Page 38 of Night Wedding
Lucas put his guitar on his stand and studied me. “Can vampires get screwed up drinking tainted blood or something? And it makes you hallucinate?”
“Cut the shit, Lucas,” I spat, my patience wearing thin. “I admitted you got me, so it’s time to call it off and admit that it was the two of you.”
“Step back a minute.” Sebastian took two steps closer to me. “What did you do?”
“About what?” I asked.
“About this woman in your room,” he clarified.
I snorted. “I told her to get the hell out. In fact, I escorted her to the door to make sure she left.”
Sebastian’s eyes widened. He rubbed his beard. “You kicked your fiancée out of her own house?”
I threw my drumsticks down and my hands up. They were too much sometimes. “Not cool, man. You know damn well that isn’t true or funny. Myactualfiancée isn’t going to think so either. You’re taking it too far, and it’s time to end it.”
Lucas and Sebastian exchanged worried glances, probably about me catching on to their ruse sooner than they expected.
Sebastian turned to me. “Diego, we’re not joking at all,” he said in a slow and measured tone. “Let’s start at the beginning, and you can tell us everything.”
Lucas added, “First question: Who do you think you’re engaged to?”
That was it. “I’m not going to sit here for an interrogation and play out every detail of what happened for your amusement.” I stood and headed for the stairs. “Practice is over. You both need to grow up and figure out when to quit.”
As I took the stairs two at a time, they followed me.
“Where are you going?” Sebastian asked.
“Away from my immature roommates.” Sundown couldn’t come soon enough, so I could get the hell away from them.
I dashed up to my room with them behind me. They knocked, trying to get me to talk.
“Leave me alone.” I locked the door and drowned them out with music.
They took the hint.
While I waited for sundown, I thought about last night. Diana had brought up us moving in to a place together. I’d mentioned waiting until we were married as we’d have something to look forward to.
“Yes, I should start to plan our wedding,” she’d said with a smile. “I have a lot of things to figure out.”
“I can help, babe,” I’d said.
“No, it’s fine. Go to work and we’ll meet up tomorrow. I might have more answers for us then.”
When we’d meet up again later after sundown, maybe I should reconsider waiting to move in with her and go for it now. After all, if my roommates were going to behave like this inviting random women to violate my living space, then they weren’t the friends I’d thought they were.
Chapter 11
Nova
Back in my apartment, I wandered through my living room. Holy bats, what had happened? How could he be so cruel like that? If it was a game, it wasn’t funny.
I paced before my couch, trying to sort it out. Nothing made sense.
Wringing my hair into a twist, I let it fall over my shoulders and then twisted it again. I picked up the phone to call Gianna but almost dropped it as my hands were trembling. No, I put it down. I was tired of bothering her with my concerns about Diego lately. After all, everything I’d worried about had been dead wrong.
She knew all this, though. Maybe she could be my voice of reason.
Ah, what the heck. I called her. My voice was shaky when I greeted her.
