Page 41 of Taming the Beasts
I did say that. I’d wanted us all to be on the same page and we finally were. But for some reason I still felt uneasy. I thought about what Emma said about Huxleypossibly knowing Kebe. “How did you know so much about the coin? Emma and Grudge both looked it up online and couldn’t find anything.”
“Oh, yeah.” She swatted her hand through the air. “My daddy knows the curator from the museum it was stolen from. Did I forget to mention that?”
“You definitely forgot to mention that,” Emma said.
“Sorry, it’s just that they usually keep important relics and stuff under wraps. No one wants to be the curator that let a relic slip out of their grasp. I wasn’t supposed to say anything. My daddy is a curator too and curators talk and he happened to let it slip to me. And you know how it goes.”
I didn’t realize that curators were a bunch of gossips.
“Well, what about Zoey’s boyfriends? It seems like you knew so much about them.”
“No Iassumedso much about them. Based off of things I’d heard and seen in movies and stuff. And you know what they say when people assume. It makes an ass out of you and me.”
“I’ve never heard that before,” Emma said.
“You know like…ass, the letter u, and me? It spells assume.”
“Okay then.” Emma looked at me to keep the questioning going.
But I wasn’t really sure what else to ask. I still didn’t trust Kebe. And I’d rather ask King about the coin. “Well…” my voice trailed off. “How do you use the coin?” I wanted to see what she said then cross reference it with King. “We want to show the guys today.”
“It’s an incantation of sorts,” Kebe said. “Don’t worry about that, I’ll say the words. But don’t you think it would be better to surprise the guys with it? Like maybe a big party. Oh! We could throw it here. Or at the bank?”
Banks weren’t really for parties. And my boyfriends wouldn’t want a bunch of people there snooping around. After all, they’d just been robbed. By me. But still. “Um…”
“We’re going to tell them all today at lunch,” Emma said.
“That’s such a mistake,” Kebe said. “Let’s throw a rager and tell them there.”
That was a freaking terrible idea. They wouldn’t even be able to hear us over the music. “This seems like more of an intimate thing…”
Kebe shook her head. “The bigger the better. I can work on a guest list.”
What the hell?She was new to town. She didn’t even know anyone but us. Who was she throwing this rager for exactly? “No, we’ve already decided to tell them at lunch.” I didn’t really care what Kebe thought about this. And I didn’t want her to get in my head about this again. I also wanted to know this incantation myself. Hopefully King knew it. “If you’ll excuse me for a few minutes, I have to go hop on MyFanatics and tell all my followers that I’m done camming.”
“Oh, you’re giving it up?” Kebe asked. “Did your boyfriends make you? I’ve heard that cats are very territorial.”
First furballs and now cats? “They’re werecats, Kebe. It’s entirely different.”I think.
“If you say so. Is Grudge going to be online watching? I’d love to come see your whole setup.”
She seemed really interested in my camming.Huh.I stared at Kebe. She desperately needed a hobby that didn’t involve flirting with Callum and Huxley. Maybe I could kill two birds with one stone. “Actually, I really don’t want to have to shut it down. I’d rather find someone to take it over for me. I mean…I have so many subscribers. It seems like a waste to just throw it all away. Would you be interested?”
“Oh. Um…” her voice trailed off.
“Not that it’s about all the follows and stuff,” I said. “It’s just fun. It’s such a thrill. Whether you have ten followers or hundreds of thousands.”
Kebe’s jaw dropped. “That many people watch?”
I nodded.
“Maybe Emma can do it,” Kebe said.
Emma laughed. “Callum would murder anyone I spoke to.”
“You’re right,” she said. “He’s so possessive. It’s hot.”
So when Callum was possessive it was hot? But when my boyfriends were possessive they were just being territorial cats? What the hell?
