Page 46 of Burn for You

“Anyway, change of subject. I was thinking maybe we could go for a night out.”

“You, and me?” I ask. I like Leo, he’s charming, but that’s a no from me.

“I’m flattered, but no, I mean everyone. My firm is working security at an event in one of Sorrento’s big clubs tonight. Road trip?”

“I thought you’re not working anymore?”

“I’m not, not really. But I still know everything that my own firm is doing, and when I heard about the event, I thought it’d be a perfect excuse to get out and about for a night.” He raises his brows in question.

When Leo showed up back in Ruby Cove months ago, no one knew why. He owns a high-level security firm in Sorrento, but he hasn’t spoken a word about it since being here. None of us knowwhat happened to bring him back here, but I’m not one to know enough about him to ask.

My body tingles at the idea of a proper night out. “You’re going to have to convince the love birds to come out of their cave.”

He winks at me. “That’s why I asked you first.”

Maisie peters’voice floats from the speakers in Caio’s Ferrari. All of us girls piled in when he arrived at the bar at the end of my shift. The guys went with Leo, he’s driving in front of Caio leading the way to tonight's spot.

“Thank god Leo suggested this. I feel like we needed a night like this. You especially.” Marina looks over to me.

“Hey!”

Isla turns around from where she’s sitting shotgun, her hand entwined with Caio’s over the console. “She just means you could do with a night of fun.”

“Exactly,” Marina nods.

“After being locked up in Gargamel's lair, you mean?” I say.

“It can’t be that bad,” Caio says.

His eyes fix back on the road when three heads snap in his direction.

“Have you met your best friend?” I ask.

“I have.”

“Ever tried to live with him?”

“Can’t say that I have.”

“Case in point. You can go back to driving now.”

Isla giggles before pressing a kiss to their joined hands. “We need to find you somewhere more permanent.”

“A hotel isn’t going to be any more permanent,” Marina says. “Plus, was no one else there when Rafael pretty much demanded you stay with him instead of Heath?”

“Yeah, what was that about?” Isla asks, looking over at Caio, but he doesn’t utter a word. He doesn’t even so much as breathe.

“How much is one of those motorbikes you got, Marina?” I look over at her.

“Not in your price range, blondie.”

“Don’t you start.”

“Why are you asking?” Isla says.

“That way I could move out to Heath’s and have a way into town.”

“You’d be better off affording a car than one of those things Marina’s got,” Caio chimes in.

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