfect match.”

I roll my eyes. “Okay enough of that.”

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